Richard Thorpe

Some of the initial pre-production screen tests and rehearsals were handled by director Norman Taurog in August of nineteen thirty-eight, a kind of studio audition.

So unimpressive were the results that another MGM director, Richard Thorpe, was assigned to take over when actual filming began.

Known for efficiency and speed, Thorpe raced through scenes quickly.

Two weeks elapsed before Mervyn LeRoy got a look at Thorpe's work, and he was not pleased.

But it's a 10-part or 10-chapter serial, and it came out in – August 20 and August 19, 1929.

I don't know why I keep wanting to say 2000, uh, for whatever reason, um, directed by Richard Thorpe.

But what I thought was really interesting is one of the cinematographers was Ernest Laszlo.

who I love because of a lot of the stuff he did with Stanley Kramer is, or some of my favorite films ever.

This is put together very well on that level.

So, yeah, I agree.

Now, Richard Thorpe, based on the success of this serial, was hired by MGM to do the Tarzan films.

So