Johnny Weissmüller Movies

A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the...

An MGM short promoting the studio's impact on fashion through film through their chief of costume design, Adrian; in rural America, a mother and...

Jungle-Jim type Johnny Weissmuller helps Professor Blakely look for a missing colleague who is now playing "god" for a bunch of natives.

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Famous Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

The history of the Tarzan films is presented through behind-the-scenes footage and scenes from the Jungle King’s many classic movies.

The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training...

Jungle Jim is forced to lead anthropologist Dr. Edwards into a land inhabited by giant people.

Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being...

An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a...

Jungle Jim fights a lion and sharks trying to save an African village from those who would despoil it.

Jungle Jim must protect rare pony-like animals whose glands produce a powerful narcotic. On the way, he fights a giant spider.

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

Priestess Oma is forever young in this Jungle Jim knockoff of "She" or the La of Opar stories from "Tarzan". The Jungle Jim-type character is played...

The glorious and tragic story of American athlete and actor Johnny Weissmuller (1904-84), Olympic swimmer, water polo player and the only true...

Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day...

Nazis dressed to look like Great Apes are looking for gold, and Jungle Jim must stop them.