TARZAN AND THE LOST SAFARI
Curious to know if anybody has any clear recollections of seeing this film in CinemaScope. I saw this film in the UK and really don't remember. I've seen a lot of poster art which advertises it as...
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Filmed in 1956 in both a CinemaScope 2.35:1 version and a 1.37:1 "flat" version. The UK theatrical release in the summer of 1958 was of the CinemaScope version, but subsequent television showings in...
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tonyrivers wrote: Filmed in 1956 in both a CinemaScope 2.35:1 version and a 1.37:1 "flat" version. The UK theatrical release in the summer of 1958 was of the CinemaScope version, but subsequent...
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Then version I saw in the theater in the US in 1957 was NOT in CinemaScope. So there must have been two versions made.
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Another confirmation that the film was shown in the UK (at the ABC Empire,Longton, Stoke-on-Trent) in CinemaScope: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35455749@N06/7294511434/in/photostream/
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I did some research on the film, when I was in the UK, going through old Kine Weekly magazines. Originally the film was planned as an RKO Radio release in a process called RKO-Scope, and as far as I...
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Doug Raynes wrote:Here's the Spanish poster which, like the UK version, states "in Cinemascope". That poster is Belgian. It's mostly in French, with the movie title at the bottom in Dutch.
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Since I began reading Burroughs in the late 50's, this film was near enough to the literary apeman, I am sure a positive with followers of the series.
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Ogle, doesn't Lord Greystoke still speak "Me Tarzan - you Jane" here? Isn't it in Scott's next two terrific ones that he's more Burroughsesque? -Craig
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Totally agreeable, Scott doe however mention the past great ape family. I was twelve years, the Burrough's novel was The Return of Tarzan, and severely edited Weissmuller reruns on the tube didn't...
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Craig: No it was Scott's last two Tarzan films he acted more like Burroughs" ape man. LOST SAFARI was Scott's second Tarzan movie and Sol Lesser was still the producer (Sol is uncredited on Lost...
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Thanks, Tony. I'd forgotten how many Scott did - and I've only seen parts of some of the earlier ones. MAGNIFICENT and GREATEST are by far my favorite Tarzan movies, ranking with Kubert's comics on my...
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Apparently Burroughs had no say in the Sol Lesser Tarzan's, reading Burrough's auto leaves me puzzled, the author gives up everything once theproduct is in the hands of the studios. I guess this is...
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Actually Burroughs was unhappy with the additions and changes to his stories in the silent movies so when MGM came a-calling, ERB made sure MGM couldn't adapt any of his stories in their films. TARZAN...
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Curiously, there was a "novelization" of Tarzan and the Lost Safari, a profusely-illustrated "big-little" type book from Whitman. It matched, in format, a couple of abridged adaptations of actual...
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I had a copy of that book when I was a kid. I think it was a birthday present.
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I still have my copy of that Whitman book with Scott on the cover and there was actually a second edition with a cover that had artwork on it that was published in 1966. Supposedly the uncredited...
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Fritz Leiber also wrote an ersatz Tarzan - VALLEY OF GOLD.
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And there was also a TV tie-in book to TARZAN: THE EPIC ADVENTURES by R.A. Salvatore which I also have. Not to mention some of ERB's paperback books had Ron Ely covers when that show was being...
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Stephen Pickard wrote: I did some research on the film, when I was in the UK, going through old Kine Weekly magazines. Originally the film was planned as an RKO Radio release in a process called...
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