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Tarzan's Peril: Directed by Byron Haskin. With Lex Barker, Virginia Huston, George Macready, Douglas Fowley. Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.
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- 1951-03-13
Tarzan's Peril is a 1951 film directed by Byron Haskin and starring Lex Barker as Tarzan and Virginia Huston as Jane, and featuring Dorothy Dandridge as "Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba."
Tarzan, Jane and Cheetah, who are traveling by canoe, spot Andrews just as some crocodiles are about to attack him, and Tarzan swims to Andrews' rescue. Tarzan pulls the unconscious Andrews to shore, where Cheetah discovers Peters' watch, an object with which the chimp has long been fascinated.
After the coronation of Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba, the dangerous escaped convict and ruthless gunrunner, Radijeck, embarks on a mission to deliver a large shipment of guns to King Bulam right under the nose of retiring Commissioner Peters.
Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Byron Haskin. Francis Swann. Samuel Newman.
Tarzan's Peril is a 1951 film starring Lex Barker as Tarzan and Virginia Huston as Jane, and featuring Dorothy Dandridge as "Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba." Some of it was shot in Kenya, making it the first Tarzan movie to be filmed in Africa, though the majority of its location shooting was done in the United States.
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Tarzan's Peril is an odd movie—because Tarzan doesn't even appear for the first 15 minutes! An evil criminal named Radijeck has escaped prison—and the hangman's noose. He is intent on continuing to sell illegal guns to the local tribes, and he even kills two British officials who get in his way.
