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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

I'll tell you why so serious

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

While watching Tarzan Finds A Son today it occurred to me that both this film and Tarzan's New York Adventure were about the same thing, custodial interference. The only difference is in the setting where the question is raised. In this film the issue is decided on Tarzan's home turf in the jungle. And as such he's got a definite home field advantage.The film begins with Morton Lowry, Laraine Day and pilot Gavin Muir going down in a light plane crash in the jungle. The chimpanzees find their infant son who survived and bring him to Tarzan where Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan raise the boy and name him such.Five years later guide Henry Wilcoxon lead the Lancings, Henry Stephenson, Ian Hunter, and Frieda Inescourt into the jungle looking for a trace of their relatives. That leads O'Sullivan into a conflict with Weissmuller.Much as she loves life with the Lord of the Jungle, O'Sullivan does see certain advantages to civilization that their 'son' now played by young Johnny Sheffield might have. Of course all the relatives motives aren't pure which leads to the inevitable conflict.In the jungle Tarzan who's on a first name basis with every animal can call on both apes and elephants for assistance. That he does in a nice slam bang climax where both simian and pachyderm power are brought to bear.Louis B. Mayer must have always thanked God that the shooting of Trader Horn in Africa left him with so much background jungle footage to use and not too many times over. The footage is well integrated into this story.Tarzan Finds A Son has aged well and remains watchable.

A plane carrying a wealthy couple and their baby crashlands in the African jungle; everyone except the baby dies. Monkeys take the child up in a tree; Tarzan and Jane will raise it as their own. Greedy relatives of the dead father come looking for survivors as to determine if they will receive the deceased's fortune (if there are no survivors, they get the fortune). Realizing that they could use the boy to line their pockets by claiming him as legal guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Lancing (Ian Hunter and Frieda Inescort) concoct a scheme with cousin Sande (Henry Wilcoxon) finding opposition with their uncle, Sir Thomas Lancing (a delightful Henry Stephenson). Thomas is held captive by his relatives as to keep his mouth shut, as the other Lancings work on the emotions of Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan; who was to leave the Tarzan series after this film) who does contemplate the safety (she thinks because Jane does not know that the Lancings are such monsters) of Boy (Johnny Sheffield), five years old and always evading crocodiles, rhinos, and lions (Boy even gets caught in a spider web with giant spiders crawling towards him). Will the Lancings force Jane to let go of her *son* and lead them down the path to home? After three amazing Tarzan movies, I knew that the momentum would eventually have to subside, if even a little. This movie repeated similar scenes from the previous films, which, to be honest, at this juncture was starting to tire me. The natives of "Tarzan and His Mate", the hunters that kill and eat lions, are given a name, the Zambeles, and they are the tribe that pose a threat to Jane and other whites who find themselves in the wrong neck of the woods. Yep, that elephant stampede, with Tarzan as the leader, is used as a rescue device yet again, this time losing a bit of its luster because there was this feeling of "been there, done that", although it was neat seeing Boy riding a small elephant, accompanying the rampaging herd. Boy gets to head after Tarzan instead of Cheetah, the orangutan, which was a change of pace and rather heroic considering the danger that awaits him such as a lion chasing after him up a tree. The more suspenseful scenes come from Boy getting himself into perilous situations like walking into the aforementioned spider web, nearly riding a large lily pad into a waterfall, and almost suffering the crush of a rumbling rhino. These scenes are important to establish the terror that is omnipresent regarding life in the jungle, and we know they play a major factor in Jane's decision to possibly hand the kid over to the Lancings. Like in previous Tarzan films, a secondary character, who develops a plan to ruin the greedy white villains' goal of securing wealth through nefarious means, is shot for attempting such heroism, and not long after this, those involved in such a crime run smack dab into a heathen tribe, their lives potentially suffering a karmic backlash. This film includes a nifty rescue for Tarzan who is left by Jane in a giant hole containing a small river, with Boy and Cheetah leading elephants to push over a tree that would help our hero climb out so he could, in turn, save Jane and company from the Zambele tribe. I do think the scene where Jane is speared seems "off", as if her intended fate seemed more realistic than what was eventually filmed when Tarzan reaches her, but I understand the logic of the studio in changing the result. I do want to see Maureen O'Sullivan again, even if this particular film doesn't quite give her as meatier a role as in past Tarzan films.

When a young couple (MORTON LOWRY and LARAINE DAY) are killed in a plane crash over the jungle, only their infant son survives. Cheetah rescues the baby from the plane and brings it to the jungle hideout of Tarzan and Jane (JOHNNY WEISSMULLER and MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN). Sullivan decides the boy's name will be simply "Boy" because that's what Tarzan wants.So begins this formulaic fourth in the series from MGM, given a bigger budget than usual but still lacking Technicolor for all of the great location photography and underwater scenes. It's good looking in B&W thanks to the glossy MGM photography and Richard Thorpe manages to keep things moving busily enough despite his reputation for being a slow paced director.A search party looking for the boy is headed by HENRY STEPHENSON, HENRY WILCOXON, IAN HUNTER and FRIEDA INESCORT, their mission being to find the boy and profit from his having inherited quite a bit of wealth. It's up to Tarzan and Jane to decide whether to hand over the boy or not. Things get a bit complicated from that point on, but the predictable happy ending is never too far out of sight--even though it was changed to have Maureen O'Sullivan survive her wounds when the original ending met with a platoon of negative protests. And incidentally, she looks lovelier than ever.It's a well-produced jungle film with all the familiar ingredients tacked together neatly enough to please Tarzan's fans. The water sport playfulness between father and son is nicely filmed in a series of underwater segments.Only drawback: Boy's laughter seems artificial and forced every time he thinks a situation is hilariously funny.

Fourth film in the MGM Tarzan sequence is a great step up from the last film, Tarzan Escapes (what a dog that one is).Here the film has Tarzan and Jane having a baby boy brought to them by Cheetah. The baby, who they name Boy, was orphaned when the plane he was flying with his parents crashed in the jungle. The crying baby was rescued by some chimps not long before the plane is discovered by unfriendly tribesmen. (we later learn the parents fates). Five years later an expedition comes into the jungle looking for the plane and some sign of the people on board. It seems a vast fortune hangs in the balance of the location of anyone on board the plane. Will Boy return to civilization or stay with Tarzan and Jane? Good film is a nice step forward in the MGM Tarzan saga.The plot moves along at a good clip, has some great thrills and keeps the stock footage to a minimum. To be honest I can't really say that any bit of the story really stands out but at the same time I enjoyed the film the entire time it was on.If there are any draw backs to the film it would come in two places, first the basic structure of some one coming into the jungle to find some one, Boy here, Jane in the previous two films, was cliché almost from the get go. the fact that the studio got three films in a row from the plot line shows the films have more to them then the well worn plot lines. The second problem with the film is the long sequences where Tarzan and Boy frolic. Its good in that it establish father/son bonding and their relationship, but it kind of goes on and one too long. Worse its all variations on the Tarzan Jane frolics from the last two films.Ultimately the pluses out weigh the minuses so this is a great little adventure film. Definitely worth your time.(Addendum and possible spoiler: I can't believe that MGM was going to kill off Jane. I'm curious has to how the final sequence was suppose to be played since the scene as it stands now is a bit silly with Jane suddenly better.)