The Tarzan Collection: Starring Gordon Scott

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955)

Former Las Vegas hotel lifeguard Gordon Scott makes the first of his six screen appearances as the jungle king in this action-packed tale, defending a tribe’s sacred animals from poachers posing as wildlife photographers and saving a local doctor and his nurse. Vera Miles, Jack Elam, Peter van Eyck also star. 73 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Tarzan And The Lost Safari (1957)

If an airplane crashes in the jungle, does Tarzan hear it? You bet, and in this adventure (the first in the series filmed in color) the mighty ape man (Gordon Scott) leads the five survivors on a perilous trek to safety. With Robert Beatty, Yolande Donlan, and Wilfred Hyde-White. 80 min. C/Rtg: NR

Tarzan And The Trappers (1958)

Edited from episodes of a planned Tarzan TV show, this series entry has the jungle lord (Gordon Scott) battling a pair of brothers poaching wildlife and finding himself the sinister siblings’ next target. Lesley Bradley, Saul Gorse, and Eve Brent as Jane also star. 70 min. BW/Rtg: NR

Tarzan's Fight For Life (1958)

It’s not just his own life that Gordon Scott’s Tarzan must fight for in this exciting jungle tale, but also the life of a tribe’s ailing boy ruler, who is about to be given a fatal dose of poison that a jealous witch doctor had stolen from a medical clinic. With Eve Brent, James Edwards, Woody Strode. 86 min. C/Rtg: NR

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)

Tarzan (Gordon Scott) faces the challenge of tracking down a gang of murderous diamond hunters (including Anthony Quayle and a pre-007 Sean Connery) while also safeguarding an impetuous female pilot (Sara Shane) who tags along. Franchise-altering actioner that offered a more adult-oriented, true-to-text take on Burroughs’ jungle lord--as well as thrilling location filming in Africa--also stars Niall MacGinnis, Scilla Gabel, Al Mulock. 87 min. C/Rtg: NR

Tarzan The Magnificent (1960)

When the boat on which they’re traveling is blown up, Tarzan (Gordon Scott, in his sixth and final turn as the ape man) must lead a killer (future film Tarzan Jock Mahoney) and the boat’s passengers through the jungle to the authorities, all the while pursued by Mahoney’s father and brothers. John Carradine, Lionel Jeffries, Betta St. John also star. 87 min. C/Rtg: NR