Several observations on this film

I just watched the 12 chapters over two days and have the following observations:

-Herman Brix is an amazing Tarzan. He is athletic, graceful and has great screen presence. His Tarzan yell is just the perfect "animal" expression of his personality.

-Ula Holt is quite wooden throughout this film. She is much better at the end when she impersonates the old gypsy woman. She was romantically linked with producer Ashton Dearholt, which explains why she is in the film. She looks amazing when she lets her hair down but much too prim and proper otherwise.

-As a general rule, the acting is atrocious in this film. The dialogue is very stilted.

-The "comic relief" is overdone and gets tiresome. There is nothing good to say about the turtle scene. It just shouldn't be there.

-The character of Tarzan is much closer to the one in the books. He is a cultured, educated man here. He just happens to have an animal, primitive side that comes out when he needs it.

-The Guatemalan locations are spectacular. There are many great jungle scenes throughout and some eye-popping waterfalls and rivers.

-They should not have bothered with the 12 chapters and instead released a single film running 95-100 minutes with the best material. The 12 chapters as they stand are very repetitive. Fights scenes have Tarzan fight off a dozen natives at a time several times throughout. Characters go to and fro constantly throughout several chapters seemingly in an attempt to burn up some screen time in order to have the full 12 chapters. This gets very annoying.

-You should not watch more than a couple of chapters at any one sitting.

-Overall ok but could have been a thousand times better if they had better dialogue and scrapped the serial format in favor of a single 95 minute film.