Tarzan's Fight for Life

Infobox Film | name = Tarzan's Fight for Life

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caption = "Tarzan's Fight for Life" movie poster
director = H. Bruce Humberstone
producer = Sol Lesser
writer = Thomas Hal Phillips
Edgar Rice Burroughs (characters)
starring = Gordon Scott
Eve Brent
Rickie Sorensen
Jil Jarmyn
Cheeta
music = Ernest Gold
cinematography = William E. Snyder
editing = Aaron Stell
distributor = MGM
released = July, 1958
runtime = 86 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0052275
preceded_by = "Tarzan and the Trappers"
followed_by = "Tarzan's Greatest Adventure"

"Tarzan's Fight for Life" (1958) is an action adventure film featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan and starring Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorensen, Jil Jarmyn, and Cheeta the chimpanzee. The movie was directed by H. Bruce Humberstone. It was the second Tarzan movie released in color, and the last to portray the ape man speaking broken English.

Plot

Jungle medics Dr. Sturdy (Carl Benton Reid) and his daughter Anne (Jil Jarmyn) are opposed by witch doctor Futa (James Edwards) of the Nagasu tribe, who regards their work as a threat to his own livelihood. Futa incites the tribe to waylay Anne's fiance Dr. Ken Warwick (Harry Lauter), who is saved by Tarzan (Gordon Scott). Later Tarzan and his adopted son Tartu (Rickie Sorensen) enlist the doctors' services on behalf of Jane (Eve Brent), suffering from appendicitis. Futa hypnotises Moto (Nick Stewart), a native assistant of Sturdy, to murder Jane, but Tarzan thwarts the plot. Learning that the young Nagasu chief (Roy Glenn) is sick, Tarzan attempts to persuade them to let Sturdy treat them. Seizing his chance, Futa has the ape man taken captive and condemned to death. To restore his own credentials, the witch doctor then undertakes to cure the chief himself, hedging his bets by having his henchman Ramo (Woody Strode) steal medicine from Sturdy. Unfortunately, Ramo purloins a poison by mistake. Freeing himself, Tarzan intervenes and prevents the administration of the poison to the chief; Futa then swallows it himself to demonstrate that there is no harm in it—and of course dies. Dr. Sturdy is consequently called in, successfully curing the chief.

External links

*imdb title|id=0052275|title=Tarzan's Fight for Life
* [http://www.angelfire.com/apes/tarzanscott/tf4l.html "Tarzan's Fight for Life" entry on "Down Memory Lane with Tarzan (Gordon Scott)"]
* [http://www.rinkworks.com/movies/m/tarzans.fight.for.life.1958.shtml "Tarzan's Fight for Life" entry on At-A-Glance Film Reviews]
* [http://www.moria.co.nz/fantasy/tsfightforlife.htm "Tarzan's Fight for Life" entry on The SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review]
* [http://www.erbzine.com/mag19/1955.html "Tarzan's Fight for Life" entry on ERBzine.com]