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Post by johnnypt on Oct 2, 2023 13:07:18 GMT -5
Part three is up, and yeah, John Derek’s love life is surprisingly prominent in the early part of the episode!
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Post by Jason Aiken on Jan 20, 2024 19:35:11 GMT -5
Legend of Tarzan shot straight to #1 on Netflix this weekend.
Sadly, it never received a follow-up but it's actually a really good stand-alone film that squeezed in a good bit of ERB-related elements paired with the historical period of King Leopold's Congo.
I rewatched it for the first time and it held up well.
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Post by johnnypt on Jan 20, 2024 19:42:39 GMT -5
Legend of Tarzan shot straight to #1 on Netflix this weekend. Sadly, it never received a follow-up but it's actually a really good stand-alone film that squeezed in a good bit of ERB-related elements paired with the historical period of King Leopold's Congo. I rewatched it for the first time and it held up well. On the one hand it’s a shame John Carter and Legend of Tarzan didn’t get enough attention (at least the good kind) as top notch Burroughs adaptations, but at least we have them.
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Post by almuric on Mar 7, 2024 11:28:37 GMT -5
But before we get back to Tarzan, an entertaining diversion.
Perils of Nyoka (1942) - Sequel to 1941's Jungle Girl, which is not, as the poster and credits claim, actually based on the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. The ERB novel of that name takes place in Cambodia and this is solidly in Hollywood Africa. And "sequel" is probably stretching the term, as this features, for legal reasons, a new last name for it's heroine, as well as a new father to replace the one who died in the first movie.
Kay Aldridge is Nyoka Gordon here, replacing Frances Gifford from the original. is searching for her lost father and the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates somewhere in North Africa (there's Italian authorities and a lost tribe of Tauregs). The villainess Vultura (great name!) is played by Lorna Gray, wearing the shortest dress I've seen in a 1940s movie, and served by a pet gorilla named Satan (Emil Van Horn). Did her parents name her "Vultura"? If so they doomed the poor girl to a life of villainy. Plotwise, this is a runaround, with the factions gaining and then losing the person/thing they need on a regular basis, with someone getting thrown in a deathtrap or falling off a cliff every 15 minutes or so. Director William Witney, responsible for many of the best serials ever made, keeps this one moving along briskly. Because this is a Republic Serial, there's some breathtakingly energetic stuntwork on display too.
One thing that struck me watching this for the second time was a scene near the end of Chapter 1, where Clayton Moore's character gets in a fight while armed with a scimitar and a revolver. For a moment you'd swear you were looking at El Borak. Now, Hollywood likely wouldn't have done a Conan serial (too expensive), but El Borak? Those old movie ranches would have been perfect for the hills of Turkey and Afghanistan. He even gets in a brief fight with an ape.
This was later retitled Nyoka and the Tigermen, presumably because of the striped robes the Tauregs wear because as ERB learned the hard way, there's no tigers in Africa. Perils of Nyoka was released on Blu-Ray a few years back but it's pricey and it doesn't seem to be on streaming, but you can watch it on YouTube.
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Post by johnnypt on Mar 7, 2024 13:37:05 GMT -5
But before we get back to Tarzan, an entertaining diversion. Perils of Nyoka (1942) - Sequel to 1941's Jungle Girl, which is not, as the poster and credits claim, actually based on the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. The ERB novel of that name takes place in Cambodia and this is solidly in Hollywood Africa. And "sequel" is probably stretching the term, as this features, for legal reasons, a new last name for it's heroine, as well as a new father to replace the one who died in the first movie. Kay Aldridge is Nyoka Gordon here, replacing Frances Gifford from the original. is searching for her lost father and the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates somewhere in North Africa (there's Italian authorities and a lost tribe of Tauregs). The villainess Vultura (great name!) is played by Lorna Gray, wearing the shortest dress I've seen in a 1940s movie, and served by a pet gorilla named Satan (Emil Van Horn). Did her parents name her "Vultura"? If so they doomed the poor girl to a life of villainy. Plotwise, this is a runaround, with the factions gaining and then losing the person/thing they need on a regular basis, with someone getting thrown in a deathtrap or falling off a cliff every 15 minutes or so. Director William Witney, responsible for many of the best serials ever made, keeps this one moving along briskly. Because this is a Republic Serial, there's some breathtakingly energetic stuntwork on display too. One thing that struck me watching this for the second time was a scene near the end of Chapter 1, where Clayton Moore's character gets in a fight while armed with a scimitar and a revolver. For a moment you'd swear you were looking at El Borak. Now, Hollywood likely wouldn't have done a Conan serial (too expensive), but El Borak? Those old movie ranches would have been perfect for the hills of Turkey and Afghanistan. He even gets in a brief fight with an ape. This was later retitled Nyoka and the Tigermen, presumably because of the striped robes the Tauregs wear because as ERB learned the hard way, there's no tigers in Africa. Perils of Nyoka was released on Blu-Ray a few years back but it's pricey and it doesn't seem to be on streaming, but you can watch it on YouTube. Briefly covered it in this episode, Burroughs never quite got the movies right:
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Post by Jason Aiken on Mar 30, 2024 20:49:33 GMT -5
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