A group of native warriors friendly to Tarzan demonstrates their skills with various weapons.
When they hurl boomerangs, the wires used to suspend the weapons in the air can be seen.
After Jane falls unconscious in the jungle, an elephant finds her and picks her up with its trunk.
The wires allowing her to be lifted and the clips linking them to her costume can clearly be seen.
The "natives" were the wrong color.
Boomerangs are of uniquely Australian origin, not African.
Returning-type boomerangs are not used in actual war or hunting.
They are practice "toys.
Disappointed was the exact meaning for Tarzan behavior so far, I saw Tarzan on fights, hard assignments, arrested sometimes, but never saw he so haggard by Jane allegedly dead, he was overdue, it' sounds weakness as never seen before, a low point, the ivory hunters achieved what anyone gets previously, the movie starts with an outdated and tiresome formula, when Tarzan meets Jane on Tree' house in those warm up scene introducing a new Jane (Joyce Mackenzie), with Cheetah on funny sequence, then came up the Ivory hunters leading by a cruel and heartless Lyra as She-Devil (Monique Van Vooren) and the great Raymond Burr playing a mad dog with a threatening whip ready to be used, at least Jane has a plenty acting on the movie, wasn't a simple eye-candy who stay safe at home, the screenplay is far-fetched appealing in so many stock footage on mostly Indians Elephants instead the large ones Africans with big ears, the final is simply-mindedly pitiful, sorry for Lex Barker on so sad farewell!!Resume:First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 5.
For the fifth and final Tarzan film starring Lex Barker it was not only back to the RKO back lot, but back to the old days when the natives that Tarzan was helping were not even black. In fact Tarzan spends most of the time in chains because he's broken hearted because he thinks the villains have killed Jane.
Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953)** (out of 4) Lex Barker's fifth and final time playing Tarzan is a rather strange one. In the film, ivory poachers (Monique Van Vooren, Raymond Burr) are wanting Tarzan to help him but when he refuses they try a different method.
My fellow-reviewers have commented that the "She-Devil" in the title is a misnomer, and that the lady in question is far less of a "devil" than her two male flunkies--one of whom, wonderfully played by Raymond Burr, is easily the most frightening, hateful, detestable villain you'll ever encounter in any film, period. But emphasizing this point too much will entirely miss the point of the film.
***SPOILERS*** Lex Barker in his final role as Tarzan the Ape Man is kidnapped and tortured by a gang of Ivory poacher's lead by She-Devil Lyra, Monique Van Vooren, and held hostage by them. That's until he can bellow out his famous bull elephant, not ape, call to get the local heard of elephants to meekly get into line to have their precious ivory tusks amputated by the pouches.
Tarzan looks like a real hero of the '90's here, not only stopping illegal ivory poaching but upholding human rights by foiling some latter-day slave trading. This time it's one of those curiously light-skinned tribes that inhabit Central Africa in some of his movies.
Director Kurt Neumann directed the horror classic "The Fly" but the dull Tarzan material here is nowhere as good as that classic. Despite a rather provocative title, this film doesn't have any She-Devils who look the Tura Satana or anything close.
Producer: Sol Lesser. Copyright 10 June 1953 by Sol Lesser Productions, Inc.
TARZAN AND THE SHE-DEVIL (RKO Radio, 1953), directed by Kurt Neumann, stars Lex Barker making his fifth and final screen appearance as Edgar Rice Burrough's lord of the jungle. As the writers of the series attempt new ideas with their screenplays, and gearing to another direction from its previous efforts, for the first time since TARZAN ESCAPES (MGM, 1936) starring Johnny Weissmuller, does the fearless Tarzan allow himself to become the victim, losing his savage fight to overpower the villains, who, in this production, are strong enough to gather more attention than to the main characters.
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