Tarzan's Desert Mystery
CHEER as Boy and Cheetah outwit Tarzan's captors!
Directed by Wilhelm Thiele
Produced by Sol Lesser Productions
A lighthearted 1943 adventure serial where Tarzan and Boy undertake a noble desert quest to help Jane, encountering exotic perils and colorful allies along the way.
A letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan's help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants. Tarzan and Boy set out across the desert looking for the plants. Along the way they befriend a stranded American lady magician.
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Like Tarzan's Desert Mystery
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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.
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Like Tarzan's Desert Mystery, But Less Popular
Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.
