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Tarzan: Happy 130th Birthday
onthisday.com ^ | November 22, 2018 | CaliforniaCraftBeer

Posted on 11/22/2018 1:40:23 PM PST by CaliforniaCraftBeer

Tarzan (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer. Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan first appeared in the novel Tarzan of the Apes (magazine publication 1912, book publication 1914), and subsequently in 25 sequels, several authorized books by other authors, and innumerable works in other media, both authorized and unauthorized. The film version of Tarzan as the noble savage (“Me Tarzan, You Jane”), as acted by Johnny Weissmuller, does not reflect the original character in the novels, who is gracious and highly sophisticated.


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To: BuffaloJack
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41 posted on 11/22/2018 3:49:31 PM PST by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: MrEdd
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42 posted on 11/22/2018 3:57:33 PM PST by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: ArtDodger; TexasKamaAina

I also reread Conan a year or two ago (complete Robert E. Howard on the Kindle, cheap) and it did hold up well. A few years back, I reread two Tarzan books, and sadly, they did not. Same with Doc Savage.

I have to admit I loved all of them 50 years ago.


43 posted on 11/22/2018 3:58:47 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Ransomed

Did you ever read Lord of the Trees by Farmer? It was a companion piece to The Mad Goblin, but the latter featured a version of Doc Savage. The two books told the same story from different points of view; I first found them together as an Ace Double. Fun stuff.


44 posted on 11/22/2018 4:04:32 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Tijeras_Slim
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45 posted on 11/22/2018 4:15:45 PM PST by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: ArtDodger

Loved it. Had an Indiana Jones feel for its time.


46 posted on 11/22/2018 4:16:34 PM PST by Fledermaus (If the rule of law no longer exist, then what is the point? The left wins.)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I did as well and still have sixty or so of the Doc Savage books.
I also have fourteen of Walter Gibson’s Shadow stories. Those hold up much better.


47 posted on 11/22/2018 4:21:47 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Maureen O’Sullivan in that 1934 thong must have had parents covering their kids’ eyes or sending them to the lobby for popcorn. Happened to me when Ursula Andress took it all off in “The Blue Max”.

The Catholic Legion of Decency was formed that same year and Hollywood took note. Coincidence?

Going to see a movie on the `C’ (condemned) list was a mortal sin. Naturally, Catholic kids like me went to see just why Brigitte Bardot in “And God Created Woman” was on the list.


48 posted on 11/22/2018 4:51:24 PM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Nope, but I was aware that Farmer did lots of pulp pastiches/expansions. The ace doubles were really cool, I have a handful of ones by the great Jack Vance.

Freegards


49 posted on 11/22/2018 5:24:21 PM PST by Ransomed
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To: ArtDodger

Campy but fun movie Doc Savage.


50 posted on 11/22/2018 5:59:03 PM PST by wally_bert (I will competently make sure the thing is done incompetently.)
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To: MrEdd

He was fiercely loyal.


51 posted on 11/22/2018 6:07:14 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: elcid1970
The thong wasn't the only thing about Maureen (or her body double) that had parents covering their kids' eyes.


The swimming scene from "Tarzan and his Mate"

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52 posted on 11/22/2018 6:14:57 PM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

No movie every made has come anywhere even close to the novels.


53 posted on 11/22/2018 6:50:23 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

anyone see the one with Chris Lambert? Was that close?


54 posted on 11/22/2018 7:00:18 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: MrEdd

The books would be considered racist now. Tarzan said some mean things about the Natives!


55 posted on 11/22/2018 7:07:32 PM PST by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer
At least the first 4 Tarzan books are available for free on Kindle.

The PC nonsense is everywhere of course now. ERB wrote highly readable entertaining books. Naturally he is condemned now by the Ministry of Truth representatives. What a load.

The Mucker was a character in 2 books, which somehow reminded me of the movie Citizen Kane and the character Gail Wynand from ‘The Fountainhead,’ or perhaps the Harold Robbins ‘A Stone for Danny Fisher.’

The concept of persons rising up against odds, in the streets is anathema to the mindless Progressives, with an agenda by now realized (by rational persons) as completely vile.

56 posted on 11/22/2018 7:32:48 PM PST by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
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To: Ransomed
That sounds about right, for Farmer. Back when I used to read scifi (so long ago, I recall shopping for one of his in a tidy little bookstore in the Ledyard Building, downtown Grand Rapids, been gone so long, I think the area was still French speaking at the time). I think I wound up getting one of the World of Tiers novels, or maybe there is only one? And in the mid-1980s I read "Venus on the Half-Shell", which he wrote under the ps-nym Kilgore Trout.

57 posted on 11/22/2018 9:57:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: ArtDodger
Since they are alwayhs at a loss for good ideas, someone should film "Taming of the Shrew" with the original script (shortened for time, of course) but staged in the world of Tarzan, right down to the vines and wardrobe. Every #metoo hypocrite would be rendering services just to snag the lead role.

58 posted on 11/22/2018 9:59:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: MrEdd

Y’know, I was just now greatly surprised, because I recall seeing the preview for the John Carter of Mars movie while waiting for another movie to start, and I see here that the movie was made *six* years ago. Guess I need to see movies more often. Or Hollywood needs to make better movies.

John Carter (2012)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/john_carter/

New ‘John Carter’ Movie Planned as Rights Revert to Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.
By Marc Graser
October 21, 2014 2:53PM PT
https://variety.com/2014/film/news/new-john-carter-movie-planned-as-rights-revert-to-edgar-rice-burroughs-inc-1201335891/

JOHN CARTER Rights Revert Back to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.; New Films Planned
by Adam Chitwood
October 21, 2014
http://collider.com/john-carter-reboot-disney/


59 posted on 11/22/2018 10:14:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Edgar Rice Burroughs used to own a big chunk of my hometown. Um, Tarzana, CA.


60 posted on 11/22/2018 10:18:19 PM PST by Yaelle
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