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Directed by | John Guillermin |
Written by | Robert Hardy Andrews John Guillermin |
Based on | Characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
Produced by | Sy Weintraub |
Starring | Jock Mahoney Levi Aharon Aharoni Leo Gordon Feroz Khan |
Cinematography | Paul Beeson |
Edited by | Max Benedict |
Music by | Ken Jones |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
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Language | English |
Box office | $1.1 million (US/Canada)[1] |
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.