davjazzer
Johnny Weissmuller's physique was incredible in this film. The 41 year old Weissmuller had trained and worked out his body to it's best since the MGM days. His pecs are huge and his abs nicely cut and defined. RKO obviously noticed as they cut his loincloth down to it's scimpiest in years. Johnny's newfound athletic prowess found him getting into more physical scenes such as wrestling Tongolo, fighting the leopard men and being heavily scarred by their claws and being tied to a post with his awesome body on display to the luscious Lea (Acquanetta). Equally lovely is Brenda Joyce as Jane. The scene where Lea confronts Tarzan with her claw is very erotic and chilling. Tarzan has never faced such evil torture before in a film. Johnny is up for the challenge,however with his spectacular torso. Easily the best of the RKO Tarzans.
bkoganbing
People in America were kept in ignorance about Africa due to films like Tarzan And The Leopard Women. Even taken at face value the film shows the decline in the series since it left MGM.When Acquanetta says how her leopard god cult has kept secret from Tarzan all these years no one in any theater this was showing could possibly believe that. After all this was Tarzan and in his jungle you don't belch or toot without him knowing about it. How a whole tribe of leopard cultists kept secret from Tarzan until Edgar Barrier came back from civilization as he sneers it no one could buy into that.Barrier's character is borrowed liberally from that other RKO classic Gunga Din. He's the guru of the tribe and he does not want to see the civilization of the whites spread. Especially when its in the form of some shapely maiden school teachers. He's going to have his leopard guys hijack the caravan and steal the teachers. It falls to Tarzan to rescue them. By the way note how Barrier sneers also at the decadence of democracies which the British were as represented by Commissioner Dennis Hoey. A lot of that talk was coming from some recently defeated enemies of said British and their allies. Made Barrier an easy guy to hate.Acquanetta has a young brother played by Tommy Cook and he's looking to become a full blooded warrior. Only he gets a little thing for Brenda Joyce as Jane. For the only time in the series history Johnny Sheffield as Boy gets an adversary his equal. He needs a little help from Cheta in taking him out.In fact in this most silly of Tarzan films, Cheta gets to save everybody from the Leopard people. If you care you have to see the film to see how everyone's favorite chimpanzee does it in one of the worst of the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films.
BA_Harrison
Local authorities are positive that leopards are responsible for a series of fatal attacks on caravans travelling the jungle route from Zambesi, but Tarzan remains unconvinced. The ape man is right, of course: the real culprits are fanatical members of a leopard cult, led by beautiful high priestess Lea (the gorgeous Acquanetta) and native doctor Ameer Lazar (Edgar Barrier), who are angry at civilisation for exploiting their resources and encroaching on their domain. Meanwhile, Lea's younger brother Kimba (Tommy Cook), who is desperate to earn warrior status by presenting his tribe with a human heart, tricks his way into the Tarzan household and sets his murderous sights on Jane (Brenda Joyce)...After a few not particularly impressive movies, its great to see the Weissmuller Tarzan series back on form at last with possibly the ape man's most satisfying adventure since Tarzan and His Mate: not only do we get an enjoyably silly premise, impossibly wicked villains, and an exciting finale, but we also see leopard men performing daft dance routines, Cheetah playing a flute and charming a rubber snake, Tarzan grappling with hairy wrestler Tongolo the Terrible (played by professional wrestler 'King Kong' Kashey), four pretty teachers almost eaten by crocodiles, and an exciting chase scene in which Tarzan prepares deadly booby traps for his pursuers.A hugely entertaining slice of escapist jungle fun, I rate Tarzan and the Leopard Woman 7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.
ccthemovieman-1
This was a little strange to view at first because I had never seen a Johnny Weismuller-Tarzan film of the 1940s. I was only familiar with the earlier stuff with Weismuller and Maureen O'Sullivan as "Jane." By the mid '40s when this was made (and others), Brenda Joyce had replace O'Sullivan. A blonde-haired "Jane" looked strange to me. Their son, "Boy," still played by Johnny Sheffield, was another shock of sorts. He now was a teenager with muscles and a changing voice. That didn't look or sound right! Tarzan himself had become a regular English-speaking person, even though he still lived in the jungle. He came into town and everyone knew him and talked to him as if he was one of them. It was just all too strange.Meanwhile, "the leopard woman" (Acquanetta) wasn't as mysterious as she was billed nor was she much of an actress, just a pretty face. She didn't have that big a role, anyway.All in all, not a video worth keeping.
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