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Tarzan's Fight for Life
Tarzan's Fight for Life movie poster
Directed by	H. Bruce Humberstone
Produced by	Sol Lesser
Written by	Thomas Hal Phillips Edgar Rice Burroughs (characters)
Starring	Gordon Scott Eve Brent Rickie Sorensen Jil Jarmyn Cheeta
Music by	Ernest Gold
Cinematography	William E. Snyder
Editing by	Aaron Stell
Distributed by	MGM
Release date(s)	July, 1958
Running time	86 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Tarzan and the Trappers
Followed by	Tarzan's Greatest Adventure

Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958) is an action adventure film featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan and starring Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorensen, Jil Jarmyn, and Cheeta the chimpanzee. The movie was directed by H. Bruce Humberstone. It was the second Tarzan movie released in color, and the last to portray the ape man speaking broken English until Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981). Shortly after completing this film, Scott, Brent, and Sorensen would play the same roles in an attempt to launch a "Tarzan" television series. However, the extremely low-budget project failed to sell, and the three half-hour episodes were spliced into an ersatz feature, Tarzan and the Trappers, released to television in 1966.

Plot

Jungle medics Dr. Sturdy (Carl Benton Reid) and his daughter Anne (Jil Jarmyn) are opposed by witch doctor Futa (James Edwards) of the Nagasu tribe, who regards their work as a threat to his own livelihood. Futa incites the tribe to waylay Anne's fiance Dr. Ken Warwick (Harry Lauter), who is saved by Tarzan (Gordon Scott). Later Tarzan and his adopted son Tartu (Rickie Sorensen) enlist the doctors' services on behalf of Jane (Eve Brent), suffering from appendicitis. Futa hypnotises Moto (Nick Stewart), a native assistant of Sturdy, to murder Jane, but Tarzan thwarts the plot. Learning that the young Nagasu chief (Roy Glenn) is sick, Tarzan attempts to persuade them to let Sturdy treat them. Seizing his chance, Futa has the ape man taken captive and condemned to death. To restore his own credentials, the witch doctor then undertakes to cure the chief himself, hedging his bets by having his henchman Ramo (Woody Strode) steal medicine from Sturdy. Unfortunately, Ramo purloins a poison by mistake. Freeing himself, Tarzan intervenes and prevents the administration of the poison to the chief; Futa then swallows it himself to demonstrate that there is no harm in it—and of course dies. Dr. Sturdy is consequently called in, successfully curing the chief.

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Silent films (8)	Tarzan of the Apes (1918) • The Romance of Tarzan (1918) • The Revenge of Tarzan (1920) • The Son of Tarzan (1920) • The Adventures of Tarzan (1921) • Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927) • Tarzan the Mighty (1928) • Tarzan the Tiger (1929)

With Johnny Weissmuller (12)	Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) • Tarzan and His Mate (1934) • Tarzan Escapes (1936) • Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939) • Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) • Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942) • Tarzan Triumphs (1943) • Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943) • Tarzan and the Amazons (1945) • Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946) • Tarzan and the Huntress (1947) • Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)

With Lex Barker (5)	Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949) • Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950) • Tarzan's Peril (1951) • Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952) • Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953)

With Gordon Scott (6)	Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955) • Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957) • Tarzan and the Trappers (1958) • Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958) • Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959) • Tarzan the Magnificent (1960)

Competing films	Tarzan the Fearless (1933) • The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935) • Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938) • Tarzan’s Revenge (1938) • Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959)

Later RKO series films and independent films	Tarzan Goes to India (1962) • Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963) • Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966) • Tarzan and the Great River (1967) • Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968) • Tarzan's Deadly Silence (1970)

Later films	Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981) • Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) • Tarzan and the Lost City (1998) • Tarzan of the Apes (1999) • Tarzan (1999) • Tarzan & Jane (2002) • Tarzan II (2005)

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