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 ...

Tarzan will be swinging across the silver screen once again when "The Legend of Tarzan" hits theaters on July 1. The film is the latest entry in the King of Apes' decades-long legacy on television and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Johnny Weissmuller was really famous. He was so famous, he was pictured on the album cover of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” right behind and between Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.