Tarzan and the Golden Lion
About Tarzan and the Golden Lion
James Pierce plays Tarzan and Dorothy Dunbar plays Jane in J. P. McGowan's film of Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1923 novel. Frederick Peters is the villain Esteban Miranda. Edna Murphy plays Tarzan's sister Betty Greystoke, and Harold Goodwin plays Jack Bradley. Tarzan and the lion Jad-bal-ja go after a lost city of diamonds, where a lion-worshipping group means to sacrifice a woman from his household.
Cast & crew
More about Tarzan and the Golden Lion
William E. Wing adapted the novel. Joseph Walker photographed it. Film Booking Offices of America released it on 20 March 1927. Boris Karloff, in blackface, plays the tribesman Owaza. D'Arcy Corrigan plays Weesimbo and Robert Bolder plays John Peebles.
Themes
Making
Film Booking Offices released the picture in 1927. MGM's Johnny Weissmuller series began five years later, in 1932. McGowan, better known for railroad serials, directed.
Preservation
A complete print was found in the 1990s. The film is in the public domain in the United States, and a digital copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Pierce later married Edgar Rice Burroughs's daughter Joan.
- Harold Goodwin plays Jack Bradley.
- A complete print turned up in the 1990s. Before that the film was treated as lost.
- A digital copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Scenes
- Tarzan and Jad-bal-ja head for the city of diamonds.
- Karloff's Owaza appears among the lion-worshippers.
Influenced by
- Tarzan and the Golden Lion by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1923)
