Tarzan and the Trappers (1958)

Directed by Charles F. Haas and Sandy Howard
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)

The series regresses into juvenile nonsense in this episodic entry. Cheeta makes a return big time, with the usual anthropomorphic hi jinks. There is more than the usual allotment of stock footage. In the first story, trappers come to the jungle, but when they capture Cheeta and Boy, Tarzan calls on his elephant friends to rescue them. In the next story, a big game hunter goes after the ultimate trophy: Tarzan himself. The trail leads to a crumbling lost city with forgotten treasure. The Warner DVD makes a fatal mistake in trimming the full-frame picture to faux widescreen, these were made-for-TV and the misframing is quite obvious at times.