Tarzan and the Great River

1967
G
1h 28m

IMDb RATING

5.3/10

449

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Mike Henry and Diana Millay in Tarzan and the Great River (1967)

Action Adventure

In Brazil, Dr. Ann Philips tries to inoculate the superstitious natives against an epidemic. The murderous Jaguar Men oppose the intrusion. The natives take heart when the riverboat captain'... Read allIn Brazil, Dr. Ann Philips tries to inoculate the superstitious natives against an epidemic. The murderous Jaguar Men oppose the intrusion. The natives take heart when the riverboat captain's helper Pepe volunteers for the first shot.In Brazil, Dr. Ann Philips tries to inoculate the superstitious natives against an epidemic. The murderous Jaguar Men oppose the intrusion. The natives take heart when the riverboat captain's helper Pepe volunteers for the first shot.

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IMDb RATING

5.3/10

449

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
In the second week of filming, Dinky the chimp bit Mike Henry on the jaw. It took 20 stitches to repair the wound. Henry had monkey fever delirium for three days, and took three weeks to recuperate. The chimp was destroyed and replaced. Henry later sued the production company for negligence. He won the suit, but the amount was not made public.

Goofs
The boat is traveling on a river in Brazil and come across a herd of hippopotamus in the river. Hippos are indigenous to Africa and therefore should not have appeared in a river in South America.

Quotes
Captain Sam Bishop: I don't get it! You mean you travel with a chimp and a lion?
Tarzan: I have my reasons.

Connections
Featured in Biography: Tarzan: The Legacy of Edgar Rice Burroughs (1996)

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Featured review

5/10

Mike and Rafer Deserved Better

The previous years' TARZAN AND THE VALLEY OF GOLD had the jungle-traipsing hero in a suit with a handgun, competing with the James Bond franchise and, in TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER, supposedly taking place in the Amazon instead of Africa, they're back to the jungle: although there is one rudimentary scene with Mike Henry's muscular yet monotone Tarzan wearing civilian clothes...

Mostly though, the story's centered so much on a maverick boat captain... played by game-show-host Jan Murray with child-actor Manuel Padilla Jr his first-mate sidekick... that GREAT RIVER is more like an attempt to spinoff another franchise from Tarzan... who mostly stands around giving both the captain and kid advice on growing up...

Meanwhile the token ingenue's pretty blonde Diana Millay as a doctor whose syringe scares the natives even more than the villain, played by black British actor Rafer Johnson, who supposedly cursed them to sickness...

So it's all down to one finale fight against Tarzan in a terrific looking exterior location of bamboo bridges built along a mountainside: which should have happened a lot sooner, and for much longer.