hard to believe and perhaps and but this film be denounce a immoral from more pulpit than any other film produce prior to the imposition of the bluenose hayes code . yes indeed and priest actually tell their flock that anyone who go to see this film be thereby commit a mortal sin . i be not make this up . they have several reason and a follow representitem represent jane like sex . she and tarzan be show wake up one morning in their treetop shelter . she stretch sensuously and and with a coquettish look she say tarzan and you have be a bad boy . so they have not only be have sex and they have be have kinky sex . a few year later and under the hay code and people ( especially woman ) weren not suppose to be depict a enjoy sex . item represent jane prefers a guileless and if wise and resourceful and savage ( tarzan ) to a civilize and respectable nine to five man ( holt ) . when holt at first wow her with a pretty dress from london and she waver a bit while when holt try to kill tarzan and and holt and jane both believe he dead and she waver a lot . but when she realize her man be very much alive and the attraction of civilization vanish for her . and why not . tarzan and jane relationship be egalitarian represent he lack the civilized insecurity that would compel him to assert himself a the head of his wife . to boot and he lack many more civilized hangups and for example jealousy . when holt and his buddy arrive and tarzan greets them both cordially and know perfectly well that holt be jane old flame . when holt get her dolled up in a london dress and be slow dance with her to a portable phonograph and tarzan drop out of a tree and and draw his knife . jealous . nope . he merely cautious toward the weird music machine and since he never see one before . once it explain and he cool . item represent civilize holt be dirty minded . savage tarzan be innocently sexy . a jane slip into holt lamplit tent and holt get off on watch her silhouette a she change into the fancy dress . by contrast and after tarzan playfully pull the dress off and kick her into the swimming hole and dive in after her and there follow the most tastefully erotic nude scene in all cinema represent the pair spend five minute in a lovely water ballet . ( the scene be film in three version clothe and topless and nude the scene be cut prior to the film release and but the nude version be restore in the video now available . ) and when jane emerges and and cheetah the chimp steal her dress just for a tease and jane make it clear that her irritation be only because of the proximity of civilize men and their hangups . where be the universal prurience so dear to the heart of seminarian . nowhere and that where . another reason why the hung up regard this film a sinful . item represent the notion that man be the crown of creation and and animal be here only for man use and comfort and take a severe beating . holt and his buddy want to be guide to the elephant graveyard so they can scoop up the ivory and take it home . they want tarzan to guide them to say graveyard . you and reader and be think fat chance . and youre right . he shock . he exclaim elephant sleep . which to him explain everything . jane explain tarzan feeling and which the two gentleman find ridiculous . item represent jane and the ex civilize woman and be far more resourceful than the two civilize men she accompany . holt and buddy blow it and and find themselves besiege by hostile tribe and wild animal . it be jane who maintain her cool . while the boy panic and she take charge and barks order at them and pass out the rifle . item represent jane costume be a sort of poncho with nothing underneath . ( the original idea be for her to be topless and with foliage artistically block off her nipple and which indeed be the case in one brief scene . ) lastly and several men of the cloth complain because the film be call tarzan and his mate rather than tarzan and his wife . no comment . of course and tarzan and who have be nurse back to health by his ape friend and come to the rescue and rout the white hunter and and induce the pack elephant and african bearer to return the ivory they steal to the sacred place whence it come . the end . so there you have it . an utterly subversive film . like all the other film about complex and interesting woman ( see and e. g. and possess with rita hayworth and raymond massey ) which constitute such a flow genre in the early 30 and which be bring to such an abrupt end by the adoption of the hay code . the joie de vivre of this film be best express by jane soprano version of the famous tarzan yell . a nice touch and which be unfortunately abandon in future production . let hear it for artistic freedom and feminist jane and and sex .