Tarzan, the Ape Man on AllMovie

The original and definitive Tarzan sound movie -- following several silent films on the same subject -- stuck fairly closely to the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Olympic swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller was cast by MGM as the European boy who was raised by gorillas in the jungle after he and his parents were shipwrecked and his parents died. Three ivory hunters lead an expedition into the jungle hoping to find the Elephant's Graveyard. They are James Parker (C. Aubrey Smith), his daughter Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan), and her boyfriend Harry Holt (Neil Hamilton). They lose one of their servants crossing the rugged mountains, and eventually, they are ambushed by the ape man. Tarzan is heard with his lusty yell, then jumps out of the treetops and snatches away Jane. He releases her, then she saves him from the retaliation of her father and Harry. Soon she is in love with Tarzan, swinging with him through the trees and teaching him English in the famous "Me Tarzan, you Jane" exchange. This Hollywood classic set the stage for innumerable sequels and remakes and an eventual television series.