Original Tarzan Films

[onlyme]

The best build Tarzan was  Steve Hawkes (real name Steve Sipek)

Actually Miles O'Keefe had the best body of any Tarzan

[stuntmovie]

Keith, the only "Boy" role that I can remember was filled by Johnny Sheffield. He owned that surfboard shop on Kalakaua by Kapiolani and never spoke about his days in Hollywood. He had one mean dog who used to follow me around the corner until I'd yell at him to "Go home!".

Spanky (Our Gang) used to hang around that area too. Remember him? I never yelled at him though!

[stuntmovie]

Yea, Miles was built like that even years before he got that Tarzan role.

I forgot to mention that I was on a Tarzan set at one of the major studios in Hollywood a long while back and they did one hell of an amazing job making it look like a real jungle. It all looked perfectly real as long as you didn't look straight up. And it was big enough to get lost in. A good friend of mine was playing an ape role and we were there to check it out.

After filming that scene we went over to another set and he did some ape scenes on the old set that was the original sailing ship for Clark Gable's Mutiny on the Bounty. Good stories there for a later time.

[divcom]

yeah...80s boy band hair in a tarzan movie. 

mike henry looked like he was from the bush. X-NFL LB!

[knny187]

Johnny Weissmuller

Thats the only Tarzan i watched on tv as a kid

[onlyme]

Keith, the only "Boy" role that I can remember was filled by Johnny Sheffield. He owned that surfboard shop on Kalakaua by Kapiolani and never spoke about his days in Hollywood. He had one mean dog who used to follow me around the corner until I'd yell at him to "Go home!".

Spanky (Our Gang) used to hang around that area too. Remember him? I never yelled at him though!

I can't remember but I thought it was Tarzan he was in but maybe not.  I will try to remember

[wes]

Johnny Sheffield also played "Bomba The Jungle Boy" and Weismueller played "Jungle Jim"!!

Any other old fucks remember these flicks? 

[TechnoViking]

ANd all the best Tarzan flicks included "Jane" .... Here's Bo with Miles heading to Safeway.

What GetBig contributor would be good enough to fill Tarzan's sandles today if Hollywood came a looken? And Ditto for Jane!

Tony Little all gased up there...The guy had some legs...

[stuntmovie]

Yea, Wes, I do remember Bomba!

Do you remember the Buster Crabb "Flash Gordon" serials with Emperor Ming?

Wasn't it filmed on Planet Mongo? The space ship landing scenes and sound effects were 'amazing'.

[wes]

Stunt,I remember seeing some episodes of the Flash Gordon cliffhangers............ ..way ahead of its time as far as special effects go.
Long live Ming The Merciless! 

[dr.chimps]

Excellent thread, lads.   

/maureen o'sullivan can still cause serious wood! 

[Parker]

Who was the Tarzan that had a kinda white collar corp job and a lion? It was like in the 50-60's, and the series was in color. I remember seeing dude used to take a Plane to Africa or something.

[wes]

Parker,I think that was with ex-pro footballer Mike Henry.

Chimps,where ya` been bud?

[dr.chimps]

Parker,I think that was with ex-pro footballer Mike Henry.

Chimps,where ya` been bud?

Been in TO for a big book festival. Colour me a nerd, but it makes my world go 'round. 

[stuntmovie]

Welcome back, Chimps. I thought you'd be showing up in here sooner or later. What book festival and why? I'm also a book nerd. Right now I'm reading one of those NOLO books on how to set up a Nonprofit Corporation in California.

I told the story about that friend of mine who dressed up as Clark Kent with his Superman suit beneath and finally had to change his demeanor because it just got too hot and sweaty when the winter months back east were done.

He had mentioned that he was interested in becoming Tarzan for the summer, but I never did hear how that that worked out. I'll try to locate him, get his story, and pass it on. This guy is one amazing bodybuilder who literally lived the life of his Super-Heros regardless of the consequences.

Last I heard, he was working for one of the railroads back east. Gonna try to contact him to see what's new!

[stuntmovie]

Yea, Wes! Ming the Merciless! I had forgotten that "last name". Sorry to say, but I never did meet anyone from the cast and crew of that original Flash Gordon series.

I can recall going to those old time movies and seeing a couple of "serials" after three or four cartoons and before the major feature.

I remember getting sick to my stomach when Superman first got exposed to Kryptonite. I never realized he had a weakness.

Trivia .... When and what was the last movie serial ever made? And why did they discontinue making them? They called them "Cliff-Hangers".

To tell ya the truth - I think they'll be back!

Gonna attempt to write a 12 episode "cliff-hanger" about the bodybuilding world and what it takes to reach the top and eventually hit the bottom. Maybe Grant would be interested as one of the lead characters.

[wes]

Great thread guys!!

Chimps,I used to read a lot but have lost the urge lately..............gott a` get back into it.

[Megalodon]

Maureen O'Sullivan appeared totally nude in a Tarzan movie in the 1930s!!!!

Then the censors became involved the movie industry. It wasn't until the late 1960s/early 70s when censorship was not as much of a problemo.

 

[stuntmovie]

The Outlaw

The Moon is Blue

Lolita

Those were the top three censored movies when I was growing up. Nothing at all similar to Deep Throat many years later.

When Tarzan (Weismuller) first meets Jane and tries to communicate with her while sitting in the tree was real suggestive back then but apparently never censored.

Those underwater scenes swimming with the elephants was way before its time. Way before scuba and underwater cameras even.

I don't know the ear that Universal built that tank on the back lot for filming underwater scenes but I was asked to be the best man for a good friend who was a stuntman there for an underwater wedding to promote some movie that they were in the process of promoting. I got fitted in a tailored wet suit that looked identical to a tux and was all prepared to do my best man duties but a couple of days before the wedding I got unexpected orders to hop over to some foreign country to do my duties elsewhere. I believe that was the first and possibly the last underwater wedding ever held in that tank and it's still there the last time I looked a while back.