Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film)
- Elmo Lincoln: Tarzan
- Gordon Griffith: Tarzan as a boy
- Enid Markey: Jane Porter
- True Boardman: Lord Greystoke
- Kathleen Kirkham: Lady Greystoke
- George B. French: Binns
- Colin Kenny: Cousin
- Thomas Jefferson: Prof. Porter
Tarzan of the Apes (Original Title: Tarzan of the Apes) is an American adventure film directed by Scott Sidney, staged in 1917, was the basis for the screenplay on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. . Premiered the movie on 27 January 1918. German television a 45-minute restored version of the film fragments was on 13 April 1970 at the ZDF broadcast.
Action
Lord and Lady Greystoke who were sent by the Queen on a diplomatic mission to South Africa will be exposed after a mutiny on their ship on the African coast. The Lord builds a hut, in which the pair some time living. A year after her son was born, died Lady Greystoke. Even the Lord dies when he is attacked by wild monkeys. A female monkey whose offspring was also killed, the orphan boy accepts.
The boy learns life in the jungle know. When he is 20, he is recognized by the monkey king. In England, meanwhile, a cousin has taken up the legacy of Grey Stokes. However, the desire of the mother to marry the attractive and well-off American Jane Porter, he does not comply. When told the old sailor Binns of the mutiny on the ship, he also suggests that the rightful Lord lives in the jungle. Upon doing a search expedition, which was also Jane and her father attend organized.
Several times, the expedition brave the dangers of the jungle. When the young Greystoke, who now calls himself Tarzan, Jane rescues from the clutches of a native tribe and from a lion, she falls in love with him.
Reviews
" A remarkable film- historical document. "
Background
It was shot the first Tarzan film in history not only in California. Locations have included Louisiana and Manaus in Brazil. The film was very successful and played in the United States about one million U.S. dollars.
Elmo Lincoln, David Wark Griffith discovered, however, is not the first movie Tarzan. That honor belongs rather to be seen in the film before him Gordon Griffith, representing the Tarzan in childhood. Gordon Griffith played in two further adventures with Tarzan, the same year in The Romance of Tarzan ( again as Tarzan as a boy, back on the side of Elmo Lincoln), and 1920 in The Son of Tarzan on the side of P. Dempsey Tabler this time in the role of Tarzan's son Jack. Also Enid Markey occurs again in The Romance of Tarzan as Jane to do the same True Boardman as Lord Greystoke, Kathleen Kirkham as Lady Greystoke, George B. French as Binns, Thomas Jefferson as Jane's father and Colin Kenney as Tarzan's cousin
Rex Ingram is seen here in a small role unmentioned.