''Come On, Tarzan'' is a 1932 American
pre-Code
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western film
The Western is a film genre defined by the American Film Institute as films which are "set in the American West that mbodythe spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the new frontier." Generally set in the American frontier between the Calif ...
starring
Ken Maynard
Kenneth Olin Maynard (July 21, 1895 – March 23, 1973) was an American actor and producer. He was mostly active from the 1920s to the 1940s and considered one of the biggest Western (genre), Western stars in Hollywood.
Maynard was also an occa ...
,
Merna Kennedy
Merna Kennedy (born Maude Kahler; September 7, 1908 – December 20, 1944) was an American actress of the late Silent film, silent era and the transitional period into Sound film, talkies.
Career
She was born in Kankakee, Illinois, Kankakee, o ...
, and
Niles Welch
Niles Eugene Welch (July 29, 1888 – November 21, 1976) was an American performer on Broadway, and a leading man in a number of silent and early talking motion pictures from the early 1910s through the 1930s.
Early life
A native of Hartford, ...
.
First released on September 11, 1932, it was filmed in California in
Hidden Valley, Ventura County and in
Kernville, Kern County. It was produced by K.B.S. Productions Inc.
Plot
A ranch foreman at odds with his female boss, fights outlaws who are killing horses for dog food.
[Taliaferro, John (2002). ''Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs the Creator of Tarzan''. Simon and Schuster, p. 259; ]
Cast
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Ken Maynard
Kenneth Olin Maynard (July 21, 1895 – March 23, 1973) was an American actor and producer. He was mostly active from the 1920s to the 1940s and considered one of the biggest Western (genre), Western stars in Hollywood.
Maynard was also an occa ...
as Ken Benson
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Merna Kennedy
Merna Kennedy (born Maude Kahler; September 7, 1908 – December 20, 1944) was an American actress of the late Silent film, silent era and the transitional period into Sound film, talkies.
Career
She was born in Kankakee, Illinois, Kankakee, o ...
as Pat Riley
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Niles Welch
Niles Eugene Welch (July 29, 1888 – November 21, 1976) was an American performer on Broadway, and a leading man in a number of silent and early talking motion pictures from the early 1910s through the 1930s.
Early life
A native of Hartford, ...
as Steve Frazier
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Roy Stewart
Roy Stewart (15 May 1925 – 27 October 2008) was a Jamaican-born British actor. He began his career as a stuntman and went on to work in film and television.
In 1954 he founded Roy Stewart's Gym in Powis Square, North Kensington, and ran th ...
as Butch - Henchman
*Kate Campbell as Aunt Martha
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Bob Kortman
Robert F. Kortman (December 24, 1887 – March 13, 1967) was an American film actor mostly associated with westerns, though he also appeared in a number of Laurel and Hardy comedies. He appeared in more than 260 films between 1914 and 1952.
193 ...
as Spike - Henchman
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Nelson McDowell
Nelson McDowell (August 14, 1870 – November 3, 1947) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 170 films between 1917 and 1945.
McDowell was born in Greenville, Missouri. His parents were N. B. McDowell and Anne Hampton. He attend ...
as Slim - Cowhand
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Jack Rockwell
Jack Rockwell Trowbridge (October 6, 1890 – November 10, 1947) was an American film actor who was born in Mexico. He appeared in over 250 movies, mostly Westerns, between 1927 and 1947.
Rockwell's older brother was character actor Charles ...
as Sheriff
References
External links
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1932 films
1932 Western (genre) films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Alan James
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