Tarzan the Ape Man

Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) is available to watch online on iFILM — MGM's adventure film directed by W.S. Van Dyke, the first sound adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' character, with Johnny Weissmüller in the title role.

Hunter James Parker leads a party into Africa in search of a legendary elephant graveyard. His daughter Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) joins the expedition and encounters Tarzan — a man raised by apes who knows nothing of civilization and operates entirely on instinct. Jane is terrified. Then she is not.

Weissmüller played the role twelve more times, but this original set the template: the yell, the swing, the wildness. Stream Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) online on iFILM.