Tarzan And His Mate #33

With peace restored, Tarzan and Jane return to their idyllic jungle life, blissfully unaware that another safari up to no good will be arriving in a few more years. Like TARZAN THE APE MAN, TARZAN AND HIS MATE was produced primarily for adult audiences and is considered by many to be the BEST of the MGM Tarzan films. Everything was done on a much more elaborate scale than the first film, and some of the action sequences are fairly intense and/or gruesome, even by today’s standards. (If the current rating system had been in place back then, it would probably have been rated PG or PG-13!) To placate the censors, the film was heavily edited at the time of its original release. Years later, when Ted Turner took over the MGM library, a print of the original, uncut film was discovered in the vaults. It is this version that is now available to the home video market. Beginning with TARZAN ESCAPES (1936), the MGM series began to lose much of its excitement and adult content. (The studio ended up reshooting much of that film after parents' groups complained about all the violence, mayhem and scary images it contained.) By the time TARZAN FINDS A SON was made in 1939, MGM’s Tarzan films were being produced strictly for family audiences, with tame action scenes and more and more footage being allotted to the antics of the chimp. (CONCLUDED)