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- Tarzan, the Ape Man
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- (April 4, 1932)
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- Tarzan, the Ape Man is frankly and gorgeously spurious. It was
- not made in Africa with benefit of publicity and palaver, but
- on the home grounds of Hollywood, where the apes, crocodiles,
- lions, tigers, dwarfs, elephants and gorillas are better
- acquainted with their histrionic duties and can discharge them
- more effectively. Almost as effective as the animals is Tarzan
- Weissmuller. His ability as a swimmer has never led him into
- jungles. The wildest animal he ever knew hitherto was the
- comparatively tame and toothless alligator which used sometimes
- to be allowed to splash comically in the Roney-Plaza Hotel's
- luxurious swimming pool in Miami, where Weissmuller was swimming
- instructor. Nevertheless he acquits himself creditably. His
- spare frame is not too skinny for the role; he swims faster than
- Miss O'Sullivan can run and his thick-featured face is what one
- would expect in a foster brother of wild beasts. He wrestles
- bravely with animals, stuffed or otherwise, and rides a
- hippopotamus as though it were a Shetland pony. Best of all is
- his first appearance -- swooping through the trees in huge quick
- parabolas on a succession of trapezes made of ropy vines and
- branches.
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