It isn't Tarzan who changes - he remains an amiable, dim-witted hunk, with improbably Brylcreemed hair and a vocabulary that seldom gets beyond his all-purpose exhortation, ''Ungawa!''- but rather Jane and Jane's attitude toward her primitive lover. The back-to-nature proto-hippies of the first two films become the model American homeowners who would populate the booming suburbs of the postwar years. But these lustful young lovers of the first two films soon evolve into a far more conventional middle-class couple, a transformation forced both by the strict censorship of the Production Code, adopted by Hollywood in 1934, and the return to materialist values that the early years of the Depression had profoundly discouraged. All six are now available in a handsome DVD boxed set from Warner Home Video, and watching them straight through tells a compelling story, though not necessarily the one presented by their maddeningly repetitive plots.īeneath the abbreviated jungle drag, here is an ideal American couple gradually growing up, discovering their bodies and the joys of sensuality in a back-lot jungle that still manages to evoke the innocence of Eden.
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There would be five more Weissmuller-O'Sullivan films before MGM terminated the series in 1942 (at which point Weissmuller took the franchise to RKO, continuing solo). IN 1932, Irving Thalberg cast the former Olympic swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and the willowy Irish beauty Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane in ''Tarzan the Ape Man,'' and one of Hollywood's most memorable screen couples was born.
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