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Tarzan Finds a Son! Overview:

Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Sam Zimbalist.

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Watching 1939: Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)

on Jul 29, 2021 From Comet Over Hollywood

In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each film of the year. Right now, tha... Read full article

Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)

By Beatrice on Feb 20, 2014 From Flickers in Time

Tarzan Finds a Son! Directed by Richard Thorpe Written by Cyril Hume based on the characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs 1939/USA Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer First viewing/Netflix rental Tarzan: People! This is tolerable but a big step down from the previous film in the series, Tarzan and His Mate. A ... Read full article

Tarzan Thursday – Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)

By Bernardo Villela on Jun 27, 2013 From The Movie Rat

As I mentioned in the last post, this film begins a new chapter in the trajectory of this franchise while at MGM. There was a trilogy-style approach to consolidating Jane and Tarzan’s relationship, and now, the next step would be to throw a child into the mix. While it can be said to mirror Ta... Read full article

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Tarzan Finds a Son! Quotes:

Tarzan: Jane not go! Jane not die!
[pause]
Tarzan: Jane all right?
Jane: Yes Darling. Everything's all right now.
[first lines]
Mr. Richard Lancing: Wildebeest again.
Mrs. Richard Lancing: I think we've seen about a million today.
Jane: What's the matter?
Tarzan: People!
Jane: [looking at the crib Tarzan built] Tarzan, how clever!
[to the baby]
Jane: Now say, Thank you Father. Thank you Father.
Tarzan: Tarzan!
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Tarzan Finds a Son! Facts
It is stated that "Boy" is the heir to the Greystoke title. In the original books, it was Tarzan himself who was the heir to the Greystoke title.
Tarzan and Boy are filmed playing underwater hide-and-seek in Silver Springs, Florida. Halfway through the shenanigans, a medium-sized alligator can be seen quickly swimming past Tarzan and son and disappearing in the background, without anyone appearing to notice it.
Tarzan had to "find" a son, because censors would not allow Jane to become pregnant because she and Tarzan were not legally married.
Johnny Sheffield claims that he was handpicked by Johnny Weissmuller after screening hundreds of applicants for the role of boy. Weissmuller is also the person who taught Sheffield to swim for the movie.
In the original script Jane was to have died (Maureen O'Sullivan wanted out of the Tarzan series). Fan protest forced a last-minute rewrite in which Jane recovers from her near-fatal wound, admitting she had been wrong to disobey Tarzan.
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