Product Details

• Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Reginald Owen, Barry Fitzgerald
• Directors: Richard Thorpe
• Writers: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Myles Connolly, Paul Gangelin
• Producers: B.P. Fineman
• Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Warner)
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 81 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302605172
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #17,397 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Action packed adventure!!, January 17, 2001

By	Tuco (Phoenix, Az USA) - See all my reviews

This may not be one of the best of the Tarzan films as far as good film making goes, but it is definatley one of the most action packed. Lots of impressivley staged chases with lions and rhinos and a very athletic Boy make for an action packed hour and a half. Gotta love that stock footage of Africa!! Can someone please tell me what kind of bird that 'chicken' looking thing was? Was that a real bird or was it some kind of elaborate puppet? Simply amazing!! I've never seen anything like that in my life!! I find the three movies with Boy to be the most action and fun for repeated viewings and Tarzan and His Mate to be the best overall film. I just wish I could get Tarzan and the Leopard Women and Tarzan's Desert Mystery on VHS.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Fun and Exciting Tarzan Entry, August 4, 2008

By	Bobby Underwood "starlighthotel" (Bakersfield, California United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This is one of the very best of the Tarzan entries. MGM built an entire river and jungle covering eighty acres for this one and the underwater sequences shot in Florida are some of the best in this very popular series starring athletic Johnny Weissmuller as Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle hero and pretty Maureen O'Sullivan as his mate, Jane.

Everything about this one is top-notch. Cedric Gibbons was in charge of art direction and the screenplay from Myles Connolly and Paul Gangelin is excellent, offering plenty of drama and humor, and a bit of jungle romance. A superb cast of screen veterans, including Tom Conway, Reginald Owen, Philip Dorn, and Barry Fitzgerald, add excitement and adventure to the very successful Tarzan franchise.

Boy (Johnny Sheffield) discovers gold while on a morning swim with Tarzan and Jane and, intrigued by Jane's descriptions of all he could buy in civilization with it, sneaks out that night to get a peek at it. He befriends a young native boy (Cordell Hickman) from a dangerous tribe and must be saved from them by first an expedition seeking a more obscure tribe, then Tarzan who must come to their aid.

Heading back to Tarzan's home, Boy lets the cat out of the bag about the gold, and greed sets in for two members of the expedition, Medford (Tom Conway), and Vandemeer (Philip Dorn). Professor Elliot (Reginald Owen), the expedition leader, respects Tarzan's wish to forget about the gold, but when the plague strikes both he and Boy, Jane and Boy will be the leverage Medford and Vandemeer need to make Tarzan show them an entire mountain of gold.

Thinking Tarzan dead, a dangerous exit from the jungle by river ensues, and only Tarzan and his many jungle friends can help save them from a tribe so dangerous their drums strike fear in other tribes. There is a very exciting and action filled finale to this one. And the ending is quite a lot of fun, as it appears Tarzan has made a new friend also, in the very Irish expedition member, O'Doul (Barry Fitzgerald).

While it begins in an easygoing manner, there is lots of fun and drama in one of the most atmospheric entries in this fine series. And a romantic moonlight swim offers some nice moments between Weissmuller and O'Sullivan. An excellent adventure film on its own, and a very special installment in one of the most popular series in film history.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Boy find gold. Boy and Jane captured. Tarzan find Boy and Jane. Rescue same., November 17, 2003

By	Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (COMMUNITY FORUM 04)

The 1941 film "Tarzan's Secret Treasure" is the fifth of the twelve Tarzan movies featuring former Olympic swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller as the Ape Man. Weissmuller might not have been the definitive Tarzan, especially for anyone who read the original novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, but he certainly ended up being the most memorable. In "Tarzan's Secret Treasure," Boy (Johnny Sheffield) finds gold at the bottom of the local river and when Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) explains what it is and what it can buy in the more civilized parts of the world, Boy takes off to take advantage of his windfall. Of course, before Boy can find trouble, trouble finds him, in the form of Professor Elliott (Reginald Owen) and O'Doul (Barry Fitzgerald), a group of researchers eager to study the son of Tarzan, who happen to have a couple of villain in their midst in the form of Medford (Tom Conway) and Vandermeer (Philip Dorn). Eventually native and elephants become involved in the narrative as well.

The death of Irving Thalberg affected this film as budget cuts forced the use of stock shots taken from earlier movies in the series (e.g., the recycled Tarzan fights the crocodile scene). Add to that the predictable plotline and you would think that would be enough to make this a below average Tarzan movie. But it actually scores above average because of the pacing, the solid supporting cast (Fitzgerald calls the Ape Man "Mr. Tarzan"), and the fact that Sullivan still looks like the queen of the jungle. The idea of Boy wanting to make it to the big city was revitalized the following year for one of the best of these films, "Tarzan's New York Adventure." If you are currently watching the new "Tarzan" series on the WB, then that is one you will want to track down to see what it was like the first time Tarzan prowled a big modern city.