``The Tarzan Collection Volume 2'' Debuts October 31 from Warner Home Video.BURBANK, Calif. -- Johnny Weissmuller Johnny Weissmuller (June 2 1904 – January 20 1984) was an American swimmer and actor who was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal. He won fifty-two US National Championships and set sixty-seven world records. swings back into action with Warner Home Video's "The Tarzan Collection Volume 2" debuting on October 31. Following the huge success of WHV's first Weissmuller Tarzan set in 2004, this new DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. collection includes the home video debut of Weissmuller's last six Tarzan films, presented on three double-feature discs. Originally made at RKO RKO Radio Keith Orpheum (movie studio) RKO Randy Keith Orton (wrestling) RKO Relativistic Klystron Oscillator RKO Rural King Ohio (farm supply store) , these films feature actress Brenda Joyce Brenda D. Joyce is a best-selling American author of romance novels. Not to be confused with Brenda Joyce (actress). Biography Brenda D. Joyce, who is a native of New York, wrote her first novella when she was sixteen, and finished her first novel at twenty-five. , assuming the role of Tarzan's beloved Jane. Although other actors would later play the role, these films exemplify why Weissmuller, the five-time Olympic champion, was the definitive Tarzan. Weissmuller starred in 12 Tarzan features for both MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. and RKO. This collection features "Tarzan Triumphs"/"Tarzan's Desert Mystery," "Tarzan and the Amazons"/"Tarzan and the Leopard Woman" and "Tarzan and the Huntress"/"Tarzan and the Mermaids." These six films, which were never available on videocassette A removable magnetic tape module for storing video data. The cassette contains supply and takeup reel (hubs) in the same housing. See VCR. , are all new to DVD, and will sell as a collection only, for $39.92 SRP SRP - A data link layer protocol. . "Tarzan Triumphs" (1943)/"Tarzan's Desert Mystery" (1943) "Tarzan Triumphs": World War II? That's the way of civilized people, not Tarzan. He refuses to be involved until the Nazis make the mistake of striking at the Ape-Man's family. Tarzan's help with the war effort continues in "Tarzan's Desert Mystery," as Tarzan crosses the Sahara to find medicinal plants needed by the Allies. "Tarzan and the Amazons" (1945)/"Tarzan and the Leopard Woman" (1946) When the jungle lord refuses to lead anthropologists to a mysterious female tribe, Boy does, setting in motion the plot twists and turns of "Tarzan and the Amazons." Are brutal maulings the results of leopard attacks? The Ape-Man doesn't think so, and his instincts prove right as he faces murderous leopard men and their exotic priestess in "Tarzan and the Leopard Woman." "Tarzan and the Huntress" (1947)/"Tarzan and the Mermaids" (1948) "Tarzan and the Huntress": Expeditioners aim to harvest animals for profit, capturing them for zoos without regard for the balance of jungle life. In "Tarzan and the Mermaids," Weissmuller bids his final farewell to the role of the Ape-Man, but not before rescuing a lovely maiden from a forced marriage, tangling with a giant octopus and restoring harmony to a community of pure-hearted pearl divers. |
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