Tarzan and the Amazons
Tarzan and the Amazons
NR | 29 April 1945 (USA)
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A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.

Reviews
Alicia I love this movie so much
Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?
Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
billlucc After Athena (Shirley O'Hara) is stabbed with the knife, you are able to see it when she is hitting the gong.
dbborroughs Jane is back! Tarzan and Boy head off to pick her up on the boat from England. Along they way they save an Amazon from some big cats. Injured in a fall, Tarzan takes her home and talks his way out of being forced to stay. The meeting with Jane is as expected and after some introductions of new friends Jane, Boy and Tarzan head home. Unfortunately there are ripples from an Amazon bracelet that Cheetah found and Jane's new friends end up with. It sets them on a trip to the Amazon city...or would have had Tarzan agreed to take them. Tarzan refuses because he knows its all about the gold. Boy doesn't realize whats at stake and helps them find the city...and great danger.Large scale Tarzan film looks in many ways more spectacular than the earlier and much larger budget MGM films. Its just cool that we have so many neat locations like the tree house, the river station and the Amazon city. It looks really cool and makes it feel like a solid adventure.There is a maturity to this film that is missing from many of the other films. What I like about the film is it deals with the effect of Jane's being away and her return after years, there is the maturing of Boy and his need to learn more than Tarzan can teach him and there is the hardening of Tarzan as he watches coldly as some of the bad guys die horribly. Its several levels above what was happening in the MGM films and much better for it.Worth searching out.
BA_Harrison Once again, the African jungle proves to be THE place to find hot, English speaking women: not only is it home to Jane, who has finally returned from Europe after extensive plastic surgery and a dye job, and Princess Zandra of the hidden city of Palandria (from Tarzan Triumphs), but it's also where a tribe of gorgeous, brunette, man-hating Amazonian warriors live in secret, in yet another hidden city situated behind a huge range of mountains (quite how they got there from South America is never really explained).When Tarzan refuses to reveal the whereabouts of the city to members of a scientific expedition, Boy stupidly decides to help them, and before you can say 'Ungawa', the Amazon women have themselves some new workers to toil in their fields. Unwilling to spend the rest of their natural lives in slavery, the men attempt a daring escape, but as they are leaving, several members of the expedition unwisely decide to help themselves to some of the tribe's gold and its not long before the angry women are in pursuit with arrows a-flying.A definite improvement on Weissmuller's previous adventure, Tarzan's Desert Mystery, this film wisely goes back to basics with a standard jungle setting, untrustworthy outsiders, animal hi-jinx from Cheetah, and even a good old crocodile wrestling scene! It might not be all that original, but it's never boring. If the ending hadn't been so weak, with Tarzan turning up at the city long after the party has finished and happily collecting Boy from the Amazon women without a fuss, this film would have been a straight 7/10. Instead, I give it 6.5 (which gets rounded up to 7 for IMDb anyway!).
NewEnglandPat This jungle adventure was a popular Saturday matinée entry and has a simple but effective plot of archaeologists looking for a mysterious city of a warrior tribe of women. The white hunters are searching for wealth and riches believed to be in the domain of the Amazons and convince Tarzan's son to guide them to the hidden valley. Tarzan and Jane quarrel about Boy's involvement with the safari because the jungle man knows that the intruders are headed for trouble when they encounter the Amazons. Johnny Weissmuller was winding down in his role as Tarzan but is good as always as the king of the jungle. Brenda Joyce is okay in her first role as Jane and Johnny Sheffield is the troublesome youngster who disobeys Tarzan. Barton MacClane is good as the heavy and Cheetah is along for some scene-stealing fun.