Introduced Johnny Sheffield as "Boy"

TARZAN FINDS A SON (1939)
Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan), Maureen O'Sullivan (Jane Parker), Johnny Sheffield (Boy), Ian Hunter (Mr. Austin Lancing), Henry Stephenson (Sir Thomas Lancing), Frieda Inescort (Mrs. Lancing), Henry Wilcoxon (Mr. 'Sandee' Sande), Laraine Day (Mrs. Richard Lancing), Morton Lowry (Mr. Richard Lancing), Jiggs (Cheeta the monkey).

Directed by Richard Thorpe; Screenplay by Cyril Hume based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs; Produced by Sam Zimbalist; Original music: William Axt ; Cinematography: Leonard Smith; Film Edited by Gene Ruggiero and Frank Sullivan; Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons; Assistant director: Dolph Zimmer; Sound department: Douglas Shearer; Stunts: Paul Stader and Harry Monty.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Release date: June 16, 1939
Running time: 82 Minutes
Filmed in Black and White

      A plane flying to Cape Town carrying a young couple and their baby, crashes in the jungle. Everyone on the plane dies, except for the baby who is rescued by Cheeta, Tarzan's chimpanzee. Tarzan and Jane adopt the child and name him "Boy". Five years later, a search party comes looking for Boy, because he is the heir to a fortune worth millions. Jane tries to help the search party and Boy go back to civilization, against Tarzan's wishes.

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