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Originally posted by Josh-da-man
Okay, I don't know what made me think of this, but when I was kid I remember watching this old black and white movie on cable. I think it was a Tarzan movie, but it might've been another old "white man's burden" type of thing.

Anyhoo, all I recall about it was this particularly gory execution scene.

It went like this: The natives had tied two trees back so that they formed an "X" shape. They then tied men to the trees so that their arms and legs were on the trunks of the trees (and their bodies were "crucified" in an "X" shape on the trees). The ropes that held the trees back were than cut, and the guys crucified to the trees were fucking torn to pieces.

Anyone know the title of this movie?

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Originally posted by j123vt_99
sounds kind of graphic for a typical Tarzan old school movie

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"Treasure" is still enjoyable, in spite of the endless use of stock footage from earlier Tarzan films. When a tribe captures Jane, Boy and the Safari members, they witness native bearers being ripped apart while tied to trees in the exact same footage from "Tarzan Escapes".

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The original version of this film, titled The Capture of Tarzan, was shown to preview audiences in 1935 and was heavily criticized for scenes of gruesome violence. The most notorious scene was one involving a giant bat attack in a swamp. Hollywood legend has it that, at the preview showing, the sight of these giant creatures carrying off panic-stricken porters sent kids screaming from the theatre. So strong was the negative reaction from parents, critics and media, that the studio ordered much of the film re-shot. MGM replaced the original director, James McKay, with a series of directors with the final credit given to Richard Thorpe. The alternate version had various working titles including: Tarzan Returns, Tarzan and the Vampires, and Tarzan The original scenes were replaced, however, by equally gruesome scenes, such as the Gabonis shooting arrows into the heads of fleeing porters, victims tied spread-eagle on bent trees being split in half when the trees were freed, Ganeloni torture rites, and the lowering of captives into a pit to be slaughtered by a man-killing giant ape. A copy of the first version has never turned up but the story line was used in the Big Little Book version

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