It was also released as a 1 ½ hour feature film which comprised the first four chapters of the serial version and the final chapter. Tarzan the Fearless (1933) is a 12 chapter film serial starring Buster Crabbe in his only appearance as Tarzan. The guides are also after the Treasure of Zar in the Lost City. One of the guides is carrying a telegram offering a reward for Tarzan, dead or alive.
After seeing a picture of Brooks daughter Mary (Julie Bishop) Tarzan is captivated and sets out to find her. Brooks is captured by followers of Zar, God of the Jeweled Fingers and Tarzan (Buster Crabbe) sets out to save him. Tarzan the Fearless (1933) - Buster Crabbe - Based on the 1st 4 chapters of the 12 Chapter Movie Serial (Tarzan the Fearless) and the final chapterĭr. Other characters he portrayed included Western hero Billy the Kid, Buck Rogers.Ĭrabbe is the only actor who played Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers - the top three pulp fiction heroes of the 1930s.ġ. His next major role was in 1936 as Flash Gordon in the popular Flash Gordon serials, which he reprised in two sequels, released by Universal in 19).
(The serial was re-edited into a made-for-TV feature in 1964.) In the 1933's King of the Jungle, 1941's Jungle Man, and the 1952 serial King of the Congo he played generic "jungle man" roles in the Tarzan mode. It would be the only movie in which Crabbe starred as Tarzan. Buster Crabbe (1908 –1983) was an American athlete turned actor, who starred in a number of popular serials and movies in the 1930s and 1940s.Ĭrabbe's role in the 1933 Tarzan serial Tarzan the Fearless (also issued as a full length movie) launched a successful career in which he starred in over one hundred movies.
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