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Auction History Result 9r925 TARZAN & THE GOLDEN LION LC '27 Pierce rescues niece & becomes a god to natives, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/20/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan and the Golden Lion, the 1927 J.P. McGowan silent action jungle adventure fantasy thriller ("The story that stirred the nation!"; "A mighty spectacle"; "Edgar Rice Burroughs' colossal jungle story"; based on the famous novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs; about Tarzan being visited in Africa by his wife and her niece and others, and his niece is kidnapped and taken to a jungle city where they worship a lion god, and they plan to sacrifice Tarzan's niece to the lion, but Tarzan shows up and kills the lion, which causes the natives to acclaim him as their new god, and all ends well!) starring James Pierce (in the title role as Tarzan, Lord Greystoke), Frederick Peters, Edna Murphy, Harold Goodwin, Dorothy Dunbar (as Lady Greystoke, Tarzan's wife), D'Arcy Corrigan, and Boris Karloff (who plays the native chief, Owaza, with much body makeup). Note that the "golden lion" of the title of the movie refers to Tarzan's pet lion in Africa, named Jad-Bal-Ja, who was featured prominently in the advertising. Also note that after five Tarzan movies between 1918 and 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs held off on making more Tarzan movies, because he was not happy with how Hollywood depicted his legendary hero. In 1927, he authorized this movie, hiring James Pierce to play the title character (and Pierce turned down the Gary Cooper role in "Wings", which made Cooper a major star, to take this role!). While most people did not feel that Pierce made a great Tarzan (they say he is better in the Lord Greystoke scenes than in the jungle scenes), and his career went nowhere after this movie, on the plus side, he married Burroughs' daughter Joan soon after the movie was released! This movie stays much more faithful to the book than most other Tarzan movies, and it was presumed lost for many years, until a French copy of it turned up, and that is 57 minutes long, so it is unclear if that is the entire movie, or a condensed version. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that first release 1927 movie posters from this Tarzan movie are incredibly rare. We have never auctioned even a single poster, lobby card, or still from this movie until we received this lobby card! The only other auction of a lobby card or poster we could find on the Internet was a title card that auctioned in 2008 for an astounding $13,145! If you are a collector of Tarzan movie paper, then this great scene lobby card may well be your only opportunity to get ANY movie paper for many years to come! Condition: very good. The card has pinholes and creases in the corners, with a few small stains around the edges. Otherwise, the card is in pretty nice condition. Note that this lobby card is completely unrestored and there is not a single piece of tape on either the front or back! Learn More about condition grades 
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