Tarzan and the Golden Lion is a 1927 American Tarzan film directed by J. P. McGowan based on the 1923 novel of the same name written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It stars James Pierce as Tarzan, Frederick Peters as Esteban Miranda, Dorothy Dunbar as Jane, and Edna Murphy as Betty Greystoke. It also stars Boris Karloff as Owaza, a tribesman. The film was distributed by the Film Booking Offices of America.
Cast
James Pierce as Tarzan
Frederick Peters as Esteban Miranda, villain
Edna Murphy as Betty Greystoke, Tarzan's sister
Harold Goodwin as Jack Bradley
Dorothy Dunbar as Jane Porter Clayton, Lady Greystoke, Tarzan's wife
D'Arcy Corrigan as Weesimbo
Boris Karloff as Owaza
Robert Bolder as John Peebles
Production
Tarzan and the Golden Lion was Pierce's only on-screen appearance as Tarzan. The next year, he married the daughter of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the two went on to perform the voices of Tarzan and Jane in a Tarzan radio series from 1932 to 1936.
Preservation status
Considered a lost film for many decades - with Pierce trying in vain to locate a copy before his death - a complete print of the film was discovered in the 1990s.