Three years later, respect was restored in the well-received Greystoke The Legend Of Tarzan Lord Of The Apes and later even in Disney’s animated take which eventually turned into a Broadway musical version. Through the years, many different ripped actors have tried to top him - although oddly Bo Derek made one of the biggest splashes with her Jane in the awful 1981 Tarzan The Ape Man, which basically turned the whole tale into a soft porn movie. But as I say in my video review above, none was more iconic than former Olympic swim champ Weissmuller. In terms of cinema, beginning with Johnny Weissmuller’s immortal interpretation of the tree-swinging man brought up by apes in the jungles, there have been countless actors who have taken on the role. Certainly one of the most enduring characters in all of literature and definitely movies is Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan.
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