Tarzan Goes to India (1962)

Directed by

John Guillermin

Genre

action film, adventure film

Country

United Kingdom, Switzerland, United States

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

NR

Rating

4.4 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Tarzan travels to India to help save a family of elephants from being killed by a dam construction. He faces off against local hunters and a hostile tribe while befriending a young boy and a woman veterinarian.

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What happens

Tarzan Goes to India (1962) is the first film featuring Jock Mahoney as Tarzan. The twenty-fourth film of the Tarzan film series that began with 1932's Tarzan the Ape Man, it was written by Robert Hardy Andrews and directed by John Guillermin, who also directed Tarzan's Greatest Adventure. The film also stars Indian Bollywood actors Feroz Khan, Simi Garewal and Murad in pivotal roles. It was followed by Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963) which was set in Thailand. It was one of two Mahoney films that took Tarzan out of Africa and sent him to the Far East. It was a co-production between Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Jock Mahoney had appeared as the villain Coy Banton in the previous Tarzan film, Tarzan the Magnificent. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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