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{{Short description|1949 film by Lee Sholem}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Tarzan's Magic Fountain
| image = Poster - Tarzan's Magic Fountain 01.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Film poster
| director = [[Lee Sholem]]
| producer = [[Sol Lesser]]
| writer = [[Curt Siodmak]]<br>Henry[[Harry Chandlee]]
| based onbased_on = {{based on|Characters created|[[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]}}
| narrator =
| starring = [[Lex Barker]]<br>[[Brenda Joyce (actress)|Brenda Joyce]]<br>[[Albert Dekker]]<br>[[Evelyn Ankers]]
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| studio = Sol Lesser Productions
| distributor = [[RKO Radio Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date|1949|2|5|U.S.|ref1=<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=26139| title=Tarzan's Magic Fountain: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdateaccess-date= May 13, 2014}}</ref>}}
| runtime = 73 minutes
| country = United States
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'''''Tarzan's Magic Fountain''''' is a 1949 [[Tarzan]] film directed by [[Lee Sholem]] and starring [[Lex Barker]] as Tarzan and [[Brenda Joyce (actress)|Brenda Joyce]] as his companion [[Jane Porter (Tarzan)|Jane]]. The thirteenth film of the ''Tarzan'' film series that began with 1932's ''[[Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film)|Tarzan the Ape Man]]'', the film also features [[Albert Dekker]] and [[Evelyn Ankers]],. It was co-written by [[Curt Siodmak]], and directed by [[Lee Sholem]].
 
This was Barker's first appearance as [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' ape-man, while Joyce had played Jane opposite [[Johnny WeismullerWeissmuller]] as Tarzan in four previous films. She was one of only two actresses to portray Jane in movies with two different actors as Tarzan. (The other was [[Karla Schramm]] in the silent era.) ''Tarzan's Magic Fountain'' was Joyce's final turn in the role, and different actresses played Jane in each of Barker's four subsequent Tarzan movies: ([[Vanessa Brown]], [[Virginia Huston]], [[Dorothy Hart]], and [[Joyce MacKenzie]]). [[Elmo Lincoln]], who had been the first screen Tarzan three decades earlier, appears uncredited as a fisherman repairing his nets. The film was followed by ''[[Tarzan and the Slave Girl]]'' in 1950.
 
==SynopsisPlot==
[[Aviator]] Gloria James Jessup went missing twenty years ago. Tarzan and Jane hear news of a man back in the United States who is about to be sentenced to life imprisonment; the only way he can be cleared is for Jessup's testimony. Tarzan secretly leaves for the hidden valley where Jessup has secretly been living for almost two decades and brings her back to testify.
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.
 
Jessup looks decades younger than her actual age and this prompts a pair of men to ponder the rumor of a magic [[Fountain of Youth]] and try to find it after she returns from testifying and heads back there.
 
==Cast==
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* [[Albert Dekker]] as Mr. Trask
* [[Evelyn Ankers]] as Gloria James Jessup
* [[Charles Drake (actor)|Charles Drake]] as Mr. Dodd
* [[Alan Napier]] as Douglas Jessup
* [[Ted Hecht]] as Pasco
* [[Henry Brandon (actor)|Henry Brandon]] as Siko
* [[Elmo Lincoln]] as a Fisherman
* [[Henry Kulky]] a Vredak
* [[Rory Mallinson]] as Vredak's Companion
* [[Rick Vallin]] as the Flaming Arrow Shooter
 
==Critical reception==
''[[The New York Times]]'' welcomed Lex Barker's new Tarzan as "A younger, more streamlined apeman with a personable grin and a torso guaranteed to make any lion cringe, he seems to be just what the witch-doctor ordered for this tattered series. The picture, though, is a matter of stale peanuts at the same old jungle stand. Instead of resorting to new ideas and treatment and a timely overhauling job, the studio has dragged out a mouldy script, the same sheepish-looking extras, and the wheezing chimpanzee, Cheetah, who isn't getting any younger, either."<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=940CE0DB173FE03ABC4F53DFB4668382659EDE|title=MOVIE REVIEW Familiar Series With New Tarzan - NYTimes.com|work=The New York Times |date=26 March 2024 }}</ref>
 
== References ==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0041947}}
* {{allMovie title|1072254}}
* {{TCMDb title|id=92398}}
* {{AFI film|26139}}
 
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