Ed-Shullivan Well the story lines may be very predictable but you just can't beat a late night movie with Johnny Weissmuller, the five time Olympic gold medal winner playing in his recurring role of Tarzan. In this film the civilized city dweller Jane (played by Brenda Joyce) befriends a couple of so called archeologists who want Tarzan to take them to the fantasy world inhabited by the Amazon woman deep in the jungle.When Tarzan refuses to be their guide and take these suspicious characters deep into the Amazon jungle, Boy (Johnny Sheffield) agrees to substitute himself as their jungle guide and direct them to the hidden fortress where the Amazon woman live and seem to thrive without men.It doesn't take long for these greedy archeologists to show their true reasons for wanting to find the Amazon women's fortress, and that reason is for the treasures that the Amazon woman possess. So the film contains family values, greedy treasure hunters, good looking Amazon woman, Tarzan to the rescue, and of course Cheetah the chimpanzee getting into his usual mischief. It is another very good action/adventure film for all the Tarzan fans out there.I give it a solid 7 out of 10 rating some 73 years after the films original release date.

billlucc After Athena (Shirley O'Hara) is stabbed with the knife, you are able to see it when she is hitting the gong.

MartinHafer Johnny Weissmuller made a name for himself as Tarzan at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio. However, and I am not sure why, Weissmuller and 'Boy' (Johnny Sheffield) jumped from this prestige studio to the less than stellar RKO--where the budgets shrank considerably as did the quality. The scripts got a lot more weird and the films became chock full of poorly integrated stock footage and animals that often weren't even African. Additionally, 'Jane' (Maureen O'Sullivan) remained at MGM and a new leading lady needed to be found. After having the character be 'off on vacation in England' or 'helping with the war effort' in a couple films, RKO decided to re-cast this character with Brenda Joyce--who bore little similarity to O'Sullivan.Early in the film Tarzan happens upon an Amazon lady who is being chased by leopards. She's injured her leg and Tarzan insists on carrying her back to her Amazon city. However, apparently it's taboo to either leave the town or enter it if you are an outsider. Fortunately, the Amazon Priestess knows that Tarzan can be trusted and apparently he's the only outsider they ever let leave the city alive.A bit later, Jane arrives from one of her many trips and brings with her some friends. Unfortunately, these hunters turn out to be headed for disaster when they see a bracelet left by the Amazon who Tarzan rescued--and they decide to try to find this Amazon kingdom themselves! But, Tarzan wisely refuses to help them--especially since some of them (Ballister in particular) are real jerks! Oddly, Ballister is played by Barton MacLane--the same actor who re-appears in "Tarzan and the Huntress" but he plays a different character--even though he dies in "Tarzan and the Amazons"! Considering that these two films were only made a couple years apart, you do wonder why they chose him for both films. And, now that I think of it, Henry Stephenson (a wonderful character actor) was also in "Tarzan Finds a Son!"--and was killed in that film--yet appears in this one a few years later! Despite these odd casting problems, this film actually turns out to be a pretty good one--though they never explain how a group of very white women happened to be living in the heart of Africa! The film lacks the bad stock footage of some of the other RKO Tarzan films and at least the black natives are black--and not Mexicans like in the studio's last film in the series (well after it had 'jumped the shark'). In addition, the film is well written and quite entertaining--one of the last ones like this in the series.

xnet95 I remember watching old Tarzan movies as a child, so I decided to check this movie out and see if they were as good as I remembered. What a mistake! This movie was boring beyond all belief. It was like watching Ozzie and Harriet in the jungle. The title is "Tarzan and the Amazons", not "An Intimate and Tedious Look at the Minutia of Tarzan's Family Life".On the plus side, the time that was spent in the Amazon's hidden city was good. The matte used to depict the craggy mountains in the distance was mysterious and nicely done. The sets that show Tarzan traveling through those mountains showed the harshness and isolation of the area. The city, with its strange god and creepy priestess, was interesting. The big problem was that these sections only added up to about a third of the movie, while the boring family scenes took up the rest. The producer really dropped the ball on this one. There was so much potential wasted here. It could've been an imaginative romp through a strange world, but they chose to constantly show Cheetah fishing and acting like an idiot, and Boy sweeping the tree-house, and... Plus, the big dramatic ending seems totally rushed, and happens in a flash. If you blink, you'll miss it. It's like they said to themselves, "Oops, we spent too much time on the family stuff, we're at 1:15, we better cut it off now. No one will notice." Well, I guess they were right seeing how many "10" votes this lame movie got. Do you people actually think this deserves to be up there with Citizen Kane, the Shawshank Redemption, and the Godfather?This is a lame movie with zealous and stupid fans. Don't waste your time with either...