Tarzan and the Green Goddess is a 1938 English-language Action Adventure motion picture written by Edwin Blum, Bennett Cohen, Basil Dickey, Charles F. Royal and Edgar Rice Burroughs. The movie is directed by Edward Kull and Wilbur F. Mcgaugh and produced by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ashton Dearholt and George W. Stout. At his English manor, Lord Greystoke - aka Tarzan - recounts his recent adventures in Guatemala. He had been there assisting Major Martling and Ula Vale in their quest for the Green Goddess, a totem worshipped by a primitive jungle tribe inside of which was hidden a formula for a super-explosive. They had successfully wrestled this totem from the natives and were heading back to Livingston when they were attacked by Raglan, a thug sent to steal the Green Goddess and its formula for Hiram Powers' personal use, and the Goddess is seized from them. On the trail of Raglan, they had to deal with his henchmen and also a party of the primitives, sent by the High Priest to retrieve the Goddess. With the Goddess still in Raglan's hands, they were seized by the natives and Tarzan locked in a small cell with a loosely-tethered lion, Ula in an adjacent cell under guard from a hideous jungle hag, and Martling being forced to watch his bumbling valet, George, being tortured by the natives with the assistance of a nameless expatriate white scientist who had joined forces with the primitives.. Written by Rich Wannen. Tarzan and the green goddess stars Herman Brix, Ula Holt, Ashton Dearholt, Frank Baker, Lewis Sargent, Bruce Bennett and Merrill Mccormick. The music was composed by Mischa Bakaleinikoff. Cinematography was done by Edward A. Kull and Ernest F. Smith and editing by Harold Minter, Thomas Neff, Edward Schroeder and Walter Thompson. The movie has a running time of 257 minutes. It was released on 15th June 1937. Distribution rights for the film were acquired by Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises Inc.