[2] A plane flying to Cape Town, carrying a young couple and their baby, crashes in the jungle.

She persuades Tarzan to retrieve the cache of guns, without which the search party can't survive.

The white people are held in a separate hut while the tribe begins to kill and preserve the native bearers.

The producers believed that audiences were unwilling to accept Glenn Morris in the role made famous by Johnny Weissmuller.

MGM realized that Weissmuller had continuing attraction as Tarzan and bought out Lesser's interest in the next three films; they restarted their series.

This was intended as Maureen O'Sullivan's last appearance as Jane in the series, with her character to die as a result of a spear wound.

Johnny Sheffield, who played Boy, claims that Weissmuller handpicked him for the part and taught him to swim.

was supposed to mark O'Sullivan's departure from the series, with Jane sustaining a lethal spear wound in the climactic sequence.

The beautiful actress was prepped to put her career on hiatus for family; she was pregnant with her first child by director John Farrow during production [but] It didn't take many test screenings for MGM to feel the swell of fan outrage, however, and a happy ending with a recovered Jane was substituted.