Tarzan of the Apes
film by Sidney [1918]
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. Burroughs’s novel was greatly condensed for this version, leaving the latter part of the book for a sequel (The Romance of Tarzan [1918]). In the film, Lord and Lady Greystoke are stranded on the coast of Africa after their ship has been hijacked by mutineers. Upon their deaths, their young son is raised by apes, allowing him to become the legendary ...(100 of 205 words)