Johnny Weissmüller Movies

A celebration of Hollywood in the 1930s, featuring a compilation of clips from features and newsreels of the era.

An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a...

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the...

Priestess Oma is forever young in this Jungle Jim knockoff of "She" or the La of Opar stories from "Tarzan". The Jungle Jim-type character is played...

A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe.

The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training...

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...

Nasty white hunters are testing out their germ warfare weapons using wild animals in Africa… until they run into Jungle Jim.

Bad guys trying to steal the mineral rights away from African natives find it isn't so easy fighting Jungle Jim.

A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.

Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day...

Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier...

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being...

Jungle-Jim type Johnny Weissmuller helps Professor Blakely look for a missing colleague who is now playing "god" for a bunch of natives.

In order to infiltrate a gang of drug smugglers, a cop is sent undercover to participate in a drag-queen beauty contest aboard a cruise ship.

Jungle Jim searches for a female Army captain who's gone missing.