TARZAN IN ISTANBUL 1952 (SINISTER CINEMA)

A Tarzan film from Turkey.

This is a VERY rare film and is basically a remake of the 1932 MGM film "Tarzan The Ape Man" which starred Johnny Weissmuller.

In this epic Tamer Balci stars as Tarzan. A group of adventurers who have discovered a long missing explorers skeleton and a letter he was intending to mail to his brother. They decide to deliver it in person to him in Istanbul.

This leads to a new expedition looking for a missing treasure. The safari starts out fine, but is soon met with many dangers including herds of lions, tons of crocodiles and a tribe of very angry natives.

Tarzan helps them on the safari after meeting and taking a liking to the young woman of the group. After all is said and done only two members of the party survive as well as Tarzan. And he accompanies them to Istanbul in the final minute of the film.

This isn't too bad of a film, but it was made in 1952 and looks like it should be in the 1930's. I can only assume the film stock was not too good, and the movie does depend on tons of stock footage from other films.

I was really hard pressed to find anything on this film but I can tell you I liked it and found it no worse than many other films I have seen, and better than some others. The movie is subtitled in English and since it is so obscure, I really think you should check it out.