Tarzan the Tiger
About Tarzan the Tiger
Tarzan, Jane, and Albert Werper go after the jewels of Opar to save the Greystoke estates. Werper is working with the slave trader Achmet Zek, who wants the gold and means to sell Jane. A cave-in hits Tarzan on the head. He forgets who he is and treats the jewels as pebbles. A later blow brings his memory back. He beats the trader, takes the jewels, and gets Jane out. Frank Merrill plays Tarzan. Natalie Kingston plays Jane. Al Ferguson is billed with them. Henry MacRae directed the Universal serial.
Cast & crew
More about Tarzan the Tiger
Ford Beebe wrote it from Edgar Rice Burroughs’s novel Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. Carl Laemmle and MacRae produced it. Wilfred M. Cline photographed it. Sheldon Lewis, Paul Panzer, and Lillian Worth are billed. The release date carried with this record is 9 December 1929. The serial is listed at 15 chapters and 266 minutes. It was once treated as lost. A copy later turned up.
Themes
Making
MacRae shot a chapter-play of the Opar jewels, with Merrill as Tarzan and Kingston as Jane, for Universal’s serial unit.
Look
Wilfred M. Cline shot the cave-in and the jewel rooms.
Preservation
Once treated as lost. A copy has been found and is in the public domain.
Notes
- The amnesia comes from one blow. A second blow ends it.
- Werper poses as a friend and is already tied to Achmet Zek.
- An Internet Archive copy is filed as PublicDomainTarzantheTiger.
- A Commons file uses the 1929 title.
Scenes
- The cave-in drops rock on Tarzan and he no longer knows the jewels.
- A second blow returns his name.
- He takes Jane back from Achmet Zek.
Influenced by
- Edgar Rice Burroughs’s novel Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Also available
- Internet Archive (PublicDomainTarzantheTiger)
- Wikimedia Commons (Tarzan the Tiger (1929).webm)
