The Tarzan Vault Collection Film Detective (Blu-ray)
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on September 6th, 2022
Edgar Rice Burroughs was one of the most successful novelists in American literature history. His characters have become iconic and have been the source for over a hundred films. Some haven’t done so well. His John Carter of Mars stories are where he began, but no one has been able to quite put the character on film yet in a way that has brought in any kind of box office numbers. In the 1970’s his world at the center of the Earth brought in some nice cult favorite drive-in films, most notably starring Doug McClure. He’s even written a few westerns, but without much luck. But Burroughs became the most wealthy writer of his era because of one particular character. It was Tarzan that would be adapted as far back as the silent era and remain a solid moneymaker over one hundred years later. There hasn’t been a decade since his creation that the character has not been featured in a film, television series, or movie house serial. By the 1930’s Burroughs was collecting $75,000 a film for the rights to use the character. That’s $1.6 million in today’s market. For each film.
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