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Release Date: 1932

Cast: Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Weissmuller, E. E. Clive, Doris Lloyd, Neil Hamilton, John Buckler, Herbert Mundin, Aubrey Smith

Categories: Movies, Black-And-White, Action, Pre-Code, Adventure

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. The film is loosely based on Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes, with the dialogue written by Ivor Novello. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke. It was remade in 1959 and in 1981 the same title but a different adaptation of Rice Burroughs' novel was used as the basis of a film. James Parker (C. Aubrey Smith) and Harry Holt (Neil Hamilton), in Africa on a quest for the... MORE

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. The film is loosely based on Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes, with the dialogue written by Ivor Novello. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke. It was remade in 1959 and in 1981 the same title but a different adaptation of Rice Burroughs' novel was used as the basis of a film. James Parker (C. Aubrey Smith) and Harry Holt (Neil Hamilton), in Africa on a quest for the legendary elephant burial grounds (and their ivory), are joined by Parker's daughter Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan). Holt, attracted to her, tries somewhat ineffectively to protect her from the jungle's dangers, notably failing to prevent her abduction by the jungle's guardian, the mysterious Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller) and his ape allies. The experience is terrifying to Jane, at first, but as their relationship develops, she finds herself happy: "Not a bit afraid, not a bit sorry". As she returns to her father, her feelings are brought to a test. She wants Tarzan to come with her to London, to be part of LESS