The Revenge of Tarzan

Infobox Film
name = The Revenge of Tarzan
writer = Robert Saxmar
based on the novel "The Return of Tarzan" by Edgar Rice Burroughs
starring = Gene Pollar
Karla Schramm
Estelle Taylor
Armand Cortes
Franklin B. Coates
director = Harry Revier
George M. Merrick
producer = Great Western Producing Company
distributor = Goldwyn Distributing Company
released = May 30, 1920
runtime = 90 mins
language = Silent film
English intertitles
preceded_by = "The Romance of Tarzan"
followed_by = "The Son of Tarzan"
imdb_id = 0011624 |

The Revenge of Tarzan (1920) is a silent adventure film, and the third Tarzan film produced. The film was produced by the Great Western Film Producing Company, a subsidiary of Numa Pictures Corporation. It was sold to Goldwyn Distributing Company before release. It was written by Robert Saxmar (based on the 1915 novel "The Return of Tarzan" by Edgar Rice Burroughs), and directed by Harry Revier and George M. Merrick. It was released on May 30, 1920.

Plot

Tarzan and Jane are traveling to Paris to help his old friend Countess de Coude, who is being threatened by her brother, Nikolas Rokoff. Rokoff has Tarzan tossed overboard. He survives, comes ashore in North Africa, and goes to Paris to search for Jane.

In Paris, Tarzan reunites with his old friend Paul D'Arnot, who informs him that Jane was taken to Africa.

Tarzan returns just in time to save Jane from a lion attack, and soon defeats Rokoff and his henchmen.

Cast

*Gene Pollar as Tarzan
*Karla Schramm as Jane
*Estelle Taylor as Countess de Coude, Tarzan's ally
*Armand Cortes as Nikolas Rokoff, a villain
*Franklin B. Coates as Paul D'Arnot, Tarzan's old friend
*George Romain as Count de Coude

Production Notes

The production filmed on location in New York, Florida, and Balboa, California.

Karla Schramm returned to portray Jane in "The Son of Tarzan" (opposite P. Dempsey Tabler as Tarzan), also released in 1920. She and Brenda Joyce are the only two actresses to portray Jane opposite two different Tarzans.

Gene Pollar, a former firefighter, made no other films, and returned to his old job after the film was completed.

The film is currently lost.

References

Essoe, Gabe. "Tarzan of The Movies", 1968, published by The Citadel Press.