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Tarzan of the Apes is a 1918 American action/adventure silent film directed by Scott Sidney starring Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, George B. French and Gordon Griffith. It was the first Tarzan film ever made and is based on Edgar Rice Burroughs ' original 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes .
Tarzan of the Apes: Directed by Scott Sidney. With Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, True Boardman, Kathleen Kirkham. Reared by a childless ape, the orphaned heir of the Greystokes becomes one of the apes. Then Dr Porter organises a rescue expedition, and his beautiful daughter Jane catches his attention.
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- Action, Adventure
- Scott Sidney
- 1918-01-27
Tarzan of the Apes is a 1918 American action/adventure silent film directed by Scott Sidney starring Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, George B. French and Gordon...
- 61 min
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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.
- 60 min
John and Alice Clayton take ship for Africa. Mutineers maroon them. After his parents die the newborn Tarzan is taken by a great Ape, Kala. Later the boy finds his father's knife and uses it to become King of Apes. Binns, the sailor who saved the Claytons and...
- Scott Sidney, Charles Watt
- Elmo Lincoln
Tarzan of the Apes, American silent film, released in 1918, that was the first of many screen adaptations of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s legendary adventure novel Tarzan of the Apes (1912), about a young orphan raised to maturity by apes.
Tarzan of the Apes is a 1912 novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the first in the Tarzan series. The story was first printed in the pulp magazine The All-Story in October 1912 before being released as a novel in June 1914. [1]
