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Having been brought up by a hermit and his lions after his father got
killed by Sheikh Youssef Ab-Dur (Ted Adams), El Lion (Jon Hall), by now a
young man, has made a name for himself as the avenger of the desert and
the benign guide and guardian of caravans traveling the desert. Young
princess Eulilah (Kathleen Burke) in the meantime has attracted the
attention of Youssef, but even against the will of her father Mohamund Bey
(Henry Hale), she refuses to marry him. And when she one day is saved by
El Lion from Youssef's henchmen who try to kidnap her, she falls in love
with him. El Lion falls for her too, but when he asks her father for her
hand in marriage, he bluntly refuses. From here, Youssef does everything
to discredit El Lion, he even goes so far as to drug him at some
festivities and then portray him as a useless drunk. Then Youssef again
asks Eulilah to marry him, and this time when she refuses, he just takes
her his captive, figuring El Lion, or rather the drunk he has made El Lion
to be, will be powerless to free her - but far from it, El Lion doesn't
only take apart Youssef's men almost sinlgle handedly, he also defeats
Youssef in a fistfight, and since Youssef has killed his father, he throws
him off a cliff to his death before finally getting the girl. Cheaply
made adventure movie that is often descrbed, and with some justification,
as Tarzan in the Desert. And in fact, this was quite possibly
nothing mroe than an attempt to jump onto the Tarzan-bandwagon
as it is: It is based on a book by Edgar Rice Burroughs, El Lion has some
striking similarities to Tarzan,
and the film features a swimming champ in the lead. Still, as a film, Lion
Man is less than accomplished: The low budget doesn't allow lavish
sets or scenery, little use is made of the lions that give the film's lead
his name and that are supposed to travel the desert with him - in fact,
apart from a cute cub, the lions are only shown in a few shots in a cave
in which they don't interact with any human characters -, and the
screenplay is just dead boring, featuring a way too long setup and then
lacking almost completely in the action and excitement department until
the very end, and even that is nothing more than a standard shootout. Not
a film worth your while.
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