Johnny Weissmüller Movies

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...

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...

Football player Bob Miller, played by an actual football player, is lost in the jungle. Who else to find him but Jungle Jim.

A celebration of Hollywood in the 1930s, featuring a compilation of clips from features and newsreels of the era.

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

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

Jungle Jim searches for a female Army captain who's gone missing.

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

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

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller battle it out in Cajun country! Johnny, a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi, is seduced away from his fiance...

Nasty white hunters are testing out their germ warfare weapons using wild animals in Africa… until they run into Jungle Jim.

In this film of the Earl's Court Aquashow, several stars of the sporting world are brought to the screen to demonstrate their skill.

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

Jungle Jim helps an attractive research writer for the British museum clear up the mystery of a tiger cult in Africa while thwarting art thieves and...

After a trip to Hollywood, two young ladies attempt to hitchhike home but end up at a star-filled rodeo.

A profile of Johnny Weissmuller, best known for his role of Tarzan in numerous movies as well as Jungle Jim.