screen images / Tarzan Escapes / 1936 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

This third film starring Johnny Weissumuller as Tarzan begins with Jane's (Maureen O'Sullivan) two cousins arriving in Africa. With them is a hunter who wants to capture Tarzan so as to put him on public display. He makes a deal with a native tribe by offering them Jane and her cousins in exchange for allowing him to leave the jungle with a caged Tarzan. The hunter's plan goes wrong and Tarzan escapes from the cage with the help of elephants. The hunter attacks Tarzan but falls into a quicksand pit and perishes. A scene which had Tarzan fighting vampire bats was deleted prior to release after test audiences found it to be too frightning. Production stills exist from this scene but the footage appears to be lost.