Tarzan and the Amazons

In opening scene of Cheetah fishing they show some parrots in the trees, a macaw and two cockatoos.

Macaw are native to Central and South America and cockatoos are found only in Australia and surrounding islands.

When Athena is struck in the back with the knife, she falls over but manages to survive long enough to strike the gong.

The entire time she falls right up until she strikes the gong, no knife is seen in her back, nor is one seen on the ground.

After Jane dresses into her jungle attire, she calls down to Tarzan, who races into the tree house after her.

She swings to the ground using a vine, then lands on the ground twice.

Tarzan has appeared on screen in nearly a hundred films, mostly made in the thirties, forties and fifties they were often shown on television during my childhood and were a favourite of mine. Edgar Rice Burroughs' character was originally a British aristocrat abandoned in the jungle as a baby and raised by a tribe of apes, but these aspects of the story were often omitted from the later films.

This film was released in April, 1945, very close to the end of WW2, and likely reflects some of the sub-rosa anxieties of this period. Specifically, some of the allied service-men had already been mustered-out (due to wounds, etc.

TARZAN AND THE AMAZONS (RKO Radio, 1945), directed by Kurt Neumann, the first theatrical "Tarzan" release since 1943's TARZAN TRIUMPHS and TARZAN'S DESERT MYSTERY, and the third installment under Sol Lesser productions for RKO starring Johnny Weissmuller, brings forth some notable changes: Tarzan having a bigger waistline and sporting an upgraded larger sized loincloth, while Johnny Sheffield, not quite a teen idol yet, still the curly haired adolescent Boy of about 13 or 14, whose speaking voice no longer in a higher pitch of a child, coming close to the physical height of Weissmuller, sporting a darker colored but smaller sized loincloth. Most importantly, however, is the return of Tarzan's mate/wife, Jane, formerly played by the redheaded Maureen O'Sullivan at MGM, now enacted by the blonde Brenda Joyce.

Johnny Weissmuller made a name for himself as Tarzan at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio. However, and I am not sure why, Weissmuller and 'Boy' (Johnny Sheffield) jumped from this prestige studio to the less than stellar RKO--where the budgets shrank considerably as did the quality.

Tarzan and the Amazons (Kurt Neumann, 1945) is a pretty joyless third entry in the low-budget RKO continuation, following the very strong Tarzan's Desert Mystery. Boy (Johnny Sheffield) is being sullen and stupid - ignoring Tarz's best advice as he helps lead a dodgy expedition to a rich land ruled by women.

In the last two Tarzan films, the last one for MGM and the first one for RKO, the character of Jane was written out by having her go to the United Kingdom as a patriotic gesture for the war. Tarzan himself dealt with the Nazis in his usual manner in these last two films himself, Tarzan Triumphs and Tarzan's Desert Mystery.

Jungle king Johnny Weissmuller (as Tarzan) rescues sexy screaming Shirley O'Hara (as Athena) from some hungry felines. She turns out to be part of a group of similarly sexy White Amazon women in leopard skin one-piece suits.

Even a tribe of Amazonian starlets fail to elevate this Tarzan picture above the ordinary. Weismuller looks a little chunky in this one, and fails to notice the startling transformation undertaken by Jane while she was away.

Tarzan and the Amazons (1945) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Johnny Weissmuller's ninth time playing Tarzan has him and Boy (Johnny Sheffield) welcoming home Jane (Brenda Joyce) who also brings with her some archaeologists. They soon learn of a secret tribe of women (led by Maria Ouspenskaya) and ask Tarzan to take them to the ladies.