Video Blue Film Tarzan X -

Not Tarzan, but its intellectual cousin. Charlton Heston plays a cocoa planter who sends for a mail-order bride (Eleanor Parker). The jungle is a metaphor for their repressed sexuality. When a plague of army ants (the "Marabunta") attacks, the film explodes into one of the great disaster sequences. The subtext is clear: civilization (the plantation house) is under siege by nature (the ants/desire). Sweat, tension, and Heston’s biceps.

Now go swing through the vines of YouTube, archive.org, and your local cult DVD store. The jungle is waiting. Just remember to keep your loincloth on—at least until the second feature. Video Blue Film Tarzan X

: A sweeping, Academy Award-nominated epic that focuses on the character's struggle between the wild and British aristocracy. Not Tarzan, but its intellectual cousin