Tarzan Goes to India
Tarzan Goes to India (1962) is the first film featuring Jock Mahoney as Tarzan. The twenty-fourth film of the Tarzan film series that began with 1932's Tarzan the Ape Man, it was written by Robert Hardy Andrews and directed by John Guillermin, who also directed Tarzan's Greatest Adventure. The film also stars Indian Bollywood actors Feroz Khan, Simi Garewal and Murad in pivotal roles.[2] It was followed by Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963) which was set in Thailand. It was one of two Mahoney films that took Tarzan out of Africa and sent him to the Far East. It was a co-production between Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Jock Mahoney had appeared as the villain in the previous Tarzan film, Tarzan the Magnificent.
Tarzan Goes to India
Robert Hardy Andrews
John Guillermin
Characters created
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Jock Mahoney
Levi Aharon Aharoni
Leo Gordon
Feroz Khan
- 11 July 1962 (United States)
- 16 December 1962 (United Kingdom)
88 minutes
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Switzerland
English
$1.1 million (US/Canada)[1]
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
In August 1962, Hedda Hopper reported the film was "cleaning up" at the box office.[8] Mahoney said ""Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had just released Mutiny on the Bounty, that three-hour remake. And then came Tarzan Goes to India. Well, oP Tarzan saved Metro's bacon. Mutiny wasn't doing very good at all. They really needed to make the bucks. The picture had all the elements going for it. They even billed me as 'The World's Greatest Stuntman' but in my opinion, Dave Sharpe was the world's greatest."[7]
According to MGM records, however, the film recorded a loss of $178,000 for the studio.[9]
Home media[edit]
Warner Bros. released the film on Blu-ray on January 29, 2019 as part of their Archive Collection line.[11]