Robert Douglas, Joanna Barnes, and Denny Miller in Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959)

Tarzan, the Ape Man

Movie#2651203211959G1h 22m
ActionAdventureRomance
3.8 / 10(448)

An English colonel's daughter meets the lord of the jungle who makes her his mate.

Rated
G
Runtime
1h 22m
Released
1959
Country
United States

Details

Release year: 1959

Storyline

An English colonel's daughter meets the lord of the jungle who makes her his mate.

Top credits

Cast
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Did you know

Directly steals story points, footage, and sound from 1950's King Solomon's Mines.

The musical score for this film, by noted jazz musician Shorty Rogers, often bears no relation to what is seen on screen, and gives the impression someone has brought a wind-up phonograph on the safari and is merely playing a random jazz recording from their personal collection.

As with most Tarzan movies, it is never explained how characters maintain perfectly quaffed hair and clean-shaven faces in the midst of a jungle that is labeled "uncharted territory" on a map as the film begins.

Box Office

Gross (Domestic): $1,438,800

User reviews

4/10

Cheap and cheerful Tarzan film. Savaged by the critics... but it has a certain innocence, not to mention some unintended hilarity.

👍 24 · 11/5/2006
4/10

downhill slide

👍 4 · 9/14/2021

Technical specs

Sound mix
Mono
Aspect ratio
1.85 : 1
Color
Color
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