Remember MGM’s Great Tarzan Movies?

Just For Fun…Remember MGM’s Great Tarzan Movies?

Here’s a rare shot of Johnny Weissmuller with his MGM crew on location in Florida at Silver Springs. That’s where they went when they needed great underwater footage. Otherwise, most of the six Tarzan films for MGM were shot around the Lake Sherwood area near Los Angeles. Other exterior shots included Sherwood Forest, where aerialist Alfredo Codona doubled for Weissmuller swinging through the trees.

The tree-house was first seen in ‘Tarzan Escapes’, and was built at Crater Camp, in what is now the Malibu Creek State Park, and duplicated on a stage at MGM. The interiors were on another sound stage.

Weismueller went on to make six more Tarzan movies for RKO which were noticeably lacking in production value as most of the filming was done on the famous “back 40 lot”. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee

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