Tarzan with the monkeys
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tarzan with the monkeys |
| Original title | Tarzan of the Apes |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1918 |
| length | 73 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Scott Sidney |
| script |
Fred Miller , Lois Weber |
| production | William Parsons |
| camera | Enrique Juan Vallejo |
| cut | Isadore Bernstein |
| occupation | |
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Tarzan at the Apes (original title: Tarzan of the Apes ) is an American adventure film by Scott Sidney from 1918. The basis for the script was the novel of the same name by Edgar Rice Burroughs . The film premiered on January 27, 1918. A 45-minute reconstructed version of the film fragments was broadcast on German television on April 13, 1970 on ZDF .
action
Lord and Lady Greystoke, sent on a diplomatic mission to South Africa by the British Queen, are abandoned on the African coast after a mutiny on their ship. The Lord builds a shelter in which the couple will live for some time. Lady Greystoke dies a year after her son was born. The Lord also dies when attacked by wild monkeys. A female monkey, whose offspring were also killed, takes care of the orphan boy .
The boy gets to know life in the jungle. When he turns 20, the monkeys recognize him as king. Meanwhile in England a cousin has inherited the Greystokes. However, he does not comply with his mother's wish to marry the attractive and well-off American Jane Porter. When the old seaman tells Binns about the mutiny on the ship, he also indicates that the rightful lord lives in the jungle. A search expedition, in which Jane and her father also participate, is then organized.
Several times the expedition can defy the dangers of the jungle. When the young Greystoke, who now calls himself Tarzan, saves Jane from the clutches of a native tribe and from a lion, she falls in love with him.
background
The first Tarzan film in film history was shot in California , Louisiana and Manaus , Brazil, among others . The film was very successful and grossed approximately one million US dollars in the United States.
Elmo Lincoln, discovered by David Wark Griffith , was not the first film Tarzan, however. Rather, this honor belongs to Gordon Griffith, who can be seen in front of him in the film, who portrays Tarzan in childhood. Gordon Griffith starred in two other Tarzan adventures: in the same year in The Romance of Tarzan (again as Tarzan as a boy and again with Elmo Lincoln) and in 1920 in The Son of Tarzan with P. Dempsey Tabler, this time, however, in the role of Tarzan's son Jack. Enid Markey also appears again in The Romance of Tarzan as Jane, as well as 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 can be seen here in an unmentioned minor role.
Reviews
“A remarkable document on the history of film,” says the lexicon of international film .
literature
- Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan of the Apes . English edition, Cosimo Classics, 2008, ISBN 1-60520-291-6 .
- Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan - The Original Novel . German paperback edition, dtv, 1999. ISBN 3-423-20312-9 .
Web links
- Tarzan of the Apes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Filming Locations on imdb.com , accessed on December 10, 2013.
- ↑ See Business on imdb.com , accessed December 10, 2013.
- ↑ Tarzan with the monkeys. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .