Johnny Weissmüller Movies

A shortage of zoo animals after World War II brings beautiful animal trainer Tanya, her financial backer and her cruel trail boss to the jungle....

A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.

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...

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

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...

In order to infiltrate a gang of drug smugglers, a cop is sent undercover to participate in a drag-queen beauty contest aboard a cruise ship.

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

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 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.

Jungle Jim fights enemy agents who are trying to steal cobalt while disguised as crocodiles.

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

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

Bad guys trying to steal the mineral rights away from African natives find it isn't so easy fighting Jungle Jim.

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

Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe.

Jungle Jim battles enemy agents while helping a local tribe relocate from an atomic test bomb site.

Johnny Weismuller, Esther Williams and other aquatic champions present an exhibition of swimming and diving.

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

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.