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Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)

Tarzan's Secret Treasure poster
Directed by
Richard Thorpe
Genre
adventure film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
6
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 82 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Tarzan and Jane protect their jungle home when outsiders come looking for treasure. The film follows their adventures as they fend off intruders.

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What happens

Tarzan's Secret Treasure is a 1941 American adventure film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan and Johnny Sheffield. Based on the Tarzan character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, it is the fifth in the MGM Tarzan series to feature Weissmuller and O'Sullivan. Original prints of the film were processed in sepiatone. The next film in the series would be Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942), the last in the series to feature Maureen O'Sullivan, and the last before the series moved to RKO. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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