TARZAN THE APE MAN
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
This first movie in the Tarzan series, starring Johnny Weissmuller as the Ape Man hero of the Edgar Rice Burroughs stories, was released in 1932. That was just before the censorious Hollywood Production Code slapped filmmakers with very conservative rules – and because this Tarzan movie is pre-Code, it affords its audience a look at Maureen O’Sullivan, as Tarzan’s civilized jungle companion Jane, that only one other pre-Code film in the series would permit.