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TARZAN, THE APE MAN
May 8, 2018  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

TCM is devoting Tuesdays and Thursdays to movie series – and is starting with the Tarzan series. Six Tarzan movies are shown tonight, including the fan favorite Tarzan and His Mate from 1934 (at 10 p.m. ET). But the first entry, Tarzan, the Ape Man from 1932, is my favorite. Not only was it made only a handful of years after sound came to the movies, but it was filmed pre-Code – which means that when Johnny Weissmuller’s Ape Man is joined in the jungle by Maureen O’Sullivan’s Jane, the scenes between them are allowed to be more tropically steamy than in the sequels. And the vine-swinging is fun, too…

 
 
 
 
 
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