Tarzan
of the Apes: Tarzan No. 1
Edgar Rice Burroughs
First published in 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs's romance has lost little
of its force over the years--as film revivals and TV series well attest.
Tarzan of the Apes is very much a product of its age: replete with bloodthirsty
natives and a bulky, swooning American Negress, and haunted by what zoo
specialists now call charismatic megafauna (great beasts snarling, roaring,
and stalking, most of whom would be out of place in a real African jungle).
Burroughs countervails such incorrectness, however, with some rather unattractive
representations of white civilization--mutinous, murderous sailors, effete
aristos, self-involved academics, and hard-hearted cowards. At Tarzan's
heart rightly lies the resourceful and hunky title character, a man increasingly
torn between the civil and the savage, for whom cutlery will never be less
than a nightmare.
The passages in which the nut-brown boy teaches himself to read and
write are masterly and among the book's improbable, imaginative best. How
tempting it is to adopt the ten-year-old's term for letters--"little bugs"!
And the older Tarzan's realization that civilized "men were indeed more
foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle," while not exactly
a new notion, is nonetheless potent. The first in Burroughs's serial is
most enjoyable in its resounding oddities of word and thought, including
the unforgettable "When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled;
and smiles are the foundation of beauty." Amazon.com
Mass Market Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75
x 6.85 x 4.23
Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reissue edition (August
1993)
ISBN: 034531977X
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(1999) DVD
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and His Mate (1934) VHS
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Escapes (1936) VHS
Starring: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan
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Finds a Son (1939) VHS
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the Tiger (1929) VHS Special Order
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Greystoke:
Legend of Tarzan: Lord of the Apes VHS
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell
One of those legendary missed opportunities, Greystoke: The Legend
of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a movie that should have been great but
wound up the victim of conflicting egos and wrong-headed choices. Based
on a screenplay by Robert Towne (who took his name off it when he wasn't
allowed to direct) and directed by Hugh Hudson (riding high on the basis
of Chariots of Fire), the film tried to rethink the Tarzan legend of Edgar
Rice Burroughs, and boy, did it have to: By casting French-accented Christopher
Lambert as Tarzan, the filmmakers had to transform his white-hunter mentor
Ian Holm into a Frenchman to explain those inflections in Tarzan's monosyllabic
speech. The film has some amazing jungle footage and a truly touching relationship
between Tarzan and the apes--but it gets pretty silly when Tarzan gets
to London and hooks up with Sir Ralph Richardson, as his grandfather. –Marshall
Fine - Amazon.com
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the Ape Man (1981) VHS
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(1999) VHS
Tarzan
(1999) - Dubbed in Spanish VHS
Tarzan's
New York Adventure (1942) VHS
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