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Tarzan Several generations of movie buffs
have regarded Johnny Weissmuller as the
definitive Tarzan, though Edgar Rice Bur-
roughs' jungle king has been portrayed by
numerous others since 1918, when beefy
Elmo Lincoln first swung onto the screen.
There were other silent-film versions of
the Tarzan tale, but the next film to make a
major impact was the early talkie TARZAN,
THE APE MAN (1932), which starred
Olympic swimming hero Weissmuller.
Though it wasn't particularly faithful to
Burroughs' book, it was an entertaining,
well-made film that captured the imagination
of a Depression-era audience, and led
to a string of equally entertaining sequels.
Buffs generally cite TARZAN AND HIS
MATE (1934) as the best of all. This and
the other 1930s entries in this series were
"class" films with fine production values,
plenty of action, and strong supporting
casts, led, of course, by lovely Maureen
O'Sullivan as Jane. (The success of these
films inspired other producers to try and
cash in with their own Tarzan projects,
most of which were second-rate endeavors,
though they all starred good-looking
men who, like Weissmuller, had been
Olympic medal winners: Buster Crabbe,
Herman Brix, and Glenn Morris.) The
later MGM outings such as TARZAN'S
NEW YORK ADVENTURE became more
contrived, like other series films, with
often-excessive comedy relief supplied by
Cheeta the chimp, and family interest
sparked by the arrival of Johnny Sheffield
as Boy. When MGM lost interest in the
series, Weissmuller continued making
Tarzan movies for producer Sol Lesser at
RKO, without O'Sullivan and without that

1107B. TARZAN
OF THE APES.(S)(BW) (1918)
Tarzan of the Apes (1918) 55m. **½ D:
Scott Sidney, Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey,
True Boardman, Kathleen Kirkham, Gordon Griffith. The very first Tarzan film is
a surprisingly watchable and straightforward telling of the Greystoke tale, though
Lincoln looks like he's about fifty years
old, with a beer belly to boot.▼

TARZAN'S NEW ADVENTURE.(BW)(1935)
w/Herman Brix (Bruce Bennett)
TARZAN & THE GREEN GODDESS.
w/Herman Brix (Bruce Bennett and
Ula Holt. (BW) (1938)
TARZAN & THE SLAVE GIRL (1950)
w/Lex Bker, Vanessa Brown, Robt.
Alda, Hurd Hatfield & Denise Darcel
TARZAN & THE SHE DEVIL. (1953)
w/Lex Barker, Raymond Burr, Joyce
MacKenzie & Tom Conway.
TARZAN'S HIDDEN JUNGLE. (1955)
w/Gordon Scott, Vera Miles, Peter
Van Eyck, Jack Elam & Rex Ingram.
(Concl. on end of next tape)

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MGM production sheen. Lex Barker took
over the role in 1949, and the series became progressively more routine; Barker
did his last jungle outing in 1955. Since
then a number of people have played
Tarzan, including Denny Miller (who
starred in a 1959 remake of Weissmuller's
1932 film, filled with tinted stock footage
from the original), Jock Mahoney (who
also played supporting roles in two other
Tarzan films), Mike Henry, and Gordon
Scott, the latter faring best in some well-
produced British-made adventure stories
(including TARZAN'S GREATEST ADVENTURE, an excellent jungle tale shot in
color, with young Sean Connery in the
cast). Ron Ely took on the role for a
Mexican-filmed TV series, and some of
these episodes have been strung together
into ersatz feature films. But the most recent theatrical ventures involving Tarzan
have all been unusual: an unappealing animated spoof called SHAME OF THE JUNGLE featuring the voice of Johnny Weissmuller, Jr.; a live-action farce called TARZAN, THE APE MAN designed as a showcase for sexy Bo Derek; a television update, with tongue in cheek, called TARZAN IN MANHATTAN; and the most ambitious of them all, GREYSTOKE: THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, LORD OF THE APES, which purported to return to Edgar Rice Burroughs' original concept but (for all its dramatic success) deviated from the source in its own way. Compared to a film like GREYSTOKE, the old series films might look simplistic and even quaint—but they're unpretentious and certainly entertaining. And faithful or not, Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan may still represent the indelible image in most people's minds of Burroughs' legendary jungle character.

TARZAN
Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932)
Tarzan the Fearless (1933)
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
New Adventures of Tarzan (1935)
Tarzan Escapes (1936)
Tarzan's Revenge (1938)
Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938)
Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)
Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
Tarzan Triumphs (1943)
Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)
Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)
Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)
Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949)
Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950)
Tarzan's Peril (1951)
Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)
Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953)
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1955)
Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
Tarzan and the Trappers (1958)
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959)
Tarzan the Magnificent (1960)
Tarzan Goes to India (1962)
Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963)
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966)
Tarzan and the Great River (1967)
Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968)
Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion (1970)
Tarzan's Deadly Silence (1970)
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
Tarzan in Manhattan (1989)

1107c. TARZAN IN MANHATTAN. 4/15/89
w/Joe Lara, Tony Curtis, Kim Crosby, Jan-Michael Vincent, Joe Seneca.
TARZAN, THE APE MAN. (CZ) (1932)
w/Johnny Weissmuller (Debut), Neil Hamilton and Maureen O'Sullivan.
TARZAN'S REVENGE. (BW) (1938)
w/Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holm, Hedda Hopper & George Meeker.
BIOGRAPHY: TARZAN: THE LEGACY OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGH. 5/6/97
TARZAN'S HIDDEN JUNGLE. (1955)
(Concluded from 1107b)