screenshots / Tarzan Finds a Son! / 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Orginal title: Tarzan in Exile

Tarzan finds an infant boy (the lone survivor of a plane crash) whom he and Jane raise as their own son.

Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan) and Maureen O'Sullivan (Jane) return for the fourth film of the series with Johnny Sheffield making his first screen appearance as Boy.

Johnny Sheffield claimed that Weissmuller picked him for the role and that the former Olympic swimmer and water polo player also taught him how to swim.

As originally scripted the film had Jane dying from a wound caused by a spear, but test screening audiences objected to her death so the ending was changed with her recovering.

In the role of Sir Thomas Lancing, actor Henry Stephenson would be cast six years later in Tarzan and the Amazons (1945) in the role of Sir Guy Henderson.

Forty years later, actor Henry Wilcoxon (Mr. Sande) appeared in the 1979 TV-movie The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan which starred Marc Singer (The Beastmaster).

The elephants used in the climactic stampede scene were provided by the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, which was based in Peru, Indiana.

The production filmed on the Metro-Goldwyn-Studios backlot in Culver City, California, and on location at Silver Springs and Crystal Springs in Florida.