Tarzan

[ASBOB]

I grew up with the Tarzan movies, with Johnny Weissmuller and his successors. One of the staple scenes was that he would take out a croc or other river creature with a knife.

Anybody know what kind of knife he used?

 

[Raymond1000]

Check this out. http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/918425-Tarzan-s-Knife?highlight=Tarzan

 

[Muaddib1116]

Some interesting comments in that thread. I think they kept focusing on an incorrect idea though, which is that the knife was something hand picked by Lord Greystoke. As I recall, Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned on the African coast by mutineers, and are supplied with equipment from the ship's stores. So, they probably had some of their personal belongings, such as their clothing and the children's books that Tarzan later teaches himself to read with, but I would think that any survival equipment, such as the pistols, rifles, axes, knives, etc. that they had were not personal items chosen by Tarzan's father. It's been a long time since I've read the book though, so I might be very wrong.

 

[shunsui]

There's some info on Gordon Scott's Tarzan movie knife here:

http://www.erbzine.com/mag17/1718.html

and here's a nice shot from Tarzan and His Mate (1934). The knife shows up in a lot of photos.

http://torontofilmsociety.org/files/2013/11/Tarzan-and-His-Mate2.jpg