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Release Date:
27 January 1918 (USA) more
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With an unusually brilliant cast including...[list of cast members]...and 500 others more
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The plot follows the novel more closely than does any other Tarzan movie. John and Alice Clayton take ship for Africa... more | add synopsis
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Not quite Tarzan, the scholar, found in the novels. more (9 total)

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Runtime:
73 min
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National Film Corporation, the production company, hired eight acrobats to play apes, for which costumes made from goat skins and elaborate masks were constructed. more
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Featured in "Fractured Flickers: (#1.1)" (1963) more

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Not quite Tarzan, the scholar, found in the novels., 3 May 2000
7/10
Author: Miller Movies (miller-movies@prodigy.net) from Jacksonville, Florida

At this early point in American film history, Tarzan of the Apes was an instant success. Elmo Lincoln was perhaps the best actor at the time for the role. It's a fairly straight forward telling of the novel, tho Edgar Rice Burroughs was frequently on the set in an advisory role and his input was seldom utilized. In the books, Tarzan was quite the self-made scholar and this was barely touched upon in the film. For 1918, this turned out to be an excellent film, parts of which still hold up today. It's a solid 7 out of 10, and well worth seeing.

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