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Tarzan's Peril is a 1951 film directed by Byron Haskin and starring Lex Barker as Tarzan and Virginia Huston as Jane, and featuring Dorothy Dandridge as "Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba." [2] [3] The fifteenth film of the Tarzan film series that began with 1932's Tarzan the Ape Man, some of it was shot in Kenya, making it the first Tarzan film to ...
Tarzan's Peril: Directed by Byron Haskin. With Lex Barker, Virginia Huston, George Macready, Douglas Fowley. Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.
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Tarzan's Peril (1951) was the third Tarzan film that Lex Barker made for producer Sol Lesser at RKO. The previous outing, Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950), was a particularly lackluster film (Barker had taken over from long-time Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller in 1949) and following its release Lesser was anxious to shake up the series.
Tarzan does so and swings back to his tree-house in time to save Jane from the unwanted-attention of another menacing villain. — Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net> After the coronation of Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba, the dangerous escaped convict and ruthless gunrunner, Radijeck, embarks on a mission to deliver a large shipment of guns ...
"Tarzan's Peril" is unique in that it is the first Tarzan film that actually shot in Africa, although it's fairly obvious none of the leading cast were on location.
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Tarzan's Peril is a 1951 film starring Lex Barker as Tarzan and Virginia Huston as Jane, and featuring Dorothy Dandridge as "Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba." Some of it was shot in Kenya, making it the first Tarzan movie to be filmed in Africa, though the majority of its location shooting was done in the United States.
