Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film)

• Johnny Weissmuller: Tarzan
• Neil Hamilton: Harry Holt
• Maureen O'Sullivan: Jane Parker
• C. Aubrey Smith: James Parker
• Doris Lloyd: Mrs. Cutten
• Forrester Harvey: Beamish
• Ivory Williams: Riano

Tarzan, the Ape Man is an American feature film from the year 1932. It is based on the novel Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Alternative Title: Tarzan, the ruler of the jungle.

Action

James Parker is a big-game hunter. He pulls through Africa in search of the great, legendary graveyard of the elephants. His daughter Jane accompanied him with her fiance Harry Holt. The expedition is disturbed by a white ape-man. Tarzan lives in the jungle with monkeys since childhood. He kidnapped the pretty Jane in his jungle home high in the trees. The girl is afraid at first, but then finds confidence in Tarzan. She notes that he does not speak a word of English, and teaches him the first words I Tarzan, You Jane. Tarzan finally brings Jane to father and fiancé back, but Jane remains preoccupied with thoughts of Tarzan. When Jane is kidnapped with her father and Harry Holt of pygmies, Tarzan comes to the rescue. With his elephants he freed the English. Jane, who has fallen in love with Tarzan, opts for a life with Tarzan in the wilderness far from civilization.

Background

Tarzan, the Ape Man is the first Tarzan movie of Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer and the first Tarzan movie with the swimming Olympic champion Johnny Weissmuller in the title role. In 1922, he had swum the first human to 100 meters in under a minute. However, there had previously been several Tarzan movies. Weissmuller but should play the role until the end of the 1940s, but the series ran with other actors such as Lex Barker until the 1970s into it. However, the films were to be assigned by this time the B- movie.

Weissmuller were placed on the page with just the star ascended Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton and veteran character actor C. Aubrey viewed the Smith three well-known actors. The film was produced for erund $ 600,000 and has excellent 2.5 million U.S. dollars worldwide import at the box office.

In the film for the first time had been listening to the famous monkeys scream Tarzan. Famous in the German-speaking area is also the sentence: Me Tarzan, You Jane, Johnny Weissmuller but has never said so in the original. The original dialog shows an even lower ability to speak and reads:

• Jane: " Jane. "
• Tarzan: " Jane. "
• Jane: " And you You? "
• Tarzan: "Tarzan Tarzan! "
• Jane: "Tarzan. "
• Tarzan: ". .. Jane Tarzan Tarzan Jane. "

Reviews

"Thanks to the visionary and imaginative designs, the movie is better than all the later films of the genre ," was the lexicon of international film.