![]() A fair amount of the location footage found its way into the final product, but it’s not integrated very well into the main narrative. Unfortunately, something went wrong with the color footage, so Tarzan’s Peril was released in black & white. So producer Sol Lesser and RKO Radio Pictures picked up the gauntlet and decided to shoot their next Tarzan picture not only in color, but on location in Kenya. ![]() The distant, rolling plains we saw in King Solomon’s Mines bore little resemblance to the dense jungles where Tarzan swung on vines. First and foremost, it showed that there was a lot less jungle in Africa than kids raised on Tarzan movies assumed there was. The lavish spectacle King Solomon’s Mines (1950) rewrote the rules of the “jungle adventure” film, since it was shot on location in Sub-Saharan Africa and instantly made all the B movies shot on soundstages and backlots look ridiculous. Sol Lesser Productions / RKO Radio Pictures ![]()
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