Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)

Directed by

W. S. Van Dyke

Genre

drama film, action film, adventure film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 228 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An English woman named Jane travels to Africa to meet her father. She encounters a wild man raised by apes named Tarzan who protects her from jungle dangers.

old-fashionedadventurousromanticlightheartedenergeticexoticfast-paced

What happens

Tarzan the Ape Man is a 1932 pre-Code American action adventure film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan and starring Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith and Maureen O'Sullivan. It was Weissmuller's first of 12 Tarzan films. O'Sullivan played Jane in six features between 1932 and 1942. The film is loosely based on Burroughs' 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes, with the dialogue written by Ivor Novello. The film was directed by W.S. Van Dyke. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released two remakes of Tarzan, the Ape Man in 1959 and in 1981, but each was a different adaptation of Rice Burroughs' novel. It is also the first appearance of Tarzan's famous yell. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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