SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Spikeopath The second of the MGM Tarzan movies should be heralded as one of the finest adventure films in cinematic history. A sequel to Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), it brings back Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan as Tarzan and Jane respectively, and then runs through scene after scene of pre-code and pre-computer effects excellence.Plot line is weak, but it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of entertainment things. Basically greedy ivory hunter Martin Arlington (Paul Cavanagh) and Harry Holt (Neil Hamilton as Jane's one time beau who has lost her to Lord of the Apes) travel into the jungle in search of Mutia Escarpment - the elephant burial grounds. Tarzan and Jane arrive on the scene after 20 minutes of film, which is the cue for Jane to make the two Khaki Fatigue wearing lads hot under the collar, and for Tarzan to literally have to fight for his woman - the animals - and his life!What unfolds in 105 minutes of film is a tale of simmering sexuality, raw animal instincts, brutal battles and some Simian scene stealing. Cedric Gibbons originally directed the picture, well he was there until MGM realised he wasn't up to the task and replaced him with a criminally uncredited Jack Conway, and Conway (The Easiest Way) was just the man to curl the toes of those waiting in the wings at censorship city.OK! The sexy angle is hard to ignore, and why anyone with a pulse would want to is anyone's guess! O'Sullivan is barely covered and Weismuller is in such fine shape he makes me wish I had never discovered booze and junk food! There is rumble in the jungle as Tarzan and Jane go for a swim, as he blows on her hair to wake her up (oh she sleeps in the raw by the way), and as the city boys revel in getting Jane to once again wear a "city" dress. This is just a point of reference to make us aware that the one time city girl has thrown off her sexual inhibitions and gone natural up in the tree tops. And did I mention a sexy silhouette scene? No? Well I have now.So, casting aside the wonderful eroticism of it all, as an action film it's also superb. The technical tools available in the early 1930s are used to the max here, it matters not about dummies being flung about the place, or that men in monkey suits fill in while Cheetah is off having a smoke! Or even that the back projection work will appear crude to the X-Box generation, this is film making craft that enchanted those film lovers queueing at the theatre to see this back in 1934. Watching it now demands the utmost respect and admiration.So, get ready for a native army who during their attacks specialise in firing arrows into the heads of the enemy. For Gorilla's who love to use boulders as weapons. For Tarzan to fight a lion, a crocodile and a rhinoceros. Watch in awe as there is Pachyderm Pandemonium, a pride of lions menacing our Jane, classy chimps proving smarter than your average human, and of course there are high grade gymnastics evident as well.The Hays Code would soon come into play and dilute the Tarzan series, but still being able to see these early MGM Tarzan movies is akin to going to a film museum where only the open minded are invited. Wonderful. 10/10

bkoganbing Tarzan And His Mate was the second of MGM's Tarzan series and we find Maureen O'Sullivan settled down to jungle bliss with Johnny Weissmuller without benefit of clergy. In the first film Tarzan The Ape Man, Jane after her father died decided to stay with Tarzan and her guide and suitor Neil Hamilton went back to civilization.Now Hamilton is back with a partner, wolfish Paul Cavanaugh who is in business with Hamilton to discover the elephant's graveyard, that legendary place where the elephants go to die and there's tons of ivory to be picked up. That's a lot of piano keys. He's hoping to enlist Tarzan's help with Jane's help.As it involves old friends she gets Tarzan to agree. Hamilton still likes her, but keeps a distance. Not Cavanaugh who is acting in the best Snidely Whiplash tradition. This is the only Tarzan film I remember where Tarzan's domestic bliss is threatened.Lots of Trader Horn stock footage is used and effectively. Best scenes involve Tarzan taking on a rhino and the final climax where O'Sullivan, Cavanaugh, and Hamilton are all threatened by lions being sicced on them by a hostile tribe. Nicely done if a bit way out.Tarzan And His Mate also features the famous nude swim scene with Weissmuller and O'Sullivan. When the Code came in this scene was edited out, but fortunately restored for these less puritanical times. Definitely one of the better Tarzan features.

Ben Larson Scandalous! Pre-production code, this film has Tarzan and Jane sharing quarters even though they were not married, Jane running around in an outfit that barely covered her, and they even skinny-dipped. Tame stuff today, but it brought about an enforcement of the movie production code and the film was edited before release. Fortunately, the complete movie exists and we can see what all the hullabaloo was about.Seeing Tarzan fight the rhino or the crocodile was worth the price of admission. It was thrilling. Of course, with Jane, it seems he was always fighting something.The real stars of the movie were the animals, especially Cheeta.

robgar71 (Warning! This contains spoiler!) The costume Jane wears is just a loincloth, of the same type Tarzan wears. It consists of a belt and a piece of cloth that goes between the legs and with enough material to allow for a flap in front and another one in the back. Therefore, Jane's costume does not consist, as erroneously pointed out, of just two flaps hanging from a belt and nothing underneath. The pubes are perfectly well covered; most of the area of the buttocks is also covered. This inner part of the loincloth that goes between the legs is no narrower than the thong bathing suits or thong underwear, and certainly no narrower than a g-string garment. If you were to look at it from the side, the loincloth would look roughly like a letter M: the two vertical lines make out the front and back flaps and the two slanted lines make out the "thong." In the scene with the lions, near the end of the movie (starting at 1:38:13), Jane's pubes are not exposed at all. The thing is that the movie is black and white and in the scene mentioned the "thong" shows up very pale gray and it may look as if it does not exist at all, so people say "Jane's pubes are exposed." Well, nothing of this sort. Examine other scenes where the "thong" is clearly shown: • At 24:31 Jane jumps and lands into Tarzan's arms. You can see the loincloth's inner portion as the back flop has moved sideways to Jane's right and uncovers the inner portion. • At 54:43, as the leopard approaches, Jane gets up. A bit of the right part of the "thong" is revealed. • At 55:22 (scene with the crocodile, as Jane flips and turns, the "thong" shows clearly. Also at 55:35-39. • At 1:26:14, as Jane and the hunters run from the tribe, her back flap lifts up and the "thong" shows clearly. • Just after the scene with the lions, Jane climbs onto the rocks and at 1:38:48 you can see a bit of the "thong" from underneath.Each of the few times the "thong" shows lasts very little. And the pubes are always concealed.