Tarzan Finds a Son!

When Jane is feeding milk to the baby, she's also folding diapers in between scenes.

Tarzan is seen using trapezes when swinging through the jungle.

A plane carrying a wealthy couple and their baby crashlands in the African jungle everyone except the baby dies. Monkeys take the child up in a tree Tarzan and Jane will raise it as their own.

There are two facts that if you know going in, might increase your appreciation of this film:1) Johnny Sheffield, who played Boy, loved Johnny Weissmuller like an uncle. Sheffield gave a little speech upon Weissmuller's death, and wrote a foreword to a Weissmuller biography, each glowing with praise and affection for the star.

My second Tarzan double-feature slot and the cracks are beginning to show! That said, TARZAN ESCAPES (1936 ***) is much better than online reviews would have you believe: true, there is ample stock footage on display here but it also boasts a strong plot line and cast (featuring Benita Hume, future wife of Ronald Colman and later George Sanders, as well as MGM staple Herbert Mundin and James Whale favorite E.

This is the fourth MGM Tarzan film starring Johnny Weismuller and Maureen O'Sullivan. The film begins with a plane crashing in Africa.

When a young couple (MORTON LOWRY and LARAINE DAY) are killed in a plane crash over the jungle, only their infant son survives. Cheetah rescues the baby from the plane and brings it to the jungle hideout of Tarzan and Jane (JOHNNY WEISSMULLER and MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN).

Mysterious air currents and mechanical failures cause a private plane to crash in Africa, with only a baby boy surviving. Tarzan's chimp "Cheeta" swings by and tosses the blanketed lad to jungle king Johnny Weissmuller (as Tarzan), who has arrived to investigate.

During my early teenage years l used to did watch Tarzan's movies on TV or even at theatre occasionally, it was funny but mostly of them silly, because of Johnny Weissmuller's dumb behavior, however put into practice revisiting movies, this one watch carefully surprise me deeply, it's was so well produced, in several places without repeat as usually done, the restoration process was so great bring brightness in a black & white movie, so then l've changing my vote to a new level!!

TARZAN FINDS A SON (MGM, 1939), directed by Richard Thorpe, the fourth installment to the popular movie series based on the characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, marks a new beginning for Tarzan and Jane as they become parents and accepting the responsibility in raising a child. No, Jane did not have a blessed event in the traditional sense, nor did Tarzan start passing out bananas in place of cigars in the waiting room to other expectant African native fathers in the waiting room of a jungle cottage hospital, nor did Cheetah act as the midwife.

This was another interesting, fast-moving Tarzan film with plenty of action and even a little more humor than normal.