Sir Donovan (Gualtiero Isnenghi) learns that a tribe in Kenya has a white woman, Tarzana (Femi Benussi, Bloody Pit of Horror, So Sweet, So Dead), whom he believes is his granddaughter, Elizabeth. Somehow, she has survived the airplane crash that her parents died in over the African jungle. The rich elderly man and his niece, Doris (Franca Polesello), hire Glen Shipper (Ken Clark, Gunman Called Nebraska) to find her. However, they’re joined by her cousin Groder (Franco Ressel), who plans to kill Elizabeth to remain the only heir.
The crew also has a native woman, Kamala (Beryl Cunningham, The Weekend Murders), who sends the men into lust pains with her dancing. All while Tarzana watches Glen and gets jealous of the way Doris is all over him. That said, Femi Benussi is perhaps one of the most gorgeous women of all time, even if she somehow found eye shadow in the jungle. She also has a chimp who is dubbed and tells her that she doesn’t need to put her clothes on.
Tarzana was directed by Guido Malatesta, who mainly made peplum like Maciste Contro i Cacciatori di Teste. A year before this, he made a very similar movie, Samoa, Queen of the Jungle. Edwige Fenech plays the jungle girl in that. I’m certain right now you’ve stopped reading this and gone off to find it. If you’re still here, this was co-written with Gianfranco Clerici, who would come back to the jungle years later and write Cannibal Holocaust.
You can watch this on YouTube.
