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17Apr16 Tarzan and the Lost City (1998)

While undemanding viewers and children may find something to enjoy in TARZAN AND THE LOST CITY, most viewers will be left bewildered, shaking their heads at the wasted opportunity to make an entertaining action adventure. It could very well be the worst Tarzan movie ever made.

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Tagged Casper Van Dien, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jane March, Jungle Adventure, Tarzan

8Apr16 Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)

The most misleading thing about this movie is the title – TARZAN THE APE MAN. While Tarzan does appear in the film – from about the 60 minute mark – the story is primarily about Jane Parker (Bo Derek) and her journey to Africa to find her estranged father, James Parker (Richard Harris).

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Tagged Bo Derek, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Phillip Law, Jungle Ad, Miles O'Keefe, Richard Harris, Sexploitation, Tarzan

5Apr16 Tarzan and the Great River (1967)

TARZAN AND THE GREAT RIVER was made in 1967 when spymania still had some legs in it (1965 was the peak), so Mike Henry’s Tarzan is a suited and booted globe-trotting trouble shooter – not quite a Bondian superspy but certainly a jet-setting man-of-the world.

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Tagged Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jungle Adventure, Mike Henry, Tarzan

Books and other publications David’s work has appeared in

Fight Card: King of the Outback – the sixth book in the popular Fight Card series.

Fight Card: Rumble in the Jungle – the thirteenth book in the Fight Card series.

Iron Head & Other Stories – a charity anthology. Writing as James Hopwood, David contributed the story ‘Bushwhacked’.

Action: Pulse Pounding Tales – Vol 1. Think back to the days when heroes were heroes and the action was furious and full-blooded. Writing as James Hopwood, David contributed ‘Cutter’s Law’.

Action: Pulse Pounding Tales – Vol 2. Thirty Action-packed Pulse Pounding Tales! Writing as James Hopwood, David contributed, ‘Get Cutter!’

Crime Factory: LEE – Lee Marvin: one of the most coolly charismatic and extraordinary screen tough guys ever. Crime Factory celebrates Marvin’s life by making him the star of his own fictional adventures. As James Hopwood ‘1963: Trust’.

Crime Factory 10 (as James Hopwood ‘For Your Sighs Only’ – a nostalgic look at the spy-fi smut of Clyde Allison)

Crime Factory 11 (as James Hopwood ‘Hail, the Haymaker Kid’ – a look at the boxing pulps of the 40s and 50s)

Crime Factory 13 (as james Hopwood ‘As Long as the Paperwork’s Clean’ – an interview with Australian cinema icon, Roger Ward)

The LIBRIO Defection – Introducing Jarvis Love, in a white knuckle action adventure which harks back to the great spy novels of the ’60s and ’70s, but infused with the high-octane punch of a modern thriller.

Bushwhacked – A fight fiction short, set on the Central Victorian Goldfields.

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