A doctor calls on Tarzan to topple the native witch doctor whose black magic remedies are killing patients.A doctor calls on Tarzan to topple the native witch doctor whose black magic remedies are killing patients.A doctor calls on Tarzan to topple the native witch doctor whose black magic remedies are killing patients.
Roy Glenn
- Native Chief
- (uncredited)
Paulene Myers
- Native Mother
- (uncredited)
Nick Stewart
- Molo
- (uncredited)
Milton Wood
- Temple Native
- (uncredited)
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- Writers
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- TriviaDuring African location filming with Miki Carter for this mostly studio-bound film, Gordon Scott got along well with some natives involved in the movie. A Masai warrior nicknamed him "Mtu Ule Na Panda Mitu Minegu" (Warrior Who Climbs Tall Trees).
- GoofsTartu is hacking away at a dugout canoe with a machete as though he has been building it and is just finishing it up. Only problem is, the canoe appears finished and is very weathered and gray in color, but on the very end where Tartu is shaving some wood off with his machete, he is revealing fresh pale wood color that stands out against the rest of the weathered wood. So he is clearly just pretending to be working on an old finished canoe.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Biography: Tarzan: The Legacy of Edgar Rice Burroughs (1996)
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If you grew up watching Johnny Weismuller in those action packed programmers, this is just painful to watch. There are a few scenes of waterfalls, etc. that are nice but in the older films they used stock footage of wilderness along with wild African animals stampeding and attacking which in itself evoked a sense of danger utterly missing here. The pacing in the earlier films was quick and exciting while here, everyone sleepwalks through the entire movie with wooden acting by all involved. Action scenes are bland and suspense is nil. Gordon Scott is great eye candy but stinks up every scene he is in. Granted, it is not as noticeable as it could have been since all the other actors are doing the same thing. I hated seeing a dynamic character actor like Woody Strode stuck in this awful flick. He looked like he hated it too. I guess we all have to make a living.
- dpoppyman1
- Sep 23, 2011
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- Also known as
- Tarzans Kampf ums Leben
- Filming locations
- Burney Falls, McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park - Highway 89, Burney, California, USA(Canoe goes over the waterfall)
- Production company
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,569,600
- Gross worldwide
- $4,458,100
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
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By what name was Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958) officially released in Canada in English?
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