And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, February 5, 2026
Tarzan apparently knows how to work the machine gun
One of many sequels to the original "Tarzan of the Apes". Most are very good but toward the end some were "licensed" by the Burroughs estate after the authors death and were generally dreadful.
I read some of the Tarzan novels back in the day. He was a cultured English gentleman running around Africa getting involved with strange civilizations, something similar to Rider Haggard novels. None of this Johnny Weissmuller stuff.
P.S. 'Course I was in the East Point Theater whenever one of those Weissmuller Tarzan movies came out. Never appreciated the later one. My dad insisted that Buster Crabbe was the best.
There were 42 Tarzan paperback published in one series back in the 1970's. I owned and read every one. Some of them were quite good. Some were not. I wish the estate would reprint them.
Me Tarzan, you dead.
ReplyDeleteOne of many sequels to the original "Tarzan of the Apes". Most are very good but toward the end some were "licensed" by the Burroughs estate after the authors death and were generally dreadful.
ReplyDeleteI read some of the Tarzan novels back in the day. He was a cultured English gentleman running around Africa getting involved with strange civilizations, something similar to Rider Haggard novels. None of this Johnny Weissmuller stuff.
ReplyDeleteP.S. 'Course I was in the East Point Theater whenever one of those Weissmuller Tarzan movies came out. Never appreciated the later one. My dad insisted that Buster Crabbe was the best.
DeleteYou might also like some of the R.E.H. Solomon Kane stories (but skip that horrible movie).
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Gordon Scott made an excellent Tarzan, I believe that one actor who played the villain was Sean Connery, pre-Bond.
ReplyDeleteScott played Tarzan six times.
"Come on out, f#@ker. Ol' Painless is waiting."
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Did Tarzan ever shoot a Maxim in the books?
ReplyDeleteNo. Tarzan shot a Maxim in the jungle.
DeleteWhatever else happens we have got the Maxim gun and they have not.
ReplyDeleteDo I see a German helmet and a German hand grenade on the ground?
ReplyDeleteKnows how to shave, too.
ReplyDeleteHeard he went awol…couldn’t take not being in his element.
ReplyDeleteThere were 42 Tarzan paperback published in one series back in the 1970's. I owned and read every one. Some of them were quite good. Some were not.
ReplyDeleteI wish the estate would reprint them.