Tarzan's Desert Mystery

Tarzan's Desert Mystery is a 1943 American Tarzan film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Johnny Weissmuller and Nancy Kelly.

Tarzan's Desert Mystery
Directed byWilhelm Thiele
Produced bySol Lesser
Written byCarroll Young (story)
Edward T. Lowe Jr.
Based onCharacters created
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
StarringJohnny Weissmuller
Nancy Kelly
Music byPaul Sawtell
CinematographyHarry J. Wild
Russell Harlan
Edited byRay H. Lockert
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • December 26, 1943 (1943-12-26)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Like its immediate predecessor, Tarzan Triumphs, the film mentions Tarzan's mate, Jane, but does not show her on screen. The explanation for her absence, as in the earlier film, is that she is in England helping the war effort. (Maureen O'Sullivan had played Jane in the first six of Weissmuller's Tarzan films, but when the character of Jane returned after a two-picture absence, she was played by Brenda Joyce, not O'Sullivan.)

The film revolves around Tarzan's quest, at the urging of Jane, to find a rare plant-derived serum to help Allied troops during World War II. Tarzan's son, Boy, manages to tag along as the ape man journeys into the Sahara, and the two are soon joined by a rambunctious horse and a female American magician, played by Nancy Kelly. As they seek the area of North Africa where the plant grows, they run into trouble with Nazi spies who are trying to take over a small Arab kingdom.

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