Enjoy a scene from “Tarzan and the Green Goddess” featuring Herman Brix as Tarzan

Enjoy a scene from “Tarzan and the Green Goddess” featuring Herman Brix as Tarzan

A scene from Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938), starring Herman Brix (Tarzan).
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Transcript

GEORGE: I wish Tarzan wouldn't lag behind us like this. Maybe something's happened to him.

MAJOR MARTLING: Ridiculous. What would happen to Tarzan?

GEORGE: You never can tell. Suppose--suppose some of those monsters from the dead city has followed us. Well, you know, they may be right over . . .

MISS VALE: Don't be silly, George. There isn't anything to fear any longer.

MAJOR MARTLING: Come on. Let's get going. Get your men moving.

MARTLING'S MAN: Companeros.

MISS VALE: Tarzan. Tarzan. Tarzan!

RAGLAN'S MAN: Si, senor. Indian get goddess.

TARZAN: Miss Vale, are you all right?

MISS VALE: I think so.

RAGLAN: I still have to get that code book from Martling. You watch the goddess while I see what I can do.

RAGLAN'S MAN: Si, senor.

MAJOR MARTLING: The goddess, it's gone.

GEORGE: What I'd tell you? Didn't I tell you those fellas from the ruins would be on our trail?

TARZAN: Whoever stole the goddess had no connection with the dead city, George.

MISS VALE: Whom do you suspect, then?

TARZAN: It wouldn't surprise me if it were Raglan. What about the document?

MAJOR MARTLING: Thank heaven they didn't get it.

GEORGE: The code is no good without the goddess.

MAJOR MARTLING: Without this document, the thief dare not open the goddess. He'd be blown to atoms by the secret explosive it contains.

TARZAN: Then there's still a chance to recover the goddess. Have the porters make camp. Come on. Prepare camp here.