Tarzan's Magic Fountain

Infobox Film
name = Tarzan's Magic Fountain


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director = Lee Sholem
producer =
writer = Curt Siodmak
Henry Chandlee
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starring = Lex Barker
Brenda Joyce
Albert Dekker
Evelyn Ankers
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cinematography = Karl Struss
editing = Merril G. White
distributor = RKO
released = 1949
runtime = 73 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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preceded_by = "Tarzan and the Mermaids"
followed_by = "Tarzan and the Slave Girl"
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imdb_id = 0041947

"Tarzan's Magic Fountain" is a 1949 adventure movie starring Lex Barker as Tarzan and Brenda Joyce as his companion Jane. The film also features Albert Dekker and Evelyn Ankers, and was co-written by Curt Siodmak and directed by Lee Sholem.

This was Barker's first appearance as Edgar Rice Burroughs' ape-man, while Joyce had played Jane opposite Johnny Weismuller as Tarzan in four previous films. She was one of only two actresses to portray Jane in movies with two different actors as Tarzan. (The other was Karla Schramm in the silent era.) "Tarzan's Magic Fountain" was Joyce's final turn in the role; different actresses played Jane in each of Barker's four subsequent Tarzan movies (Vanessa Brown, Virginia Huston, Dorothy Hart, and Joyce MacKenzie). Elmo Lincoln, who had been the first screen Tarzan three decades earlier, appears, uncredited, as a fisherman repairing his nets.

Plot

Horror film "scream queen" Ankers portrays an aviatrix who walks out of the jungle looking decades younger than her chronological age due to a secret fountain of youth but gradually begins a terrifying accelerated aging process. Against Tarzan's wishes, she and Jane begin a desperate search for the fountain.

Cast

Lex Barker ... Tarzan
Brenda Joyce ... Jane
Albert Dekker ... Mr. Trask
Evelyn Ankers ... Gloria James Jessup
Charles Drake ... Mr. Dodd
Alan Napier ... Douglas Jessup
Ted Hecht ... Pasco
Henry Brandon ... Siko