Tarzan Goes to India

Tarzan Goes to India
Directed byJohn Guillermin
Written byRobert Hardy Andrews
John Guillermin
Based onCharacters created
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Produced bySy Weintraub
StarringJock Mahoney
Levi Aharon Aharoni
Leo Gordon
Feroz Khan
CinematographyPaul Beeson
Edited byMax Benedict
Music byKen Jones
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
  • 11 July 1962 (1962-07-11) (United States)
  • 16 December 1962 (1962-12-16) (United Kingdom)
Running time
88 minutes
Countries
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • Switzerland
LanguageEnglish
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.

  1. ^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1962". Variety. 9 Jan 1963. p. 13. Please note these are rentals and not gross figures
  2. ^ Fury, David (1994). Kings of the Jungle: An Illustrated Reference to Tarzan on Screen and Television. McFarland & Co. pp. 183–187. ISBN 0-89950-771-9. Retrieved 16 January 2024.