Tarzan of the Apes (1918)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Elmo Lincoln	...	Tarzan
	Enid Markey	...	Jane Porter
	True Boardman	...	John Clayton, Lord Greystoke
	Kathleen Kirkham	...	Alice Clayton, Lady Greystoke
	George B. French	...	Binns, a sailor
	Gordon Griffith	...	Tarzan, younger
	Colin Kenny	...	Greystoke's nephew
	Thomas Jefferson	...	Professor Porter
	Bessie Toner	...	Bar Maid
	Jack Wilson	...	Captain of the Fuwalda
	Louis Morrison	...	Innkeeper
	Eugene Pallette
	Fred L. Wilson

Storyline

The plot follows the novel more closely than does any other Tarzan movie. John and Alice Clayton take ship for Africa. Mutineers maroon them. After his parents die the newborn Tarzan is taken by a great Ape, Kala. Later the boy finds his father's knife and uses it to become King of Apes. Binns, the sailor who saved the Claytons and who has been held by Arab slavers for ten years, finds the young Tarzan and then heads for England to notify his kin. A scientist arrives to check out Binns' story. Tarzan, now a man, kills the native who killed Kala; when their chief is killed the black villagers appease Tarzan with gifts and prayers. The scientist's daughter Jane is carried off by a native, rescued by Tarzan (who has burnt the native village), aggressively loved by him ("Tarzan is a man, and men do not force the love of women"), and at last accepts him with open arms. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>  

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