All great stories start with a great myth, and the story behind the 1918 Louisiana-shot silent film "Tarzan of the Apes" has a whale of one. More precisely, there's a monkey of a myth behind it. And a ...

There are some characters in the canon who have been employed and adapted so many times that they seem to have taken on a life of their own outside of the stories artists tell about them. Sherlock ...

WITH The Legend of Tarzan, starring Alexander Skarsgard, opening on Thursday, it is 98 years since Elmo Lincoln brought Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle-boy orphan to life for silent movie audiences.

Weissmuller's last Tarzan film for MGM, "Tarzan's New York Adventure," released in 1942, is perhaps the best. Tarzan and Jane, accompanied by their faithful chimp Cheeta, fly to the metropolis to take ...

Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in his novel, Tarzan of the Apes, Tarzan is one of the most famous fictional characters of all time. Born to wealthy parents, Tarzan was raised in the African Jungle by ...

For a century now, Tarzan has been beating his chest, swinging on a vine, his mighty yell heard throughout an African jungle teeming with lost tribes and cave dwellers. His is the most famous chat-up ...

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“NO. THEY wouldn’t. They couldn’t. This is a terrible thing to do to a nice, Catholic, colored kid from West Baltimore.” That was the thought running through my mind June 6 when I read in my beloved ...