Tarzan and the Golden Lion (film)

Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Tarzan and the Golden Lion
	Poster
Directed by	J. P. McGowan
Written by	William E. Wing
Based on	Tarzan and the Golden Lion; by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Produced by	Edwin C. King
Starring	James Pierce; Dorothy Dunbar; Edna Murphy
Cinematography	Joseph Walker
Production; company	Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation
Distributed by	Film Booking Offices of America
Release date	March 20, 1927;
Running time	57 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927)

Tarzan and the Golden Lion is a 1927 American Tarzan film directed by J. P. McGowan based on the 1923 novel of the same name written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The film stars James Pierce as Tarzan, Frederick Peters as Esteban Miranda, Dorothy Dunbar as Jane, and Edna Murphy as Betty Greystoke. It also stars Boris Karloff (in blackface) as Owaza, a tribesman.^[1] The film was distributed by the Film Booking Offices of America.

Cast

James Pierce as Tarzan
Frederick Peters as Esteban Miranda, villain
Edna Murphy as Betty Greystoke, Tarzan's sister
Harold Goodwin as Jack Bradley
Dorothy Dunbar as Jane Porter Clayton, Lady Greystoke, Tarzan's wife
D'Arcy Corrigan as Weesimbo
Boris Karloff as Owaza
Robert Bolder as John Peebles

Production

Tarzan and the Golden Lion was Pierce's only on-screen appearance as Tarzan.^[2] The next year, he married the daughter of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the two went on to perform the voices of Tarzan and Jane in a Tarzan radio series from 1932 to 1936.

Preservation status

Considered a lost film for many decades - with Pierce trying in vain to locate a copy before his death - a complete print of the film was discovered in the 1990s.^[3]