delgadosaur wrote:
JJ, name one moment of the Tarzan series that is on par with Kong? Just one and it better be biggerthan the big sequences in Kong. Can you even name all of the MGM Tarzan films, such is their wild popularity? Meanwhile the Bond series is simply the most successful franchise in film history.

Robert and Wich, the debate is over if all you have left are insults.


Del, as usual when you "debate" anyone on any topic, the goalposts are hopping around like a cat on a hot roof; we are not talking about individual setpieces in the Tarzan films or about which franchise is the most successful one, but about whether or not the Tarzan films were A-pictures and were their era's closest equivalent to the Bond films; there's been ample evidence on this thread to show that they were. And, as for insults, you're the one who can't debate anyone without either giving off obnoxious "shrugs," rudely telling people "LOL, c'mon," "yawn," or "give me a break," insinuating that your opponents are all miserable old fogeys, or screaming that "everyone in the world thinks the same way I do, except for the cranks on this thread!" None of these tactics are actually debating ploys, and are a lot more offensive than anything anyone else has said to you in response.

By the way, I can name, off the top of my head, not only all of the MGM Tarzans, but all of the Tarzan features produced by MGM, Lesser, and Weintraub until Weintraub took the franchise to TV:

Tarzan the Ape Man
Tarzan and his Mate
Tarzan Escape
Tarzan Finds a Son
Tarzan's Secret Treasure
Tarzan's New York Adventure
Tarzan Triumphs
Tarzan's Desert Mystery
Tarzan and the Amazons
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Tarzan and the Huntress
Tarzan and the Mermaids
Tarzan's Magic Fountain
Tarzan's Savage Fury
Tarzan and the Slave Girl
Tarzan's Peril
Tarzan and the She-Devil
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Tarzan and the Trappers
Tarzan's Fight for Life
Tarzan and the Lost Safari
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure
Tarzan the Magnificent
Tarzan's Three Challenges
Tarzan Goes to India
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
Tarzan and the Great River
Tarzan and the Jungle Boy

Then there are the color MGM remake version of Tarzan the Ape Man, Burroughs' serial The New Adventures of Tarzan and its feature versions, Sol Lesser's serial Tarzan the Fearless and its feature version, and Lesser's 1938 feature Tarzan's Revenge (Lesser, during the 1930s, was to the MGM Tarzan films what Kevin McClory was to the EON Bond films).

As for memorable setpieces in the Tarzan films (since you brought them up), there's the nightmarish scene with the pygmies and their killer gorilla in Tarzan the Ape Man, the fight with the giant crocodile in Tarzan and his Mate and the later incredible finale to that film (which has Tarzan leading elephants and apes to battle natives and lions), the Brooklyn Bridge sequence in Tarzan's New York Adventure, the large-scale battle between the Nazis and the denizens of the lost city in Tarzan Triumphs, the one-on-one showdown between Gordon Scott's Tarzan and Anthony Quayle's Slade at the end of Tarzan's Greatest Adventure, and too many others to run over here. If it hadn't been excised due to terrified reactions by theater patrons, we'd also be able to count the giant bat attack in Tarzan Escapes.




  


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