Tarzan’s Savage Fury ** (1952, Lex Barker, Dorothy Hart, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 8043

Director Cy Endfield’s 1952 Tarzan’s Savage Fury is the sixteenth in the series, and stars Lex Barker as Tarzan in his fourth outing following Tarzan’s Magic Fountain (1949), Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950) and Tarzan’s Peril (1951).

This time Barker is more sombre than savage as the jungle king, who leads a jungle expedition in search of a fortune in diamonds that two crooks, posing as British government agents, allege are needed by England to buy arms for its military security.

Tarzan’s Savage Fury is a merely routine adventure, though it is amusing enough, and capably directed by Endfield, who later made Zulu.

Also in the cast are Dorothy Hart as Jane, Patric Knowles as English traitor Edwards, Charles Korvin as Russian agent Rokov and Tommy Carlton as Joseph ‘Joey’ Martin. Joey is of course Boy’s substitute.

Tarzan’s Savage Fury (1952) is followed with Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953).

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