Tarzan and the She-Devil

This was Lex Barker's fifth and final appearance as Tarzan. He spent much of the rest of his film career making movies in Europe, where his having played Tarzan (and his marriage to Lana Turner) had made him a household name.

Monique van Vooren, who plays Lyra (the "She Devil" of the film's title) appears here as a brunette, though she spent most of her film career as a blonde. It is unclear if it was because of problems with recording equipment, or van Vooren's obvious lack of acting talent, but almost every line she speaks in this film has clearly had to be looped.

At the time he made this film, Raymond Burr's career was on the ascent. The following year, he played the villain Thorwald in Hitchcock's Rear Window, and starred in the English language material shot for the U.S. release of Godzilla. In 1958, he was cast as his best-remembered character, the title role in the long-running CBS series Perry Mason.

Normally quite hairy-chested, Barker was forced to submit to a full body wax in order to play the buffed version of Tarzan demanded by the producers. It was not until he abandoned the Tarzan role and went to Europe to film that his fans were finally allowed to see him as nature intended, with his chest hair intact.

If Tom Conway reminds you of George Sanders, it's because Sanders was Conway's younger brother. Conway's screen credits include 10 films in the B-movie Falcon franchise and recording the narration for Walt Disney's animated 1953 version of Peter Pan.