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Alligators and Crocodiles in Movies
 
Tarzan Escapes (1936)
 
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In this third Tarzan movie, Jane now lives in a treehouse that Tarzan built for her, complete with an elevator that's operated by an elephant.

In the crocodile scene, Cheetah, the chimpanzee, calls Tarzan over to a pond where a baby deer stranded on a log is being stalked by a crocodile. Tarzan jumps in and gets into an underwater fight with the crocodile ( a huge fake crocodile.) Then we see the same underwater footage that they used in the second movie Tarzan and His Mate (1934). I guess it was the depression and they had to cut some corners. Tarzan kills the croc and takes the baby deer back to the shore and its mother. That makes Cheetah and Jane very happy.

Tarzan swims up to Jane and brings her a flower. Then they stare at each other long and hard. The lighting on Jane's face is very dramatic. Then she drops her flower. I mean, first she had the flower, then she didn't. So it's as if she was flowered, then she was de-flowered, I guess. Clumsy Jane. I wonder if that's supposed to mean anything? Interestingly enough, the next Tarzan sequel is titled "Tarzan Finds a Son." But since the censorship code was in full effect now, and Jane and Tarzan weren't married, the baby couldn't be theirs. Sex and babies did not occur between unmarried people in the false world of the Hayes censorship era. So they made the baby a survivor of a plane crash in the jungle.