- Tarzan and the Trappers
Infobox Film | name = Tarzan and the Trappers
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director =Charles F. Haas Sandy Howard H. Bruce Humberstone (uncedited)
producer =Sol Lesser
writer =Frederick Schlick ,Robert Leach Edgar Rice Burroughs (characters)
starring =Gordon Scott
Eve BrentRickie Sorensen
Lesley Bradley
music =Audrey Granville
cinematography =William Snyder Alan Stensvold
editing =George Gittens
distributor =Sol Lesser Productions
released =
runtime = 70-74 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0052273
preceded_by = "Tarzan and the Lost Safari "
followed_by = "Tarzan's Fight for Life ""Tarzan and the Trappers" (1958) is an action adventure film featuring
Edgar Rice Burroughs ' famous jungle heroTarzan and starringGordon Scott , Eve Brent,Rickie Sorensen andLesley Bradley . The movie was filmed as three pilot episodes for a television series which were edited into a feature film when the project was abandoned, and so was released in black and white rather than color, like other contemporary Tarzan films. The film did finally appear on television, but only in 1966.Plot
The idyllic jungle life of Tarzan (Gordon Scott), Jane (Eve Brent) and Tartu (Rickie Sorensen) is interrupted by a drum message telling them of predatory hunters loose in the jungle. Tarzan disrupts the animal-collecting expedition of the hunters, Schroeder (Lesley Bradley) and Rene (
Maurice Marsac ); he frees a baby elephant whose mother they have killed and then leads the elephant herd against them when they make hostages of Tartu andCheeta the chimp. Afterwards he warns off two other hunters, Sikes (Saul Gorse) and Lapin (William Keene ), seeking to plunder the lost city of Zarbo. He is attacked by their men, but escapes and shadows their party. Aware of Tarzan's continued presence, the hunters capture his native friend Tyana (Sherman Crothers), and trap the ape man when he tries to free him. Tyana's tribe rescues the two. Finally, the hunters reach Zarbo, but find it empty of both people and treasure. In a final conflict, Tarzan overcomes the villains, who are then turned over to the authorities by the natives.External links
*imdb title|id=0052273|title=Tarzan and the Trappers
* [http://www.angelfire.com/apes/tarzanscott/tat.html "Tarzan and the Trappers" entry on "Down Memory Lane with Tarzan (Gordon Scott)"]
* [http://www.rinkworks.com/movies/m/tarzan.and.the.trappers.1958.shtml "Tarzan and the Trappers" entry on At-A-Glance Film Reviews]
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