MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Ed-Shullivan Well the story lines may be very predictable but you just can't beat a late night movie with Johnny Weissmuller, the five time Olympic gold medal winner playing in his recurring role of Tarzan. In this film the civilized city dweller Jane (played by Brenda Joyce) befriends a couple of so called archeologists who want Tarzan to take them to the fantasy world inhabited by the Amazon woman deep in the jungle.When Tarzan refuses to be their guide and take these suspicious characters deep into the Amazon jungle, Boy (Johnny Sheffield) agrees to substitute himself as their jungle guide and direct them to the hidden fortress where the Amazon woman live and seem to thrive without men.It doesn't take long for these greedy archeologists to show their true reasons for wanting to find the Amazon women's fortress, and that reason is for the treasures that the Amazon woman possess. So the film contains family values, greedy treasure hunters, good looking Amazon woman, Tarzan to the rescue, and of course Cheetah the chimpanzee getting into his usual mischief. It is another very good action/adventure film for all the Tarzan fans out there.I give it a solid 7 out of 10 rating some 73 years after the films original release date.

Petri Pelkonen In this Tarzan adventure we see Tarzan and Boy waiting for Jane to come back home.She's returning from nursing home in England to support the war effort.Before her return we see Tarzan rescuing an "Amazon" woman from an attack by a black panther.Tarzan carries her through a mountain pass to the valley where her city of Palmyria is located.This is a city nobody ought to know about, apart from Tarzan.Boy follows Tarzan even though he shouldn't and finds out about Palmyria.The Amazon woman happens to drop a golden bracelet during the attack and Cheeta picks it up.The stubborn chimpanzee gives the bracelet to Jane.That's how the men that are with her find out about the secret city.Boy, who is angry at Tarzan for not taking the men to the city, leads them there himself.Soon the life of Boy is in danger.Tarzan and the Amazons (1945) is directed by Kurt Neumann and produced by Sol Lesser.In this Tarzan Brenda Joyce appears as Jane for the first time next to Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan.She succeeded Maureen O'Sullivan in the series and appeared in the role five times.I think Brenda makes a sweet Jane.Johnny Sheffield is Boy.Henry Stephenson plays the well-meaning explorer Sir Guy Henderson.Barton MacLane, who was also in Tarzan and the Huntress two years later plays Ballister, the villainous member of Henderson's party.The role of the Amazon Queen is played by Maria Ouspenskaya.Athena, the girl who Tarzan rescues is played by Shirley O'Hara.This Tarzan movie is a mighty fine jungle adventure.And Cheeta offers some great comedy.It's quite funny to see Cheeta trying to catch a fish.He also wants to smoke some cigars and mistakes explosives for them.A biography of Cheeta (the one that's 76) entitled Me Cheeta is coming out soon.You should read that.And watch this fine movie of the Tarzan franchise.

Ben Burgraff (cariart) TARZAN AND THE AMAZONS is closest in 'style' to the earlier MGM/Johnny Weissmuller 'Tarzan' films (offering a crocodile fight, a 'classic' safari with many more black extras than in any other RKO 'Tarzan' feature of the era, far above-average production values), and is most famous for introducing American Brenda Joyce as the new 'Jane', back from the war. Joyce, 33, blond and wholesomely beautiful, lacked Maureen O'Sullivan's intellectual 'spin' to the role, but worked well with the 41-year-old Weissmuller, while providing a mother figure for 'Boy' Johnny Sheffield that the predominately 'kid' audience could relate to.With a cast of terrific character actors (including Henry Stephenson, Maria Ouspenskaya, and Barton MacLane), and a plot involving a 'lost' city of women (guaranteed to arouse male hormones), the end result is one of the best-remembered RKO entries, and great fun to watch!

Thomas Diemer One of the very few Amazon films where the women warriors were both attractive and able to some butt. Right on (icon of raised clenched fist. Every other amazon film I have seen had the women warriors just parade around in ancient Greek military costumes and behave cutsey-wootsey when the men show up - they need a man after all. These Amazons were beautiful and well build but also willing and able to shoot those arrows and cast those spears when the enemy men showed up - though they still needed Tarzan to get them out of the scrap at the end, but hey, it is a Tarzan movie.