Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)

Tarzan the Ape Man is a 1932 pre-Code, American action adventure film featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan and starring Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith and Maureen O'Sullivan.

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The original and definitive Tarzan sound movie -- following several silent films on the same subject -- stuck fairly closely to the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Olympic swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller was cast by MGM as the European boy who was raised by gorillas in the jungle after he and his parents were shipwrecked and his parents died. Three ivory hunters lead an expedition into the jungle hoping to find the Elephant's Graveyard. They are James Parker (C. Aubrey Smith), his daughter Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan), and her boyfriend Harry Holt (Neil Hamilton). They lose one of their servants crossing the rugged mountains, and eventually, they are ambushed by the ape man. Tarzan is heard with his lusty yell, then jumps out of the treetops and snatches away Jane. He releases her, then she saves him from the retaliation of her father and Harry. Soon she is in love with Tarzan, swinging with him through the trees and teaching him English in the famous

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Tarzan the Ape Man is a 1932 film about a trader and his daughter who set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes.

Directed by W.S. Van Dyke. With Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith, Maureen O'Sullivan. A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes.