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Tarzan the Tiger
Also known as Tarzan og Opars Juveler in Denmark
(1929-1930) United States of America
B&W : Serial / 15 chapters
Directed by Henry MacRae

Cast: Frank Merrill [Tarzan / the Earl of Greystoke], Natalie Kingston [Jane], Al Ferguson [Albert Werper], Mademoiselle Kithnou [Queen La of Opar, the High Priestess of the Sun Worshipers], Paul Panzer [Mohammed Bey], Clive Morgan [Philip Annersley], Sheldon Lewis [Achmet Zek], Frank Lanning [the witch doctor], Charles Gemora [Taglat the Gorilla / Chulk the Gorilla]

Adventure Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation. / Continuity (scenario) by Ian McClosky Heath + [William Lord Wright], from the novel Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Production supervision by William Lord Wright. Art directors Charles D. Hall and David S. Garper. Photographer (cinematography by) Wilfrid Cline. Film editor, Malcolm Dewar. Titles (intertitles written) by Ford I. Beebe. Synchronization and score (music score) by Bert Fiske (chapters 1-10, 12) and David Broekman (chapters 11, 13-15). Recording supervision by C. Roy Hunter. Presented by Adventure Pictures, Incorporated. / 15 chapters: [1] “Call of the Jungle,” released 9 December 1929; [2] “The Road to Opar,” released 16 December 1929; [3] “The Altar of the Flaming God,” released 23 December 1929; [4] “The Vengeance of La,” released 30 December 1929; [5] “Condemned to Death,” released 6 January 1930; [6] “Tantor the Terror,” released 13 January 1930; [7] “In Deadly Peril,” released 20 January 1930; [8] “The Loop of Death,” released 27 January 1930; [9] “The Flight of Werper,” released 3 February 1930; [10] “Prisoner of the Apes,” released 10 February 1930; [11] “The Jaws of Death,” released 17 February 1930; [12] “The Jewels of Opar,” released 24 February 1930; [13] “A Human Sacrifice,” released 3 March 1930; [14] “Tarzan’s Rage,” released 10 March 1930; [15] “Tarzan’s Triumph,” released 17 March 1930. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Western Electric [?] Vitaphone sound-on-disc? synchronized sound system. / Cast attributions for Lillian Worth as Queen La are in error. Edmonds-BigU p. 153 mistakenly lists the serial length at ten chapters. The serial was released in Denmark as Tarzan og Opars Juveler beginning 12 May 1930. / Silent film, with synchronized music and sound effects.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positives].

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Keywords: Amnesia - Characters: Tarzan - Serials - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 26 April 2020.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Edmonds-BigU p. 153; Lahue-Continued pp. 151, 274, 288; Stedman-Serials pp. 57-58 : Website-SerSq.

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