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Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)

Tarzan Finds a Son! poster
Directed by
Richard Thorpe
Genre
adventure film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 104 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Tarzan and Jane adopt a young boy who is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the jungle. They raise him as their own while facing threats from outsiders who want to take him for their own purposes.

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What happens

Tarzan Finds a Son! is a 1939 Tarzan film based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was the fourth in the MGM Tarzan series to feature Johnny Weissmuller as the "King of the Apes" and the fourth of six films in which he stars with Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane; following this pairing was Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) and Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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