After
finishing school, Boy or as he was legally known,
Richard Lansing, (if you have not read the background on him please click here) returned to Africa and began living on the escarpment
again. He assumed the identity of
Tarzan, in honor of his adopted Father and because he realized that the
name
invoked respect, and he intended to do as much as he could to preserve
African
wildlife and native cultures while bringing Africa into the modern age. Besides he was as
entitled to the name as had
been his adopted father, he too had been adopted by mangani and named
White
Skin although his full name had been Tarzaneta. Little White Skin. Lansing had also become aware that his father
was not the
only person using that name. While visiting his cousin Oliver he had
been told
that two distant relatives of his family had used the name, John
Clayton, Lord
Greystoke and John Cloamby, Lord Grandrith.
At first
he adopted the
speech pattern and mannerisms of his adopted Father to give credence to
idea
that Tarzan had returned to his homeland. His first recorded adventure
isTarzan's Magic Fountain which
was the
first of the Lex Barker Tarzan films.
With the
introduction of the new Tarzan we notice first of all that Tarzan is
blond, has
slightly better diction, is not as beefy and wears moccasins. The
reason for
the latter is simple, over the last few years of wearing street shoes
the
callous on Richard Lansing's feet had softened.
Lansing had also brought with him into the
jungle a wife,
a young woman that he had met at school. Her name was oddly enough,
Jane the
first real Jane to be portrayed in the films. Jane's full name was Jane
Eugenia
Smith-Jones of the renown Boston Smith-Jones. Although her father,
Waldo
Emerson Smith-Jones and her mother Nadara de la Valois Smith-Jones were
respectively a Boston Brahmin and a aristocratic Russian heir, Jane
took to the
primitive life with relish.
Not much
should be read
into the fact that the Lex Barker and Gordon Scott Tarzan's had a
different
Jane each time one was presented in a film. It was just the Hollywood had a hard time capturing the essence
of this
particular Jane.
Cheta
finds cloth pouch
containing a cigarette case and diary. It is the diary of Gloria James.
Jane
says that she remembers that Gloria James had attempted an around the
world
flight in 1929, "when she was a little girl", which proves that she
was not the first movie Jane, since Janet Parker was a grown woman by
1929.
The pouch
and certain
landmarks seem to indicate that Lansing and his wife are living in the
tree
house on the Escarpment. Lansing
probably wanted to live in the house he was raised it and to keep tabs
on his
friends, the mangani and the elephants.
Jane
insists that Lansing turn the pouch and its contents over to
the nearby
authorities so that Gloria James family will at least know what
happened to
her. Reluctant at first, he agrees. When they arrive in the nearby town
of Randini, they learn that there is a reward for
the
whereabouts of Gloria James, since she could clear a man of murder that
he
might not have committed. A flier and a hunter agree to split the
reward for
informing her family of her fate.
Hearing
this Tarzan mutters
cryptically "Tell them Gloria James maybe not dead." He and
Jane return to the tree house and Lansing begins gathering food and weapons for a
two or
three day excursion. He tells Jane he has to check something out, he
will be
back in a day or two.
Tarzan
returns with a
beautiful young woman. Jane asks her name, she claims to be Gloria
James. Lansing then tells Jane the entire story.
Gloria James'
plane had crashed as it flew over the escarpment. Her co-pilot was dead
and she
was nearly dead. To save her life, Tarzan carried her to the Blue Valley where people drink out of a glowing
spring that not only has amazing
curative powers but also maintains youth. The water has to be drank at
least
once a week or the aging process begins once more.
The flier
and hunter
are flabbergasted when the young Gloria James books passage to America.
Tarzan
and Jane get a
mail drop that informs them that Gloria James freed the man from prison
and
married him. They would be coming to Africa soon.
They meet
Gloria at the
base of the escarpment. The plane lands on the plain near the
escarpment. When
Gloria James returns she has aged at least ten years. She asks Tarzan
to lead
her and her husband back to the Blue Valley. He refuses having taken a solemn vow
not to take anyone there again.
The flier and hunter are apparently stranded, a part has gone bust on
the
plane. They ask Tarzan if they can tag along. He states that he will
take them
over the escarpment but that is it.
Because
of Tarzan's
refusal to lead them Jane says she will do so. Her efforts show that
while she
was brave, resourceful and strong willed, she was totally unfamiliar
with this
jungle. She certainly had not been living there for twenty years.
Keeping out
of sight, Lansing follows closely, amused at their antics.
One night
while
everyone slept, Lansing awoke Gloria James and her husband and
lead them
out of the camp. He took them to the Blue Valley. The flier and hunter forced Jane at
gun point to track Tarzan.
Gloria
James and her
Husband are welcomed to the Blue Valley, however no one else is to be permitted
in or out. Their spring is
shown glowing water arcing up from a hidden source. If Kor is also
located in
this vast monolithic, cavern strewn mountain, then it is possible that
the Blue Valley's spring and Kor's Fire of Life have
the same source. Kor's Fire of
Life appears to be a volcanic vent, probably radioactive in nature. The
Spring
in the Blue Valley could possibly pass through part of the
cooler section of the volcanic
vent.
Jane and
her two
escorts arrive at the narrow mountain pass leading to the stone bridge
connecting one peak to another. The guards of the Blue Valley fire on them, shooting large flaming
balustrade bolts. A flaming bolt
transfixes both of the men and set the surrounding foliage on fire. Lansing jumps across the chasm and saves Jane.
Tarzan
and the Slave Girl is
the next
recorded adventure of the Lansings.
Jane now carries a bow, knows some of the native languages and can read
a
trail. Tarzan has discarded the moccasins and carries a bow as well.
Girls are
being abducted from native villages by strangely dressed men. They are
from a
city called Mionia. Their culture seems to be a strange blend of
Hittite,
Babylonian and Egyptian. These men are also infected with a disease.
Tarzan
stops one abduction from taking place but has to hurry to Randini to
get a
doctor and his nurse to stop the strange disease from affecting more
than one
village.
The
doctor comes to the
native village accompanied by Lola, his nurse, who is an educated
native girl.
The natives are once again depicted as pseudo- polynesian but there are
smatterings of Black Africans as bearers. In reality they were
all Black
Africans except fo the Mionians.
Jane and
Lola stay at
the tree house while Tarzan and the Doctor go among the native tribes
distributing the serum. The Mionians find Jane and Lola and abduct
them. After
the natives have been cured, the Doctor and Tarzan decide to track the
mysterious abductors to their homeland, to rescue the abducted girls
and to
cure the population of the abductors.
The
Mionians live in a
valley deep inside a mountain range. The entrance to the valley is
through a
dense jungle guardian by fierce tribe known as the Waddies. They are a
Black
African tribe that are friends to the Mionians. The Waddies dress like
shrubbery and use blowguns with poison darts. Once Tarzan and his party
manage
to get past the Waddies they must cross a chasm bridged by a fallen
tree and
then down rocky crags, scrub and finally dense jungle land again.
Jane and
Lola hold off
the advances of the abductors and the advances of the Prince of Mionia.
They
attempt escape and for that crime are sentenced to be sealed alive in
the tomb
of the recently deceased King of Mionia. Tarzan rescues them. The
Mionians have
been abducting women because of the toll the disease has taken on their
populous. They are, I believe, a genuinely lost city, one of the
forgotten
Atlantean outposts. Their culture was the primary one from which was
derived
Babylonian, Egyptian and Hittite cultures.
In
payment for their
curing the Mionians of the disease, especially the Prince's son, The
Mionians
agree not to make any more raids for slave girls.
Next up
is Tarzan's Peril. The
background story is one of
crime and intrigue. There are two native tribes, which are surprisingly
depicted as Black Africans. One tribe, the Ashuba, ruled by Queen
Melmendi wishes to be a part of the colonial system and obeys the rules
of the
King as determined by her Commissioner. One of them is no guns.
Another
group wishes to
use modern technology but not be ruled by England or any other foreign power. The King
of this
tribe wishes to make Queen Melmendi his wife but she refuses.
A group
of criminal
types lead by Radichek carries a load of weapons to sell to King Bulan.
Radichek is not a common criminal he is apparently an agent at large
for the Soviet
Union, using
whatever means at his disposal to
destabilize the country.
Radichek
and his band
encounter the Commissioners, the retiring one and his replacement.
Radichek
shoots them down in cold blood. He sells the guns to King Bulan and
then makes
himself scarce. He kills his accomplice. King Bulan's men use the guns
to
capture the Ashuba village and take Queen Melmendi prisoner. Tarzan is
recovering from a concussion when he is captured as well. When King
Bulan's men
had drunk themselves in a stupor, Tarzan and Melmendi free the other
prisoners
and take the guns themselves, turning the tables on their captives.
Tarzan
tracks down
Radichek. Radichek Radichek runs out of ammunition and is killed by
Tarzan in
hand to hand combat.
In the
next film, Tarzan's Savage
Fury we learn quite a
bit about the Lansing family. A man claiming to be Oliver
Greystoke
accompanied by a guide makes his way to the Escarpment. However, the
audience
had been shown that the true Oliver Greystoke had been killed by the
guide,
Rokoff and another Englishman, named Edwards, assumed the role.
He claims
to be Lansings cousin, whom Lansing had never met, he always being away
when Lansing had visited his relatives. They have in
their
possession a diary written by Richard Lansing during the years 1922-23
(whom
they incorrectly call Lord Greystoke in the film). Lansing was an anthropologist. In 1922 he was
studying a
tribe which the film calls the Waziri. This might have come from the
screenwriters attempt to use Burroughsian phrases in the films such as
when
Gordon Scott is made to say, "I was raised by Kerchak the great
ape" Or they may have been an offshoot of this great tribe or
more
than likely from a tribe with a similar name.
In the
diary Richard
Lansing sr. writes of his family and of his newly born son. He also
says that
they Waziri use huge uncut diamonds in their religious ceremonies. Lansing sr. returned with his family to England and obviously intended to return to
studying the
Waziri for they left quite a bit of material in the cabin. However on
the
return trip, while flying over the escarpment, their plane crashed and
all but
Richard Lansing jr. was killed.
Oliver
Greystoke tells Lansing that to help England and America keep their technological superiority in
the world
they should see if they can convince these Waziri to trade the
diamonds, to be
used in industrial applications not for the pursuit of wealth.
Lansing was much more aware of world events
than his
adoptive father had been and realized what they said had the ring of
truth to
it.
The film
has Tarzan
leading Jane, Rokoff and Greystoke to the Waziri village from memory.
However Lansing pinpointed the area from directional
clues and a
map enclosed in the diary. They are seen crossing a large mountain
range and
then a desert area before emerging into another jungle. They must flee
from a
cannibal tribe before finding the Waziri village.
Once in
the Waziri
village they are marked as evil omens by a local witch doctors. Perhaps
the
"Waziri" had not had very good relations with Caucasians after
Richard Lansing sr.and his family departed.
An older
man who had
been taught English by Lansing
sr. interprets for them. The Chief has trouble believing that this
young man is
indeed the son of their friend Richard Lansing, furthermore he does not
believe
that he had grown into the legendary figure of Tarzan. He must travel
to the Lansing's cabin to get proof. The Lansing's had lived a day's travel from the
Waziri
village, Lansing had wanted this much of a buffer zone
between his
family and the unknown element of the tribe.
When
Tarzan and the
older man leave, the others are left in a guarded cabin. Cheta finds
Oliver
Greystoke's passport and passes it to Jane, which may indicate that
Cheta and
the other mangani, although unable to write could read to some extent.
The
passport proves Oliver Greystoke an impostor. Rokoff is then revealed
as a
Russian agent.
That Lansing should have encountered two Russian
agents in such
a short time does seem a bit incredulous but we must remember that the
time
period. The cold war was just beginning and Russia saw Africa and other
third world nations as areas where colonial exploitation could be
turned into
anti-capitalist pro-communist rebellions. As it turns out this plan had
a
limited success, some African groups accepted the funding and supplies
from the
Soviet Union and its agents but paid lip service to
its
sentiments. When the Africans took power, they generally followed their
own
agendas.
Rokoff,
may have been
related to the villain in Return of Tarzan or this may be
another
Burroughsian reference thrown into the script. He uses slight of hand
to wow
the Waziri populous and walks into the great temple to loot the temple
of its
diamonds. The Witch doctor finds him there and is paralyzed with fear
when
Rokoff uses sleight of hand to appear to being taking items from out of
th
Witch Doctor's body. Taking advantage of this, Rokoff stabs the Witch
Doctor to
death.
Edwards
and Rokoff flee
with a chest of diamonds and a ham radio. Using the radio Rokoff calls
for a
plane to land with a crew that will liberate the rest of the diamonds.
Edwards
had been
wounded earlier and is sick with fever. Rokoff disposes of his
liability by
tossing him off a cliff into a lion's den.
Tarzan
and the older
man arrive just in time to hear Edwards' cries.
Rokoff tells
Tarzan that
his cousin had stumbled and fallen off the cliff. Tarzan climbs down a
vine to
rescue Edwards. Rokoff cuts the vine and leaves him to the lions.
(Although in
the film, Rokoff shoots at Tarzan cutting the vine and Tarzan becomes
buried
under a landslide to be rescued by a young boy that accompanied them.)
Tarzan
manages to
escape the lions and scale the cliff as Rokoff is giving final
instructions on
how to land the plane. He shoots his revolver until it is empty and
then tosses
it at Tarzan. Lansing and Rokoff resort ot fists. Tarzan knocks Rokoff
out and
throws him down to the lions.
Cheta has
meanwhile
taken to operating the radio, she had some experience with radios from
the incident
with the Nazi's. In the static her mangani chatter sounds like
directions which
causes the plane to smash into the side of a mountain.
Tarzan
carries the
chest of stolen diamonds back to the Waziri village and rescues Jane
from an
execution. The older man shows the chief the book that proves Lansing jr's identity. Although the film
portrays it as a
bible, it was more than likely a photo album with pictures of Lansing's family along with pictures of the
tribesmen.
Although in the film the older man had said to Tarzan upon their
arrival at the
cabin, "This is where you lived before your Father and Mother were
killed
and you went to live among the apes" This is a fictional phrase which
confuses Burroughs Tarzan with Lansing. The older man probably told Lansing this was where he had lived with his
parents
before they all went away.
The film
has a
character which is mostly a Hollywood creation. Tarzan acquires an orphaned
Caucasian
boy who has run away from a mission school from a group of our old
friends the
Gaboni. They had hired Joey Martin to act as crocodile bait. He swims
out into
the river on a rope and attract the attention of a crocodile and swims
back.
The Gaboni then spear the crocodile. Lansing objects to them using boys as bait and
tells them
to stop. In the film Joey Martin then stays with Tarzan and Jane and
becomes
their adopted son. In reality, Lansing returned the boy to the mission school.
The next
vehicle based
on the exploits Richard Lansing, Tarzan was Tarzan and the She Devil. To
summarize the rather convoluted plot, Ivory poachers working in concert
with a
slaver who is a Caucasian woman named Lyra raid a native village at
night and
enslave all of the men. The women of the Li-koko tribe journey to see
Tarzan
and ask him to free their men. He travels to Dagar and frees the men
but is
seen doing so. Lyra accompanies her men as they go to round up the
escaped
slaves. She comes up with a plan to first bribe Tarzan but when that
fails,
they are to capture Jane and raid the Li-koko village simultaneously.
She wants
to force Tarzan to call the elephants for her.
Tarzan
suspects they
will raid the Li-Koko village again and travels there, just as the raid
begins.
The movie has him hearing the raid and rushing off, but if he was still
living
on the escarpment as I suspect this would be next to impossible.
The group
that is
supposed to capture Jane sets the tree house on fire. They believe that
Jane
perished in the fire. She however had jumped to safety and sustained a
head injury,
she laid concussed and delirious for days.
Even with
Tarzan's help
the Li-koko were overpowered by the raiders' firepower and
ruthlessness.
Although the film does not show it, I suspect the raiders threatened to
kill
the villager's children unless the men surrendered. Tarzan surrendered
but only
to bide his time. However the group that was supposed to capture Jane
returned
and informed Lyra and Tarzan of her death. He broke free and raced to
the
escarpment, upon discovering the burnt house and no sign of Jane, Lansing became careless and was knocked
unconscious.
The film
showed him as
being lethargic and complacent, even when Lyra's thuggish henchman
whips him
repeatedly with a sjambok. The film attributes this to his grief but I
suspect
drugs were used to keep him in a dazed and confused state. He however
refuses
to call the elephants into a giant stockade to be slaughtered.
An
elephant, (probably
directed by Cheta, although her doing so is not shown in the film)
carries Jane
to the Li-koko village where the women and old men care for her.
When Jane
goes to Dagar
to see if she can find Tarzan Lyra takes her captive. She takes Jane to
the
hunters camp and tells Tarzan that if will not call the elephants, she
will be
killed. He agrees. He calls the elephants and has the Li-koko men shut
the
gates to stockade just before the elephants get there, diverting the
elephants
to stampede the hunters camp. Lyra and her henchman are killed and
Tarzan
rescues Jane at the last moment.
The
natives, including
the Li-koko are once more portrayed as psuedo-polynesian but since they
do not
represent any type of lost civilization, they were quite likely Black
Africans.
Lyra and her main henchmen were however ex-patriate Europeans, probably
wanted
criminals. The guards and soldiers where probably a blend of Arab and
Europeans.
I suspect
that after
the tree house on the escarpment was destroyed, Lansing and Jane moved
off the
escarpment and down to the the tree house next to the river that
Tarzan-2 had
built years before. Tarzan's next three adventures are without Jane.
While it
is possible that they split up, it also possible that she returned to
the U.S. for further education. The Lansings had realized that to better help the
animals and
peoples of Africa they would do better as accredited
professionals.
Jane went first.
Tarzan
and the Lost Safari is
a Gordon Scott vehicle but I believe
that this and the
later films portray the Lansing Tarzan as he was undergoing a
transition and
slowly changing the image of Tarzan the inarticulate ape-man to one
that was
closer to his own personality.
Tarzan
and the Lost
Safari involves five people on a private plane that crashes because
the
amateur pilot flew into a flock of birds. Tarzan is nearby and rescues
them
from the downed aircraft. He also agrees to lead them to a more
modernized
area. They have landed in an area controlled by a tribe which film
calls Opar.
This is once again a Burroughsian reference tossed into the script by
the
screenwriters.
Nearby is
a white
hunter named Hawkins who finds the plane crash survivors at the same
time. He
makes a deal with the Oparians to lead the Caucasians into Opar for
sacrifices,
in return he will get gold and ivory.
Pretending to guide
them to the coast, Hawkins leads the party into the clutches of the
Oparians.
Tarzans rescues them and makes it appear as though Hawkins had
double-crossed
the Oparians. While the Oparians are dealing with Hawkins, Tarzan and
the
others make their escape. After they are safe, Tarzan inquires from why
the
party had given more credence to Hawkins words than to his. It was
because
Hawkins did not appear to be an ignorant savage.
Lansing determines to end his portrayal of the
grunting
ape-man Tarzan. In his next solo venture,Tarzan's
Greatest Adventure he speaks proper English. A group of men raid a
settlement at night, killing several men. Although they appear Black,
this is
found to be a ruse, they had darkened their faces with berry juice. The
radio
operator whom they had killed mouthed the word Slade. This was a former
hunter
who had known Tarzan. Slade and his companions goal is to travel
down
river and work a diamond mine which the Slade knew about. Hearing of
the raid,
Tarzan felt responsible for the Slade's involvement and tracks them. He
is
hindered in his efforts by a female adventureress. She had been flying
a small
plane, had shown off in front of Tarzan and ended cracking up.
There are
several
engagements between Tarzan and the boatload of criminals. The first
crook to
perish, however is killed by one of his cohorts. Tarzan is seriously
injured by
thrown dynamite in one of the battles, although he manages to account
for one
of the crooks. As he heals up, nursed by the woman Angie, the
remaining
members of the party make their way to the mine entrance.
While
Slade is laying
traps for Tarzan, the other remaining crook, a myopic Dutch geologist
tries to
rape Slade's girlfriend. She runs screaming from camp and winds up
impaled on
one of Slade's traps.
The
geologist claimed
she saw a snake.
Slade and
Kruger enter
the mine and try to double cross each other. Kruger ends up thrown down
an old
mine shaft. Tarzan gives Angie the criminals' boat and sends her on way.
Slade and
Tarzan fight
it out. First with bow against rifle, then hand to hand as Slade tries
to
garrote Tarzan with a wire snare. After Slade's defeat Tarzan uses his
victory
cry for the first and only time in this film.
In Tarzan the Magnificent he
also speaks
perfect English. The Bantons, a family of criminals wanted in several
African
countries free Coy Banton from jail, killing several policemen as they
do. A police friend of Tarzan's tracks the Banton's. At night he
sneaks
into their camp and makes off with Coy Banton. However the wily
Banton's track
him and manage to lay an ambush. He is killed paddled down the river in
a
canoe. Tarzan arrives too late to save his friend and manages to kill
one of
the Banton's and make the other flee. He recaptures Coy Banton and
takes him to
the nearest village but the villagers will not help him for fear of
reprisals
from the Banton's.
Tarzan
plans to put
Banton on the Riverboat which is due the next day and ride with him to
a nearby
large city so he can collect the reward money for Banton's capture and
give it
to the constable's family. However Banton's family shoot the riverboat
captain,
put ashore the passengers and set fire to the boat.
The
passengers trek
their way into the village. When Tarzan announces his intention to
travel with
Banton on foot, each of the passengers has compelling reasons to
accompany him.
Tarzan,
his prisoner
and the passengers travel through the jungle pursued by the Banton's.
Coy
Banton is wily and smart and manages to get the others to leave clues
that will
keep his family on track. He eventually seduces the unhappy wife of a
businessman to let him go.
They run off together but when
she becomes
tired and can no longer travel, he abandons her.
A pride
of lions find
and feast upon her. Tarzan tracks Banton and his family, which now
consists of
Coy and his wounded father. The Bantons climb to high ground on some
rocks and
attempt to catch Tarzan in a crossfire. Coy accidentally kills his
father and
then runs out of ammunition.
The fight
between
Banton and Tarzan is short and deadly. However, Tarzan refrains from
killing
him. He takes the remnants of the travelers to the border and drops
Banton off.
This is
the last filmed
exploit of Richard Lansing, Tarzan. However he agreed to allow more of
his
adventures to be told in exchange for receiving funds for wildlife
preservation
and various other projects that would preserve much of Africa as it struggled to take its place in
the modern world.
The
adventures were
however to be highly fictionalized with only some truthful elements to
lend the
stories an authentic ring. One of his reasons was to make the Native
African
peoples and animals more sympthathetic to the average European or
American
person. To this end, they left out his wife, created a Boy substitute
and made
his back story a cipher. To his disappointment however they had made
the jungle
almost South American in its look and created a fantasy jungle
population made
up of Blacks and Native Americans.
He had
evidently
supplied the producers with story ideas from the period of his life
from 1960
to 1965 which were turned into the Tarzan
television show starrying Ron Ely. Several
events
occurred around 1965 which caused Lansing to retire as Tarzan or at
least go on
hiatus for a while.
The
nations of Africa
were becoming truly independent and in many cases were trying to rid
themselves
of all European influences, good or bad. Despite having been born in
Africa and
having lived there most of his life, Richard Lansing was looked upon as
foreign
intruder. His efforts to help preserve the native wildlife or help
native
Africans deal with modernization were viewed with suspicion and
distrust.
There was
also the
added factor that he was fatigued. Sometime around 1961 the Escarpment
experienced
a series of strange events as some unknown force triggered several
dormant
dimensional rifts in the Mutia escarpments cavern system and peaks.
There appeared the cave cities of Bamo and Ondo where men had black and
white
plumes instead of hair. A traveler stumbled on to the city and returned
with an
army of criminals. For in it was a huge emerald called the Night of the
Light.
Lansing, with his visiting cousin Frederick Pembroke, defeated the
Eurasian
cutthroats that had invaded the escarpment and survive the war that the
stealing of the Emerald precipitated.
A group of Belgian criminals, fleeing justice and turmoil in the
Belgian Congo
find their way onto the Escarpment. They discover a hitherto unknown
portal on
the Escarpment that leads to a land where Snake people live, they have
the
heads of humans and the bodies of Snakes like the legendary Nagas.
Their
attempt to rob
both of the tribes of their precious stores of radium spills over into
the
escarpment proper. Tarzan and Jane investigate. Jane is captured and
held for
hostage. Unless Tarzan returns with the criminals and the supply of
radium, she
will be put to death.
Tarzan
becomes aware of
stories from the mangani of another tribe of mangani who have suddenly
started
populating the snow capped peaks of the escarpment. Intrigued by this
Tarzan,
Jane, some of the great apes and a newspaper reporter who is an old
school mate
of the Lansings travel up the peaks to discover a race of Yeti's living
on the
peaks of the escarpment.
They also
discover a
lost city ruled by an Egyptian Queen. For her amusement, Tarzan and a
Yeti are
forced to fight in the arena.
Finally the answer for all of the strange events is revealed when
natives on
and around escarpment are found drained of blood. A group of time
traveling
mutants from the future had crash landed in the present on the
escarpment.
Somehow the energies around the escarpment had affected their time
device.
Their attempts to leave had triggered dormant dimensional portals. The
mutants
were related to the Morlocks from a timeline where they had become
vampires as
well as cannibals.