WITH The Legend of Tarzan, starring Alexander Skarsgard, opening on Thursday, it is 98 years since Elmo Lincoln brought Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle-boy orphan to life for silent movie audiences.
There are some characters in the canon who have been employed and adapted so many times that they seem to have taken on a life of their own outside of the stories artists tell about them. Sherlock ...
Weissmuller's last Tarzan film for MGM, "Tarzan's New York Adventure," released in 1942, is perhaps the best. Tarzan and Jane, accompanied by their faithful chimp Cheeta, fly to the metropolis to take ...
The cinematic history of the Lord of the Apes is littered with the banana peels that tripped up many pretenders to the throne of the jungle. By one semi-official count, the new Disney version is the ...
“NO. THEY wouldn’t. They couldn’t. This is a terrible thing to do to a nice, Catholic, colored kid from West Baltimore.” That was the thought running through my mind June 6 when I read in my beloved ...
Austin Allison is an Animation Feature Writer for Collider. He is also an illustator, avid cartoon watcher, and occasional singer. His karaoke favorites include singing Rainbow Connection as Kermit ...
June 23, 1963: Enchanted Tiki Room opens to the public in Disneyland. It’s the first Disney attraction to use audio-animatronics. June 23, 1999: Tarzan’s Treehouse opens in Adventureland. The ...