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An airplane crashes in the jungle, stranding passengers Gamage Dean (Yolande Donlan), Diana Penrod (Betta St. John), “Doodles” Fletcher (Wilfrid Hyde-White), Carl Kraski (George Coulouris), and Dick Penrod (Peter Arne). Before the plane slides into a gorge the group is rescued by Tarzan (Gordon Scott), who undertakes to lead them back to civilization. Diana is kidnapped by warriors from Opar under chief Chief Ogonooro (Orlando Martins). The Oparians desire the strangers as sacrifices for their lion god. She is recovered by Tarzan and hunter Tusker Hawkins (Robert Beatty), whose advances Diana rebuffs. Secretely, however, Hawkins is in league with the Oparians, and plans to sell the castaways to the natives for a fortune in ivory. Tarzan, rightly suspecting Hawkins’ untrustworthiness, exposes his treachery. Now openly in league with the natives, the hunter helps them take the white party captive in Tarzan’s absence. The ape man returns to save them before the sacrifice can take place, aided by his chimpanzee ally Cheeta, who sets fire to the native village. He then leads them to the safety of a nearby settlement. Hawkins meets his fate at the hands of the Oparians, to whom Tarzan has signalled his double-dealing by a creative use of jungle drums.

The film contains more echoes of the original Burroughs novels than usual in a Tarzan movie, including the ape man’s allusions to his origin (which follows Burroughs’ version), and the use of Opar, though reducing the romantic lost city described by Burroughs to a generic native village. Tarzan, while retaining the customary film characterization of an inarticulate simpleton, displays considerable shrewdness and resource, foreshadowing the restoration of Burroughs’ original concept of an intelligent, omnicompetent ape man in later movies.

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Two men come into the jungle intent on wholesale slaughter of animals to get barrels of animal fat, lion skins and tusks. Tarzan tries to help a baby elephant, one of their first victims. He takes the elephant to an animal doctor and his female assistant who have pitched their tents in the jungle to do business. The hunters turn up and pretend they are photographers and have the doctor escort them to where the animals are. They leave the doctor and start killing animals. His assistant finds out they are evil and goes after them but needs Tarzan’s help when she stumbles into quicksand. He rescues her, and she says she needs a bath so Tarzan throws her into the river.

They reach a tribe who worship animals and who are Tarzan’s friends. However, the tribe hear that animals are being slaughtered and decide to kill the doctor and his assistant as he led them there. Tarzan goes after the villains and they end up getting their just deserts. He arrives back in time to save the doc and his assistant from the lions in the pit they have been thrown into.

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Poachers enslave the men of the Lykopo tribe in order to force them to capture bull elephants for their ivory. Lyra, the employer of the poachers tries to have Jane kidnapped but her men fail and burn down Tarzan and Jane’s tree house. Tarzan believes Jane died in the fire and becomes despondent. Lyra has her men capture Tarzan in an attempt to force him to help them herd the elephants. Jane was able to escape the fire and is captured while searching for Tarzan. Once Tarzan sees Jane is alive and well, he is relieved but now he must figure a way to save them both.

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After killing Tarzan’s real cousin, Rokov devises a plan to use the diary of Lord Greystoke, Tarzan’s father, to convince Tarzan that Edward, Rokov’s partner is Tarzan’s cousin. Rokov and Tarzan’s cousin, Edward, convince Tarzan that they need to find diamonds that are in Waziri country for national security. Once they get there, Rokov ambushes Tarzan and kills Edwards and the Waziri Witch Doctor and steels the diamonds. The Waziri tribe are very upset and plan to take revenge of the death of the Witch Doctor by sacrificing Jane. Joey, a boy Jane and Tarzan rescued and decided to adopt runs into the jungle in search of the wounded Tarzan in an attempt get Tarzan to save Jane but Joey must face his biggest fears in the jungle.

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Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba tribe has turned down the marriage proposal from Bulam, King of the Yorango tribe. He is very upset and plans to get vengeance on the peaceful Ashuba tribe by getting guns so he can attack the new Queen and her citizens. Radijeck, a prison escapee is quick to negotiate a deal with Bulam. Tarzan was responsible for putting Radijek in prison once. Bulam uses the guns to capture and imprison Melmendi. Somehow, Tarzan must protect Jane from Radijeck and rescue the Queen.

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While searching desperately for the kidnapped native girls, Tarzan discovers that the people of Lyolia are dying from a plague. He brings the doctor from Randini to help try to cure the sick people. The Loyolians decide to kidnap both Jane and the nurse, Lola, and use them to repopulate their city. In an attempt to escape, Jane and Lola end up trapped in a tomb that Sengo, the head kidnapper, has sealed. In the meantime the Prince of Lyolia has his high priest imprisoned because he has been unable to cure his son. Tarzan and the Doctor lose the medicine in the jungle. Tarzan finds out that Jane and Lola are in a sealed tomb and he must find them before their air is used up.

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Ankers portrays an aviatrix who walks out of the jungle looking decades younger than her chronological age due to a secret fountain of youth but gradually begins a terrifying accelerated aging process. Against Tarzan’s wishes, she and Jane begin a desperate search for the fountain.

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Varga (Fernando Wagner), a villainous white pearl thief posing as the god Balu has chooses a lovely young native girl, Mara (Linda Christian) to be his bride. She escapes the island of Aquatania and meets Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) and Jane (Brenda Joyce) who agree to help her and she gives Jane a rare black pearl. She is recaptured, however, and taken back to the island. Tarzan goes to her rescue. Tiko (Gustavo Rojo) to whom Mara is betrothed meets Jane. Benji (John Laurenz), the singing mailman takes Jane’s pearl to the region’s commissioner, who decides to visit the island, picking up Jane and Tiko along the way. They are captured and Varga’s henchman, Palanth (George Zucco), in his role as high priest, is about to sentence them to death when Tarzan, disguised as Balu, arrives to have them released. Tiko and Mara are about to be married when the real Balu appears and all the outsiders are ordered to be thrown to their deaths into the sea. Tarzan unmasks the false god and the two villains meet the fate they had tried to impose upon the others.

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Due to a shortage of animals in American zoos following World War II, Tanya Rawlins, a big-game “huntress,” Carl Marley, her financial backer and Paul Weir, a cruel trail boss, are given permission by King Farrod, to capture a male and female of each species of animal on his land.

In a subplot, Oziri, nephew to King Farrod, colludes with Weir to allow him to trap more animals than bargained for. He also has Weir’s men kill King Farrod and his son, Prince Suli, in order for him to take over the throne. Farrod is shot in the back and killed, and Suli is thrown into a pit full of crocodiles, but, unknown to all watching, he lands on a hidden ledge and is knocked unconscious.

Boy trades two lion cubs to the trappers for a flashlight. When Tarzan finds out, he returns the flashlight, retrieves the cubs, and calls all the animals from King Farrod’s land across the river to his part of the jungle. When the hunters begin trapping on his side of the river, Tarzan and Boy sneak into their camp at night, take their guns and hide them in a cave behind a waterfall. They then begin to systematically release all the trapped animals from their cages.

Cheeta inadvertently reveals the location of the cache of weapons to Rawlins and her safari.

Prince Suli is able to make his way through the jungle, and is found by Tarzan. Tarzan, Boy and a herd of elephants defeat both the usurping nephew and the huntress, but the latter escapes onboard a plane.

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Travellers near Zambezi are being killed, apparently by leopards. The commissioner (Dennis Hoey) asks Tarzan to look into the matter. Tarzan immediately doubts that leopards are the problem. At the same time, Tarzan, Jane, and Boy take in Kimba, a boy who claims to have become lost in the jungle. Kimba (Tommy Cook) is the brother of Queen Lea, leader of a leopard cult. She has dispatched him to spy on Tarzan. Queen Lea also conspires with Ameer Lazar (Edgar Barrier), a Western-educated doctor who resents the West’s domination of the area.

Kimba has a goal of his own: to take the heart of Jane (Brenda Joyce) a deed that would make him a warrior in the eyes of the cult. The Leopard Men wear leopard skins that form a cowl and cape, with iron claws attached to the back of each hand. Queen Lea (Acquanetta) wears a headband, wrist bands, ankle bands, halter top and miniskirt made of leopard skin. As “Variety” put it: “She displays plenty of what it takes to stir male interest and handles her acting chores adequately.” She works her followers into a frenzy in an underground chamber, “These skins are your disguise. These claws are your weapons. Go not as men, but as leopards. Go swiftly, silently.”

They attack a caravan bringing four teachers (Iris Flores, Lillian Molieri (Miss Central America of 1945), Helen Gerald and Kay Solinas) and bring the maidens back for sacrifice. They also capture Tarzan, Jane, and Boy. Tarzan brings down the roof of the cavern, destroying the cult and rescuing his friends.