screenshots / Medicine Man / 1992 Hollywood Pictures

The film stars Sean Connery (Tarzan's Greatest Adventure, Zardoz) as a eccentric researcher in the Amazonian Rainforest and co-stars Lorraine Bracco as a biochemist.

Actor José Lavat (appearing as a Government Man) later provided voice talent as Kerchak for the Spanish dubbed version of Disney's 1999 animated Tarzan.

Director John McTiernan previously worked with Sean Connery on the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October.

Mexico filming locations included Catemaco, Veracruz and Sierra Madre del Sur de Chiapas.