THE ADVENTURES OF TARZAN. 1921. Directed by Robert F. Hill Scott Sidney for the Numa Pictures Corporation. 15-chapter silent film serial loosely based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Return of Tarzan (1915) & Tarzan & the Jewels of Opar (1918). Adult Tarzan (Elmo Lincoln) gets to have a child bride in this one, as 16-year-old Louise Lorraine plays Jane; she would afterward gain the title "Queen of the Serials." Having a little kid at home to do the nasty with doubtless gave Tarzan the strength he needed to spurn Queen La (Lillian Worth) of the Atlantean city of Opar. The film was one of the most successful in its day, rivaling Valentino's The Shiek in popularity, with even the animal stars Tantor the elephant & Numa the lion becoming household names.

ANGKOR. 1937 reissue & re-edit title of 1934's Inyaah, Jungle Goddess, which see.

APE MAN OF THE JUNGLE. 1962, Italy. See under Contra los Hombres Leopardo.

AT THE EARTH'S CORE. 1976, UK. Directed by Keven Connor. Based on the 1922 Edgar Rice Burroughs novel of the Hollow Earth. Second in a loose trilogy that begins with The Land that Time Forgot & concludes with The People that Time Forgot. A Victorian scientist (Peter Cushing) & explorer (Doug McClure) leads expedition to the center of the Earth, populated by subhuman warriors & prehistoric beasts. Also featuring Carolyn Munro, Godfrey James & Cy Grant.

BOMBA & THE HIDDEN CITY 1950. Also known simply as The Hidden City, based on such Bomba books by Roy Rockwood as Bomba the Hungle Boy & the Abandoned City (1927). Directed by Ford L. Beebe & starring Johnny Shelfield as Bomba the Jungle Boy & Sue England as the orphaned jungle girl Zita of Kampani. Beginning with Bomba the Jungle Boy in 1949, Sheffield starred in twelve Bomba films in the early 1950s, but is better remembered for his 1940s role as "Boy" the adopted son of Tarzan & Jane.

BOMBA & THE LOST VOLCANO. 1950. Also known as The Lost Volcano, inspired by Roy Rockwood's Bomba the Jungle Boy at the Moving Mountain (1926). Starring Johnny Sheffield as Bomba & featuring Donald Woods & Marjorie Lord. Tale of the treasure of a lost race whose city is inside a volcano on the verge of eruption.

CALL OF THE SAVAGE. 1935. Directed by Lew Landers. A 12-chapter jungle serial available on video, based on Otis Adelbert Kline's Jan of the Jungle which is a pastiche of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Kline's story didn't appear in book form until 1937 but was earlier in the magazine Argosy where the filmmakers caught it. Scientists in Africa discover a lost city of Mu ruled by a bad-guy who owns a death-ray. Stars Noah Beery, Jr. as Jan the feral orphan raised by monkeys, assisted by Princess Mona (Dorothy Short) in overcoming the evil scientists (Walter Miller, Frederic Mackaye). Serials were as a rule cut down for a feature film-length version, & the short version of this one was called Savage Fury likewise available on video.

CARRY ON UP THE JUNGLE. 1970, UK. Also called Carry on Up the Congo. Directed by Gerald Thomas. One of the "Carry On" comedy film series, this one spoofing jungle films, with very specific references to works of both Haggard & Burroughs. The year is 1900. A safari of white guys sets out with Great White Hunter Bill Boosey (Sid James) & his faithful tracker Upsidasi (Bernard Bresslaw, spoofing Allan Quatermain's friend & guide Umslopogaas), Professor Inigo Tinkle (Frankie Howard), Lady Evelyn Bagley (Joan Sims) & her maid June (Jackie Piper), all in quest for the legendary Oozulum bird. Lady Bagley's husband Walter (Charles Hawtrey) & infant son Cecil (Terry Scott) were many years earlier lost & presumed dead in the jungle. Wonderfully enough Cecil has became a Jungle Boy Tarzan type, & is very happy to find June in the jungle. When the safari is captured by cannibals, they are saved from doom by the hitherto unknown all-female tribe of statuesque amazons called the Lubidubi (i.e., the Lovey-dovies). The warrior women's leader is Leda (Valerie Leonwho) & she's tickled pink to have found so many white guys for her women to mate with. She has her wards whisked away to their hidden country of Aphrodesia where the only male of the tribe, King Tonka the Master of Lovers, turns out to be Lady Cecil's long-lost henpecked husband Walter. Tonka's cover is blown & he falls from power, but never fear, Tarzan & Jane -- I mean Cecil & June -- will save everyone.

CONTRA LOS HOMBRES LEOPARDO. 1962, Italian. Directed by Carlo Veo. In English as Ape Man of the Jungle, an unauthorized adaptation inspired by ERB's 1935 novel Tarzan & The Leopard Men. Marginal for this filmography since the cultic leopard men are not necessarily of a lost race. Ralph Hudson plays the Lord of the Jungle saving a scientific expedition from the sinister Leopard Men. Rita Klein, John Chevron & Nuccia Cardinalli costar.

FORBIDDEN ADVENTURE IN ANGKOR. Sometimes shortened to The Forbidden Adventure. 1937 reissue & re-edit title of Inyaah, Jungle Goddess, which see.

HER JUNGLE LOVE. 1938. Directed by George Archainbaud. A Technicolor follow-up to Jungle Princess with many of the same ingredients. Starring Dorothy Lamour in her trademark Sarong playing Tura the South Seas Island Babe. Both this film & Jungle Princess provide sufficient architectural evidence that the tribal society is a remnant of an earlier Malaysian civilization. Her Jungle Love includes the usual volcano-cult routine that would seem to be the decayed religion of an otherwise vanished society of the Malay interior. Aviator Bob Mitchel (Ray Milland) crash lands on a tropical island where he & his mechanic Jimmy (Lynne Overman) have nifty adventures. Bob teaching Tura how to kiss while Jimmy copes with Gaga the chimp & Meewa the tiger cub. The villainous witchdoctor (J. Carrol Nash) hypnotizes Tura inducing her to assist him with human sacrifices. But just before Bob, Jimmy & Tura meet an untimely end, a volcano eruption saves the day & our dynamic trio flee to safety. Volcanic destruction of lost worlds as protagonist and/or friends escape is routine for the genre.

THE HIDDEN CITY. See Bomba & the Hidden City.

INYAAH, JUNGLE GODDESS. 1934. Directed by J. C. Cook who got considerable mileage off this classic failure; re-edits are credited to director Roy Purdon. Frequently reissued with new titles: Angkor (1937), The Forbidden Adventure [of Angkhor] (1938), Strange Adventure (1940), The Virgin of Sarawak (1940), & Jungle Virgin (1942). Most of the reissues are reedited in different ways, some versions having drawn-on ferns to hide the boobs of the naked aboriginal babes, with a narrative soundtrack added in 1940 that frequently contradicts what is going on on the screen. A curiosity originally purporting to be an actual expedition seeking a mysterious White Goddess in the jungles of Borneo, worshipped in a Lost City which is actually Angkor Wat in Cambodia. This fake-out evidently fooled the more gullible rubes of the day, the idea behind the project being that if National Geographic can show nekkid leddies just so long as they were aboriginal, then so could a muddled sexploitation pseudo-documentary. It starred big game hunter Wilfred Lucas as one of the two archeologists seeking the lost city. Their busty maiden native bearers for extra spice are attacked by missing link ape-men who look rather like acting extras wearing moth-eaten ape suits.

JUNGLE BURGER. 1975. See Tarzoon, la honte de la jungle.

JUNGLE GIRL. 1941. Republic's 15-part serial, directed by William Witney & John English. Preposterously claiming itself to be based on Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1932 book of the same name, Republic screwed itself with that claim, as the rights to the serial ended up with the Burroughs estate, though there's nothing but the title to resemble the book. Francis Gifford plays Nyoka the Jungle Girl, though it is stuntwoman Helen Thurston who provides the excellent scenes of swinging on vines. Also featuring Abraham Lincoln (with screen credit under the name Trevor Bardette) as Nyoka's pop & as his own murdering greed evil twin; Gerald Mohr as an evil henchman; Tom Neal as the dashing hero, & a full complement of Saturday matinee serial regulars. There's a friendly tribe called the Musamba. At first glance it might not seem an intentional device that they are white men who live black African tribal peoples, but even if the casting was racistly inspired, they're a degraded Lost Race so perhaps being white guys means they're the descendants of a lost legion or something. (In the novel set in Southeast Asia, the lost race consisted of Khymers). The white-tribe-with-afros possess a King Solomon's Mine type secret treasure which the explorers want to swipe. The high priest Shamba (Frank Lackteen), not to be confused with little black Sambo, is just as nasty as the thieving explorers. But child actor Tommy Cook is a good native kid & a few other nice ones justify Nyoka saving the day. In the unofficial sequel The Perils of Nyoka (1942) pretty much everything established in the first film is tossed out & Nyoka is no longer a vine-swinging jungle girl but a gun-toting safari girl; this was done evidently so Burroughs couldn't swipe all the rights to the stuff Republic was swiping from Burroughs.

JUNGLE GIRL. 1984. Directed by Richard Meyers. Remake of the 1941 Republic serial, with Mary Leed filling in for Frances Gifford as Nyoka the Jungle Girl, & Jake Leed filling in for Tom Neal as Stanton. I have not seen this rare homage to the old matinee serials & am not yet certain it retains some variation of Burroughs' novel's Khymer lost race in Southeast Asia.

THE JUNGLE GODDESS. 1922. 15 chapter silent serial produced by Export-Import FIlms. Directed by James Conway. Starring Elinor Field, Vonda Phelps, George Reed &c. I could find no information about the film per se, but there was a novelization by H. Allan Wallis (1923) & one would assume the plots are the same. A European girl is the "white goddess" of an African tribe that is dominated by a priesthood who manipulates the girl as readily as they manipulate the string-operated "living" idol the tribe worships. Not necessarily lost race but close with more lavish sets than usual.

THE JUNGLE GODDESS. 1949. Directed by Lewis D. Collins. Greta the white jungle princess is played by Wanda McKay. "Armida" plays the native girl "Wanama." Smoki Whitfield is Oolonga the witch doctor. George Reeves & Ralph Byrd are Mike & Bob, the pilots who go in search of the long-lost Greta. Filmed "in glowing Sepiatone" & ridiculed on TV's Mystery Science Theater 3000. Not really lost race but closely enough related for inclusion.

JUNGLE GOLD. 1966. A condensed for television version of the 1944 serial Tiger Woman, which see.

THE JUNGLE PRINCESS. 1920. See this entry in the Lost Race Filmography Part III.

JUNGLE PRINCESS. 1936. Directed by Wilhelm Thiele. A very marginal inclusion since the tribe that fears Ula the Jungle Girl & her pet tiger don't quite qualify as a Lost Race, but the tone of the film shares much in common with lost race genre. Dorothy Lamour is Ula in the sarong that was to become her trademark garment; & she gets to sing "Moonlight & Shadows." A jungle explorer (Ray Milland) falls in love with the Malaysian jungle girl & decides to stay with her -- an almost unique outcome since the hero of such tales almost always leaves his lost paradise whether with or without his jungle maiden in tow. Also featuring Akim Tamouroff. See the sequel-of-sorts, Her Jungle Love.

JUNGLE VIRGIN. 1942 reissue & re-edit title of 1934's Inyaah, Jungle Goddess, which see.

KING OF THE JUNGLE. 1969. See under the original Italian title Tarzan en la gruta del oro.

THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT. 1975, UK. Directed by Kevin Connor. Starring Doug McClure, Susan Penhaligon, John McEnery. Inspired by Burroughs' novella "The Land That Time Forgot" from Blue Book August 1918, in book form as the first third of The Land that Time Forgot (1924) adventure fantasy by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Germans & Americans in a World War I submarine accidentally enter the hollow earth's land of Caprona, where prehistoric races & creatures remain. It's film sequels by the same director were At the Earth's Core and The People that Time Forgot (1977).

THE LOST VOLCANO. See Bomba & the Lost Volcano.

MISTRESS OF THE APES. 1979. Written & directed by Z-filmmaker Larry "Attack of the Eye People" Buchanan. Starring Playboy bunny Barbara Leigh; also featuring Jenny Neumann & Garth Pillsbury. A tribe of Homo habilus (the missing link) is found in Central Africa & they want Babs to be their jungle girl.

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF TARZAN. 1934. Also called Tarzan's New Adventures. Directed by Edward A. Kull & Wilbur McGaugh. This 12-chapter serial was later cut down & distributed as two shorter films. The first had the same title but was only 70 minutes made from the first two chapters plus a new ending, released in 1935; a version released in the UK was cut to 59 minutes. The second feature film was cut to 72 minutes & called Tarzan & the Green Goddess (1938) consisting of scenes from chapters three through twelve again with a little extra footage not in the full serial.

Disappointed in the "Me, Tarzan" school of monkey-man movies, deploring even Johnny Weissmuller, Edgar Rice Burroughs decided to bring his Oxford-educated original Tarzan to the screen, but did he ever screw up. Filmed in Guatemala whatever could go wrong went wrong, & Olympic medalist Herman Brix is justifiably not the first Tarzan you think of when you think of Tarzan. But at least much of the action takes palce in a lost Mayan city, with the entire lost race getting machine-gunned for viewers' enjoyment. The story was original but some of the ideas therein resurfaced in "Tarzan & the Magic Men" first serialized in Argosy in 1936, & "Tarzan & the Elephant Men" serialized in Blue Book in 1937, both novellas regarding Tarzan's visit to lost cities in South America, given book publication as Tarzan the Magnificent (1939).

NYOKA & THE LOST SECRETS OF HIPPOCRATES. 1966. A cut-down version of the 1942 matinee serial Perils of Nyoka which see.

NYOKA & THE TIGER MEN. Re-release title of the 1942 matinee serial Perils of Nyoka which see.

THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT. 1977, UK. Directed by Keven Connor, based on the novella "The People that Time Forgot" originally in Blue Book October, 1918. Last of the trilogy that began with The Land that Time Forgot (1975). Starring Patrick Wayne, Doug McClure, Dana Gillespie, Sarah Douglas, & Thorley Walters. Explorers investigate a lost island of Caprona which is populated by prehistoric monsters, ape people, & a demonic prehistoric race whose city is made of human skulls & who have decimated the human tribal population. Surprisingly well done.

PERILS OF THE DARKEST JUNGLE. 1951 re-release title of 1944's The Tiger Woman, which see.

PERILS OF NYOKA. 1942. Directed by William Witney. A 15-chapter serial, the unofficial sequel to another film serial, Jungle Girl (1941), inspired by Edgar Rice Burrough's 1932 book. It's re-release title was Nyoka & the Tigermen & a version for television was cut down to 100 minutes with the title Nyoka & the Lost Secrets of Hippocrates (1966). Kay Aldridge plays Nyoka who as a sharpshooter kills bad men & wrestles with the femme fatale Vultura (Lorna Gray), as well as with Vultura's mean gorilla named Satan. Much more of the school of female big-game hunter rather than wildcat-raised feral girl in panther skin, Nyoka's also a bit more physical in the action sequences since less apt to skin her legs raw in a tussle. Nyoka & her dad (Clayton "Lone Ranger" Moore) encounter a secret desert race in Arabia with a treasure the Romans stole from Egypt. The desert race is ruled by the evil Vultura, complete with human sacrifice & doomful temple. George Lucas & Steven Speilberg shamelessly plagiarised this film for Raiders of the Lot Ark without quite noticing the original story had women in it.

QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE. 1935. Directed by Robert F. Hill, this 12-part serial incorporates many scenes spliced in from earlier jungle films so sloppily that you can see the wrong cast from time to time, & loads of stock jungle footage to pad it out. There's also a 100 minute feature film version with the same title. Mary Kornman plays a White Goddess, having landed in a Swahili village as a little girl after a mishap with a hot air balloon. She gets on well as divine ruler & some of the scenes with the black supporting cast are surprisingly intimate for the day. Yet when as an adult she is rescued by the leading man (Reed Howes), the Jungle Queen pretty quickly adapts bwana costume & heads on out. The natives are so peevish about losing their goddess they'd rather kill her than let her go & soon kidnap her to the Temple of Mu -- hence the lost race element -- the giant idol set being recycled from the silent serial The Jungle Goddess. Since the storyline requires Joan to revert to civilized rather easily, another Leopard Woman (Marilyn Spinner) is introduced to the story to keep the sexy jungle girl element on screen. Also featuring homosexual icon Reed Howes, who was the model for the Arrow Shirt Man, & the artist's lover.

SAVAGE FURY. Feature film version of the 1935 serial The Call of the Savage, which see.

SHAME OF THE JUNGLE. 1975. See Tarzoon, la honte de la jungle.

SHANDRA THE JUNGLE GIRL. 1999. Directed by Sibyl Richards. Softcore porn version of the Burroughsesque Jungle Girl motif. Marginal for lost race content. Shandra (Lisa Throw) lives in a Brazillian jungle & is apparently a member of vampiric race that sucks out vital energies during sex. She is sought by four biologists obviously turned on by the legend of Shandra pleasuring her victims to death.

STRANGE ADVENTURE. 1940 reissue & re-edit title of 1934's Inyaah, Jungle Goddess, which see.

TARZAN. 1966-1969 television series having 57 episodes, starring Ron Ely as an educated Tarzan. Alas Ron Ely's Tarzan was a modern man with rather realistic adventures & in 57 episodes, no room for a lost race. The exception was the double-episode called "The Blue Stone of Heaven" (1969) later put together as a feature-length film called Tarzan's Jungle Revellion, which see.

TARZAN. 1991-1993 syndicated television series starring Wolf Larson. As with Ron Ely's earlier television Tarzan, lost races & other Burroughs material was too often eschewed in favor of modernized themes. For Wolf's Tarzan this frequently meant his conflicts were with jungle polluters. But episode #29, in the second season (1993), was called "Tarzan & the Amazon Women" wherein Tarzan must save a reporter from a tribe of women warriors.

TARZAN & KING SOLOMON'S MINE. 1973. See Tarzan en las minas del ray Salomon.

TARZAN & THE AMAZONS. 1945. Directed by Kurt Neuman. One of the great Johnny Weissmuller episodes, with Johnny Sheffield as Boy (but Jane is for the first time played by Brenda Joyce rather than Maurine O'Hara). This one regards a hidden amazons city of Palmyria whose queen is played by the great Russian actress Maria Ouspenskaya (she also played Maleva in 1941's The Wolf Man & 1943's Frankenstein vs the Wolf Man), & Shirley O'Hara as Athena, with more than two-dozen six-foot-tall "glamazons" posturing here & there. Giving the film a little slack for the time it was made in, it's really very good.

TARZAN & THE ARROW OF DEATH. 1949. Variant title of Tarzan's Magic Fountain which see.

TARZAN & THE GOLDEN LION. 1927 silent film directed by J. P. McGowan, inspired by the 1923 novel of the same name. Jim Pierce played Tarzan & became Burroughs' son-in-law in the process; he also played Tarzan on the radio. Dorothy Dunbar was Lady Greystoke. Boris Karlof plaid Owaza the native chieftain. The mythic "city of diamonds" is a place where civilized girls get sacrificed to a Lion-god, so it's up to Tarzan & his pet lion to save her.

TARZAN & THE GREAT RIVER. 1967. Directed by Robert Day. Starring Mike Henry as Tarzan & featuring Jan Murray, Manuel Padilla, Jr., Diana Millay, & Rafer Johnson. Tarzan visits South America & ends up fighting the Leopard Men & an unknown tribe of Amazons, ruining the evil amazon queen's delicious plans.

TARZAN & THE GREEN GODDESS. 1938. This feature film was a condensed re-edit of the serial The New Adventures of Tarzan, which see.

TARZAN & THE GROTTO OF GOLD. 1969. See Tarzan en la Gruto del Oro.

TARZAN & THE LEOPARD WOMAN. 1946. Directed by Kurt Neumann. Inspired by ERB's 1935 novel Tarzan & The Leopard Men. Starring Johnny Weissmuller as guess who, Brenda Joyce as Jane, Johnny Sheffield as Boy, & Acquanetta who plays the head of the leopard cult in campy classic Jungle Girl mode. Acquanetta was an aboriginal actress marketed as "The Venezualan Volcano" (though she was part Cherokee & born in Wyoming). She appeared in such films as Captive Wild Woman (1943), Jungle Woman (1951) & The Lost Continent (1951), & President Wilson asked her to be the goodwill ambassador to Mexico. For lost race content for Tarzan & the Leopard Woman is a bit iffy, though the Temple does suggest the tribe was once a race that developed permanent architecture above & beyond the usual African village. And all the tribal peoples are white in this seemingly alternate-world Africa. It's a stretch but I'm calling the white tribal leopard cult evidence of a Lost Race.

TARZAN & THE LOST CITY. 1998, US & German production. Directed by Carl Schenkel. Inspired by (but by no means based on) Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1915 novel The Return of Tarzan wherein Tarzan first encountered the Atlantean city of Opar. This is a pretty good film if you ignore inane dialogue, gaping holes in the plot, the foolishness of dragging civilized Jane (played by the attractive Jane Marsh) around the jungle merely to serve as kidnap victim, & a villain (Steve Waddington) who is too stupidly psychotic to be a worthy adversary. On the plus side, the tale sometimes seems more Haggardesque than most Burroughs adaptations by right of the lost race motif being set in the early 1900s & the addition of the supernatural. Casper Van Dien makes a pretty Tarzan & his major scene leaping through trees with his ape-tribe (who pretty much qualify for a lost race themselves, being ape-people rather than gorillas) is pretty darned exciting. His friendship with tribal people is for a change convincing & not condescending. There's a solid effort on the part of the creators to give the African characters real & powerful roles -- indeed, Tarzan would be dead without the fascinating protective sorcery of Mughambi (Winston Ntshona). The story equally has the good sense not to let any black character kill himself specifically for Tarzan's sake in the "You're a better man than I Gungha Din" mode of romantic racism; the plot provided ample opportunity for such an error, as when Kaya (Rapulana Seiphemo) who hates all whites including Tarzan realizes Tarzan's pretty cool & joins forces with him & holds his own as an equal to the end. Another real star for the film is the lost city of Opar itself, memorally designed by Syd Cain. Location shots in South Africa are certainly well chosen.

TARZAN & THE LOST SAFARI. 1957. Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone. Gordon Scott is Tarzan. Orlando Martins plays the ruler of the Oparians. A plane crashes in the jungle & the survivors are harrassed by natives belonging the lost Atlantean city of Opar & who would like to sacrifice them to their Lion God but never fear Tarzan's here. The novel Tarzan & the Lost Safari (1957) was adapted from the film rather than the other way around.

TARZAN & THE MERMAIDS. 1948. Johnny Weissmuller's last outing as Tarzan isn't such a great film, but it does have a lost coastal race who've been duped into worshipping an outsider whom Tarzan must overcome since the hidden people are too spooked to do anything for themselves. Brenda Joyce plays Jane; she also co-stars with Weissmuller in Tarzan & the Leopard Woman (1946) & Tarzan & the Huntress (1947). The secret island queendom is called Aquatania. The leading Aquatanians were played by Mexican actresses Linda Christian (later Mrs. Tyrone Power) as Mara & Andrea Palma as Mara's mom Luana. The sets for Aquatania are most appealing for the time & more thought went into this production than in most of Weissmuller's films.

TARZAN & THE SLAVE GIRL. 1950. Directed by Lee Sholem & starring Lex Barker as Tarzan, with Vanessa Brown as Jane, Denise Darcel as the slave girl & Robert Alda as Neil. Set once again in what is apparently an alternate-world Africa where all tribal peoples in Africa are white. Cute native lassies get kidnapped to a Lost City & this time Tarzan actually kills people for being bad.

TARZAN & THE TRAPPERS. 1958. The film was cobbled together from three pilot episodes for an unsold television series, hence multiply directed by Charles F. Haas & Sandy Howard with cobbling assistance (uncredited) from H. Bruce Humberstone. Gordon Scott is Tarzan; supporting cast includes Eve Brent as Jane, Rickie Sorensen as Boy, & Scatman Crothers is the noble chieftain. Nasty white men trap animals indiscriminantly & seek the treasure of the Lost City of Zarbo.

TARZAN & THE VALLEY OF GOLD. 1966. Directed by Robert Day. This rather modern Tarzan is played by football star Mike Henry who is as comfortable in a suit as in a loincloth & as handy with modern weapons as with a simple knife. One expects him to introduce himself as "Tarzan. James Tarzan." He protects the hidden people of the Valley of Gold, who have Aztec pyramid architecture since the film was shot in Mexico. Nancy Kovak costars. As an aside, though some of the film's ideas are derived from Burroughs's Tarzan the Magnificent (1939), Fritz Leiber did a novelization of the script & being the excellent writer that he was, the book version of Tarzan & the Valley of Gold is most readable.

TARZAN EN LA GRUTA DEL ORO. 1969, Italy, Puerto Rico & Spain production. Directed by Manuel Cano. Steve Hakes as Zan (i.e. Tarzan). Kitty Swan is the Amazon queen whose Central American tribe of women warriors has the gold. Variously titled in English Tarzan & the Grotto of Gold; King of the Jungle; and Zan, King of the Jungle & in Italian Zan, re della giunglia. The story is more or less based on Tarzan the Magnificent (1939).

TARZAN EN LAS MINAS DEL RAY SALOMON. 1973, Spain. In English, Tarzan in King Solomon's Mines. Directed by J. L. Merino Boves & Jose Luis Merino. David Carpener is Tarzan; "Nadiuska" plays Doris. Stuff about a tribe protecting King Solomon's Mines gives it a Haggard interest as well as Burroughs.

TARZAN ESCAPES. 1936. Directed by Richard Thorpe. Starring Johnny Weissmuller & Maureen O'Hara. The main plot has Tarzan captured in a steel cage to be shipped off for display in a carnival, & it's unsettling enough that the film tested as too frightening before it's release, causing a re-edit that doubtless weakened it considerably. A subplot regards vicious pygmies who might be of a lost race.

TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE. 1976 (episodes #s 1-16); 1977 (#17-22 as part of the "Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour"); 1978 (#s 23-28 as part of "Tarzan & the Super Seven" show); 1979 (#s 29-36 still the "Tarzan & the Super Seven"); 1980 (#s 37-53, as part of "Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour"); 1981 (#s 54-67, part of the "Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour"). Saturday morning television cartoon series from Filmation with Robert Ridgely doing Tarzan's voice. I've never seen any of these because I never watched any television at all in the 1970s, so if I'm ever to have all the Lost Race episodes listed correctly, I'll need some help from intense Tarzan fans. By titles alone the Lost Race episodes appear likely to be: "Tarzan & the City of Gold" (episode #1), "Tarzan & the Vikings" (episode 2), "Tarzan & the Forbidden City" (#3), "Tarzan's Return to the City of Gold" (#6), "Tarzan & the Nights of Nimmr" (#9), "Tarzan & the City of Sorcery" (#11), "Tarzan at the Earth's Core" (#12), "Tarzan & The Sunken City of Atlantis" (#16), "Tarzan & the Bird People" (#17), "Tarzan & the Sunken City of Atlantis" (#18), "Tarzan & the Amazon Princess" (#21), "Tarzan & the Conquistadors" (#22) "Tarzan & the Spider People" (#23), "Tarzan & the Lost World" (#25), & "Tarzan & the Land Beneath the Earth" (#31). I cannot locate Tarzan titles for episodes after 1979's fourth season, which led me to assume the reshuffled episodes from #37 onward were exclusively reruns, except that one source says there were 57 episodes made up to 1980, so more information may yet need to be obtained.

TARZAN THE APE MAN. 1932. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke, title at least taken from Burroughs's 1914 book. This is the first Tarzan film to star Johnny Weissmuller & Maureen O'Sullivan. For "lost race" content it is rather marginal. The evil tribal people, who make human sacrifices to a giant gorilla, are played by dwarves in blackface, & I'm going out on a limb supposing no actual African tribe consists of dwarves in blackface. For all its absurdity, a beautiful cast & flasehs of romanticism make this a great film even after all these years.

TARZAN, THE EPIC ADVENTURES. 1996-1997, cable Television series with 20 episodes, initially starring Joe Lara, later replaced by Xavier Declie. As much Sword & Sorcery as jungle adventure, featuring the hollow earth's world of Pellucidar along with many races hidden therein, hence pretty much the whole series is lost race related & closest in spirit to Burroughs's 1930 novel Tarzan at the Earth's Core. There was one novelization, Tarzan, the Epic Adventures by R. A. Salvadore (1996). In the feature-length pilot episode "Tarzan's Return," the gates of Pellucidar are opened. In "Tarzan & the Mahars" Tarzan battles a bat-like winged race. In "Tarzan & the Scarlet Diamonds" weird gems are made from the hearts of reptile-people. In "Tarzan & the Reflections of an Evil Eye" a morphing race abducts a tribal queen. In "Tarzan & the Lost Legion" Tarzan finds an ancient Roman outpost. The Atlantean city of Opar & its priestess-queen La are central to "Tarzan & the Priestess of Opar," & "Tarzan & the Fury of Zadu." The hidden city of Ashar figures in "Tarzan & the Forbidden City."

TARZAN THE FEARLESS. 1933. Directed by Robert F. Hill. Buster Crabbe plays an apparently retarded but very handsome Tarzan; Julie Bishop is Mary, damsel in distress with the hots for the retarded jungle hunk, in this 61- or 85-minute feature made up from the first four chapters of a crude serial; the last 8 chapters are evidently lost or not yet in distribution. An 86-minute version was prepared in 1960 for television & it may have been derived from the UK release; this is the version I saw on video. Mary Brooks' father (E. Allyn Warren) while studying ancient tribes is captured by an Egyptianesque lost race who worship Zar, the God of the Emerald Fingers. Tarzan spends most of his time trying to get Mary as his mate, kidnaps her to his secret cavern lair. Mary seems to enjoy herself there, presumedly to make love out of wedlock -- it must've driven the censors of the day crazy. In his bumbling sweet way Tarzan might be credited with rescuing everyone a few times, from the evil henchmen, saving Mary from white slavery among bedouines (though what these desert people are doing horseback in the jungle is anyone's guess), & from the High Priest of Zar (Mischa Auer). Carlotta Monti played the High Priestess of Zar. The book adaptation was a Whitman "Big Little Book."

TARZAN THE MIGHTY. 1928 15-chapter silent serial. Jack Nelson & Ray Taylor directed & Frank Merrill played Tarzan. Very loosely based on a selection from Burroughs' Jungle Tales (1919). The lost race element enters here in the form of a village of pirates' descendants.

TARZAN THE TIGER. 1929. Directed by Henry McRay. 15-chapter silent serial with talky sequence, inspired by the Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan & the Jewels of Opar regarding an Atlantean city's treasures. Frank Merril is Tarzan. Natalie Kingston co-stars as Jane, & "Kithnou" is La, Queen of the Atlantean city of Opar.

TARZAN TRIUMPHS. 1943. Directed by William Thiel. Johnny Weissmuller again, with Johnny Sheffield as Boy, but Maureen O'Hara declined to play Jane ever again; the script feebly alludes to her being away in England caring for a sick relative. A fine film though O'Hara's presence is missed. Tarzan's new love interest is Zandra the queen of the lost city of Palandrya which unfortunately the Nazis have discovered, but never fear, Tarzan's here. Zandra is played by Frances Gifford who in appears in some recycled sequences of the 12-part serial Panther Girl of the Congo (1955) otherwsie starring Phyllis "Lois Lane" Coates; & more thrillingly she starred as Nyoka in a 15-part Edgar Rice Burroughs serial Jungle Girl (1941).

TARZANA, THE WILD GIRL. 1972. The feral girl is played by sex-pot Fran Poles. Infant survivor of a plane crash, seventeen years later the wild-girl is found by an expedition seeking the long lost heiress of an English noble. Lurid escapades follow with co-star Ken Clark.

TARZAN'S HIDDEN JUNGLE. 1955. Directed by Harold D. Schuster. Marginal for a Lost Race filmography; it is sometimes a fine line between ordinary jungle tribes & lost races. The Sukulu tribe seems rather ordinary but lives in a secret part of the jungle where animals are too sacred to kill, so of course dumbass white hunters show up to kill them & Tarzan (Gordon Scott) has to sort it all out in the end.

TARZAN'S JUNGLE REBELLION. 1970. Starring Ron Ely, this film was cobbled together from a double-episode of Ely's television series, as first aired October 6 & 13, 1967, with the episode-title "The Blue Stone of Heaven." This is the story of an ancient relic called "the Blue Stone," hidden beneath the pyramids & worshipped by tribal peoples. The interesting architecture seems more Semitic than Egyptian. Sam Jaffe, who was the High Lama in the 1937 Lost Race classic Lost Horizon, is in this film an archeologist seeking the Blue Stone.

TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN. 1949. Also called Tarzan & the Arrow of Death. Directed by Lee Sholem. Lex Barker plays Tarzan & Brenda Joyce is Jane. This time the lost race is in a valley where the Fountain of Youth is hidden. Nobody ages unless they leave the valley. Obviously inspired by Lost Horizon.

TARZAN'S NEW ADVENTURES. 1934. See The New Adventures of Tarzan.

TARZOON, LA HONTE DE LA JUNGLE. 1975. Also called Jungle Burger and Shame of the Jungle. Animated spoof by Belgian animator Picha. The original 85 minute cartoon in French may or may not have been funny. The Americanized Englished version renders the sex jokes fairly impotent, despite voicing by John Belushi, Bill Murray & Johnny Weissmuller Jr whose greatest acting claim is he's inside the robot-cop costume in THX 1138. Spoofy lost race elements include the Molar Men, the Penis People, & bald Queen Bazoongas the multi-breasted bad-ass amazon.

THE TIGER WOMAN. 1944. 12-chapter serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet & Wallace Grissell. Starring Linda Sterling as the leopard-skin-mini-skirted titular character, inspired by though not admittedly based on Edgar Rice Burroughs's novel Jungle Girl (1932), & it's not at all inconceivable the parties involved had read ERB's "Tiger Girl" in Amazing Stories April 1942. The inspiration also includes dollops of Haggard's She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, since Tiger Woman is worshipped, as was She, by a tribal cult, & her home base is a Temple with a fiery pit in the center of a Lost City. Tiger Woman is the tribe's warlike queen who fights against incursions by an oil company. That the hero of the piece is named Allan Saunders (played by Allan "Rocky" Lane) might have been the actor intentionally going by his own first name, or may have been the scriptwriter's conscious nod to Haggard's Allan Quatermain. The re-release title was Perils of the Darkest Jungle plus there was a version cut-down to 100 minutes for television called Jungle Gold (1966).

THE VIRGIN OF SARAWAK. 1940 reissue & re-edit title of 1934's Inyaah, Jungle Goddess, which see.

ZAN, RE DELLA GIUNGLIA [ZAN, KING OF THE JUNGLE]. 1969. Release title in Spain of the Italian, Puerto Rican, Spanish mutual production Tarzan en la gruta del oro which see.