Tarzan gets out of the house for a change and heads to the desert, where he’s to pick up some medicine for Jane, who is off in London nursing the troops. We don’t see her, but there is a female lead – Nancy Kelly, who’s a lot of fun as a spunky American chorus girl out in the desert to entertain the troops who winds up getting involved with Tarzan and his ensuring clashes with Arabs and assorted Nazis.
There’s no romance between Kelly and Tarzan – though, like Tarzan Triumphs, I think you could read one into it. (They set up this American educated Arab to be Kelly’s love interest… then kill him off). Come to think of it, you could have had a bit more emotion in the film if you had Kelly fall in love with Tarzan (they kind of imply it at the end that she’d like to stay in the jungle with Tarzan and Boy).
Weismuller was starting to look pretty flabby around now (you can see him suck in his gut in a few scenes), but there’s plenty of action: rescuing someone from being hanged, a stampede of horses, a sandstorm, Boy winds up in a spider web and is attacked by a huge spider, Tarzan is trapped by a plant.
The desert setting is refreshing but the last 15 minutes are still set back in the jungle. The anti-Nazi propaganda is less overt in this one – the baddies are just there
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