Denny Miller Tarzan, The Ape MAn (1959) Movie

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Denny Miller

Miller was a basketball star at UCLA where his father was a physical education instructor. In his senior year, while working as a furniture mover to pay for school, he was discovered on Sunset Boulevard by a Hollywood Agent who signed him with MGM. He became the first blond Tarzan in "Tarzan the Apeman" 1959), a cheapie/quickie which lifted most of its footage from earlier Weissmuller movies. MGM had him under contract for 20 months; in that time he worked 8 weeks as Tarzan. After that he did guest spots on a number of TV Series, finally becoming a regular on "Wagon Train" as Duke Shannon (his name was then Scott Miller). In 1965-6 he starred (as Denny again) with Juliet Prowse in TV's "Mona McKluskey" series.

TARZAN, THE APE MAN (1959)

Credits: Directed by: Joseph M. Newman / Writing credits Robert Hill (III) / Denny Miller .... Tarzan + Cesare Danova .... Harry Holt + Joanna Barnes .... Jane Parker + Robert Douglas .... James Parker /

Synopsis: Notorious for the use of color tinted scenes from earlier black-and-white Weissmuller movies. Some critics rank it as the worst Tarzan movie. Miller's only Tarzan film. This movie has little connection with the 1932 original. It does, however, have lifted footage (tinted to more-or-less match the color), including obvious footage of Weissmuller's vine-swinging. Miller is not once called Tarzan in the movie, and his yell is also lifted Weissmuller. The elephants who wreck the pygmy village are lifted/tinted from the original, but the "pygmies" (real in the original) were kids from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles. Costumes are left over from "King Solomon's Mines" so that more stock footage could be lifted. And the crocodile fight is taken from "Tarzan and his Mate". Summary written by Ed Stephan

Description: VHS || 82 min. || Country: USA || Language: English || Color: (Technicolor)

Condition: very good quality picture

Price: $35

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