TARZAN'S Fight For Life PRESSBOOK Gordon Scott MGM 1958

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This is an ORIGINAL Pressbook from M.G.M. Metro-Goldwyn Mayer from 1958 for the continuing saga of films, Tarzan's Fight for Life Director: H. Bruce Humberstone Based on charafters by Edgar Rice Burroughs Screenplay by Thomas Hal Phillips Dr. Sturdy is trying to establish a modern hospital in the jungle. His efforts are strongly opposed by Futa, the witch doctor, and Ramo, a native warrior. T are kidnappings, a race against time for serum, capture of Tarzan, the struggle of modern medicine against magic, etc. The entire cast included: Gordon Scott ... Tarzan Eve Brent ... Jane Rickie Sorensen ... Tartu, Tarzan's Adopted Son Jil Jarmyn ... Ann Sturdy James Edwards ... Futa Carl Benton Reid ... Dr. Sturdy Harry Lauter ... Dr. Ken Warwick Woody Strode ... Ramo Pressbook has centerfold and measures 12" x 16" It has 12 pages of ad slicks photos from the film, bios on the actors, and actresses, Shirtless Shots of Gordon Scott! It does have some splits on seam and some wear on the top left but COMPLETE AND UNCUT!!! Great for the True TARZAN or MGM LOVER! MORE INFO ON GORDON SCOTT: American actor and body-builder whose greatest claim to fame was his role as the movies' eleventh (and some say best) Tarzan. Scott was born Gordon Merrill Werschkul in Portland, Oregon, one of nine children of advertising man Stanley Werschkul and his wife Alice. He grew up in Oregon, w he discovered body-building, which he took up in order, he said, to attract women. He attended the University of Oregon for one semester. Drafted into the United States Army in 1944, he served as a military policeman and drill instructor and was honorably discharged in 1947. For the next six or seven years, he worked at various jobs, mostly delivering soda pop for the beverage company owned by his brother Rafield. An offer of a job as a lifeguard at the Las Vegas Sahara Hotel led him to leave his delivery job. Soon tafter, a Hollywood talent scout took note of him and signed him to a contract with Sol Lesser , producer of the Tarzan movies. His handsome features, muscular physique, and imposing height made him an excellent choice to replace Lex Barker as Tarzan, and he won out over 200 candidates for the role. It was Lesser who changed his name from Werschkul to Scott. Scott's Tarzan films ranged from rather cheap re-edited television pilots to larger scale epics. Two of them, Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959) and Tarzan the Magnificent (1960) are generally considered to be among the very best Tarzan films ever made. Scott's (and his writers') particular gifts to the series included returning Tarzan to his former status as a literate, well-spoken character. Following his departure from the Tarzan films, he moved to Italy and became a popular star of what were known as "sword and sandal" epics, featuring handsome body-builders as various characters from Greek and Roman myth. Scott was a friend of Hercules star Steve Reeves , and collaborated with him as Remus to Reeves's Romulus in Romolo e Remo (1961). Scott also played such mythic heroes as Goliath, Zorro, and Buffalo Bill in various low-budget productions during the mid-1960s. His final film appearance, apparently, was in _Uomini dal passo pesante, Gli (1966)_, aka "The Tramplers," filmed in 1966, released in the U. S. in 1968. Scott was married apparently three times, including once to his Tarzan co-star, actress Vera Miles , from 1954 to 1959. He had one child (with Miles) and possibly several more children. For the last two decades of his life, he was a popular guest at film conventions and autograph shows. His manner of making a living the last forty years of his life is unclear, for aside from autograph shows and selling occasional souvenir knives, he does not seem to have been em... read more

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