The Tarzan Collection Starring Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan the Ape Man / Escapes / and His Mate / Finds a Son / Secret Treasure / New York Adventure)

1000 percent satisfied,couldn't be more!

This entire set is great, the first one being better. A powerful story of love,communication, corrupt white people & surviving the jungle in Africa. It also makes the white man look corrupt trying to take all the riches from the jungle. Johnny Weissmuller is easily the best Tarzan. Maureen O'Sullivan plays Jane perfectly...Tarzan the Ape Man introduces Tarzan & Jane, and how they wound up together. Love at first sight. A great great movie,with a surprising amount of somewhat graphic violence. Now these are in black and white, but the shooting of animals and the flesh penetration was heavy duty for its time.Tarzan Escapes is the 3rd film in the series with her family plotting to bring Jane home, but it is trick to capture Tarzan and get Jane back to 'civilization'. I cant blame her for staying in the jungle.Tarzan & his Mate - yes this has nude scenes with Jane swimming - I was shocked when I saw this - still another great film with more corrupt whites wanting to make money in Tarzan's land and he has to save the bad guys from an evil tribeTarzan Finds a Son - "Boy" is his name and this was another fun story basically the same formula - bad white guys who wind up being saved by TarzanSecret Treasure has more greedy white guys using boy to round up all the gold that is in Tarzan's land that boy found. Pretty much the same story of the bad white guys who get captured by an evil tribe and Tarzan has to save everyone. Tom Conway plays a great villain in this.Tarzan's New York Adventure rounds out this set,more greedy white guys kidnap Boy who will be a circus act with the animals. Tarzan in a suit no less goes to the circus and climbs buildings to find boy. Tarzan goes to court over Boy. It was different. I do like it because it got away from the Jungle, it was like a curve ball from someone who threw fastballs,a change of pace..I think overall these are fantastic films(especially the first ones). The DVD's are completely uncut & the movies are fun to watch. Watching the animals as always entertaining. Tarzan fights an alligator scene pops up in 3 movies. Same footage, still fun. If you like jungle films, you cant miss Tarzan and this whole series..highly recommended

Oh, thank you MGM! I have waited years for the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies to come to DVD.Quite simply, they were the best of them all, even better than the RKO ones he did afterward. These were lavish and big movies, a delightful fantasy. I just hope they fix up the quality of the first movie, Tarzan of the Apes. I have them all on video, and the quality was fine, but the first movie needs a clean-up.After I see the DVD I'll come back to edit this review.Now let's get something straight here, boys and girls. This is Hollywood's version of Tarzan, though I think Johnny is the closest in physique and ferocity to the real Tarzan of the books.By virtue of his lifestyle Tarzan should be built like a gymnist/swimmer, long, lean, well defined muscles and not blown-up like a weightlifter. He played it with great dignity also, and did most of his acting with his eyes. Tarzan spoke more than a dozen languages, lived on an estate in British east Africa, flew planes and even had a girlfriend on the side, one La of opar. His real son was named John Clayton also, but in jungle parlance he was known as Korak the Killer, having been kidnapped as a child and grown up in the wild as did his father. His best animal friend was not a chimp named Cheetah, but a golden lion named Jad-bal-ja. Jane was blond and American, not brunette and British. ..But what difference does it make? These movies are wonderful fun. I wax nostalgic when I recall as a young boy in the fifties watching these movies on Sundays at 1pm on the CBS Movie for a Sunday Afternoon. And yes, all the stores were closed and life was for the better. People were visiting relatives and not running to shopping malls to sped money and abdicate parental responsibilites.After all, Tarzan searched for his son for ten years!Well, I now have the set and have watched the movies. I'm disappointed. They did nothing to clean up the movies. They're the exact quality of what's showing on TCM on a regular basis. Why bother to do it if they don't improve on it?

Complete and in very good condition as described. The pictures were helpful in deciding to order.

These are a great set of classic Tarzan films from the 1930's. Lots of humor. Highly recommend them!

The first 5 films, in this alternate universe, portray Tarzan living in an exotic paradise, high on a plateau in the unexplored interior of equatorial Africa. Tarzan wishes to be left alone, unfortunately, there are those who have heard of the fabulous wealth to be had in Tarzan's realm. All they have to do is trek across miles and miles of jungle teeming with sharp-toothed beasts and hostile tribes and then climb a treacherous 1,500 foot cliff called the Mutier Escarpment. Once on top, they'll find Tarzan's territory is just as dangerous . . . .The last film is a departure from the rest. Some men have taken Boy to New York to exploit his skill handling animals. Tarzan and Jane fly to the city to retrieve him. You might expect this to be a "fish out of water" story, but Tarzan easily adapts to this unfamiliar concrete jungle . . . .This set of Tarzan films was produced by MGM and Jane's character was perfectly played by Maureen O'Sullivan. (In "The Tarzan Collection, Volume 2", Jane was played by Brenda Joyce and produced by RKO Radio Pictures.)Best way to view: recommend watching them in the order they were made - note the second film is on disc 2, not disc 1.Special Features disc: no standouts, but interesting.DVD - 2004. Sharpness, Contrast, & Brightness varies from fair to good. Defects: grainy. In "Tarzan the Ape Man" many shots have a darkening in the corners. Sound: volume moderately low. Languages Exception: "Tarzan and HIs Mate" is English only. The Special Features disc has no language/subtitle options. Discs are single-sided.