A doctor calls on Tarzan to topple the native witch doctor whose black magic remedies are killing patients.A doctor calls on Tarzan to topple the native witch doctor whose black magic remedies are killing patients.A doctor calls on Tarzan to topple the native witch doctor whose black magic remedies are killing patients.
Roy Glenn
- Native Chief
- (uncredited)
Paulene Myers
- Native Mother
- (uncredited)
Nick Stewart
- Molo
- (uncredited)
Milton Wood
- Temple Native
- (uncredited)
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- Writers
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- TriviaDuring African location filming with Miki Carter for this mostly studio-bound film, Gordon Scott got along well with some natives involved in the movie. A Masai warrior nicknamed him "Mtu Ule Na Panda Mitu Minegu" (Warrior Who Climbs Tall Trees).
- GoofsTartu is hacking away at a dugout canoe with a machete as though he has been building it and is just finishing it up. Only problem is, the canoe appears finished and is very weathered and gray in color, but on the very end where Tartu is shaving some wood off with his machete, he is revealing fresh pale wood color that stands out against the rest of the weathered wood. So he is clearly just pretending to be working on an old finished canoe.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Biography: Tarzan: The Legacy of Edgar Rice Burroughs (1996)
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A lot of critics have panned this movie as a poor Tarzan film ...I totally disagree...Gordon Scott is a magnificent Tarzan with a superman physique - just what the role demanded....Scott must save a tribal village from an evil witch doctor named Futa who hates Tarzan with a passion because Tarzan knows that the witch doctor's medicine is inferior to Dr. Carl Sturdy who is in the jungle trying to develop a serum to fight tropical infections....adding to the film is a romance between Dr. Sturdy's daughter (Jill Jarmyn) and her father's medical cohort. Movie was made in brilliant technicolor with very good lighting effects....Gordon Scott gives the Tarzan yell from a limb on a tree as Futa's henchmen try to attack and kill natives bringing supplies to Dr. Sturday...It should be mentioned that MGM inserted several ft of footage to this film from film from "Tarzan and the Lost Safari" also starring Scott.....Scott is by far the most athletic Tarzan of them all, the handsomest and best athlete for the role... Check out a scene where a 25 ft python is wrapped around Scott who is trying to protect Jane from attack....lots of good action scenes and lions and evil tribesman...standard fare for the day for a Tarzan movie....Scott introduces his son as "Tartu" and not "boy" for some strange reason in the film....James Edwards (the cook in "The Caine Mutiny") gives a good action job as the evil Futa.....I liked this Tarzan film a lot and one year later Scott starred in the classic "Tarzan's Greatest Adventure" with Anthony Quayle and a young Sean Connery of 007 fame.
- mhrabovsky6912
- Jan 10, 2010
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Tarzans Kampf ums Leben
- Filming locations
- Burney Falls, McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park - Highway 89, Burney, California, USA(Canoe goes over the waterfall)
- Production company
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,569,600
- Gross worldwide
- $4,458,100
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
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By what name was Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958) officially released in Canada in English?
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