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Although perhaps slightly anticlimactic, Tarzan's Triumph brings an end to a superior serial that has been lovingly preserved and is widely available today. Frank Merrill, later the parks director of Los Angeles, is perhaps no Johnny Weissmuller, but he did inaugurate Tarzan's famous cry of victory. Natalie Kingston makes the perfect Jane, her eyes constantly widening in terror, and Al Ferguson, who would appear in countless sound serials to come, is as nefarious as the screenwriters could have wished for. Produced during the transition to sound, Tarzan the Tiger is that dubious pleasure: a part-talking picture with sound effects. In fact, no one actually speaks, but Miss Kingston's screams, Merrill's "iahh!" and various grunts and groans from a host of jungle fauna are right there on the soundtrack. That the serial succeeds under these strenuous circumstances remains a victory of sorts.