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The Revenge of Tarzan
The Revenge of Tarzan
	Movie poster
Directed by	Harry Revier; George M. Merrick
Written by	Robert Saxmar
Based on	The Return of Tarzan; by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Produced by	Samuel Goldwyn; Edgar Rice Burroughs
Starring	Gene Pollar; Karla Schramm; Estelle Taylor; Armand Cortes; Franklin B. Coates
Production; company	Numa Pictures Corporation
Distributed by	Goldwyn Pictures
Release date	May 30, 1920;
Running time	90 minutes
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Revenge of Tarzan (1920) is a silent adventure film, originally advertised as The Return of Tarzan, and the third Tarzan film produced. The film was produced by the Great Western Film Producing Company, a subsidiary of the Numa Pictures Corporation. The film was sold to Goldwyn Pictures for distribution.

The film was written by Robert Saxmar, based on the 1915 novel The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and directed by Harry Revier and George M. Merrick. It was released on May 30, 1920.

Plot

Tarzan and Jane are traveling to Paris to help his old friend Countess de Coude, who is being threatened by her brother, Nikolas Rokoff. Rokoff has Tarzan tossed overboard. He survives, comes ashore in North Africa, and goes to Paris to search for Jane.

In Paris, Tarzan reunites with his old friend Paul D'Arnot, who informs him that Jane was taken to Africa.

Tarzan returns just in time to save Jane from a lion attack, and soon defeats Rokoff and his henchmen.

Cast

Gene Pollar as Tarzan
Karla Schramm as Jane
Estelle Taylor as Countess de Coude, Tarzan's ally
Armand Cortes as Nikolas Rokoff, a villain
Franklin B. Coates as Paul D'Arnot, Tarzan's old friend
George Romain as Count de Coude
Walter Miller as Henchman to Rokoff
Louis Stern as Polawitch
Betty Turner as Marie

Production notes

The production filmed on location in New York, Florida, and Balboa, California.

Karla Schramm returned to portray Jane in The Son of Tarzan (opposite P. Dempsey Tabler as Tarzan), also released in 1920. She and Brenda Joyce are the only two actresses who have portrayed Jane opposite two different Tarzans.

Gene Pollar, a former firefighter, made no other films, and returned to his old job after the film was completed.

Outside the United States, the film is known by its working title, The Return of Tarzan. The title was changed for its American release in July 1920.^[1] A previously known print was destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. While usually reported as a lost film, a complete print exists under the title The Return of Tarzan in the BFI/National Film And Television Archive in London, England.^[2] Preservation status of the print is unknown.

References

^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Return of Tarzan at silentera.com
^ "Return of Tarzan, The". American Silent Feature Film Database. Library of Congress. September 14, 2016. Retrieved September 20, 2016.