MGM was once sued over the studio's decision to make an R-rated Tarzan movie. Here's why the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate didn't take kindly to MGM's plan.

The Legend of Tarzan, starring Alexander Skarsgard, opens in theaters today. It's only the latest in a very long line of depictions of Edgar Rice Burroughs' noble, gray-eyed savage in books, films, ...

As Tarzan's longtime companion, Jane Porter is no stranger to perilous animal encounters within the pages of Edgar Rice Burrough's popular novels or their many screen adaptations. But real life and ...

Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle Tarzan's Hidden Jungle is a stock entry in the Edgar Rice Burrough apeman marathon and serves to introduce a new title hero. Gordon Scott, succeeding Lex Barker who last played ...

To get some perspective on “Tarzan,” which premieres Sunday on the WB and relates the ape man’s adventures in the contemporary concrete jungle its natives call “Manhattan,” I watched “Tarzan’s New ...

Metro has remade its 1932 Johnny Weissmuller-Maureen O'Sullivan starrer, Tarzan the Ape Man and the story is even more implausible than it was 27 years earlier. Metro has remade its 1932 Johnny ...

Tarzan has been dusted off, his abs polished and his vocabulary spruced up in David Yates’ handsome but altogether pointless “The Legend of Tarzan,” a chest-thumping resurrection of the Ape Man that ...

It’s known as The Tarzan Yell. Film actor Johnny Weissmuller created it in the 1930s. Carol Burnett hilariously revived it on her 1970s variety show. No telling of the Tarzan story since would be ...

Ululating yell, echoing through the jungle. Check. Great apes. The finest CG simians megamillions can buy. Check ’em out. Loincloth. Nope. Pants. The Tarzan in “The Legend of Tarzan” is a civilized ...