With the success of their 1999 animated feature Tarzan, it’s no surprise that Disney brought the Ape Man to television as part of its One Saturday Morning lineup, but what was a little surprising was how good it was.
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Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle: The Filmation Cartoon Series
We’ve seen countless adaptations of Tarzan ranging from the monosyllabic Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan The Ape Man to the recent and more verbose Alexander Skarsgård in The Legend of Tarzan, but rarely have these “adaptations” done more than just borrow the origin story and then make up their own adventures.
Tarzan the Magnificent: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Tarzan the Magnificent is actually two stories originally published separately; Tarzan and the Magic Men was published as a three-part serial in the pages of Argosy Weekly in 1936 while Tarzan and the Elephant Men was a three-part serial published in the pages of Blue Book between the years 1937 and 1938.
The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak (1984) – Review
When you watch Raiders of the Lost Ark one thing is clearly missing, and that would be gratuitous nudity and bondage, which was an oversight that director Just Jaeckin sought to correct with his film Gwendoline (later re-titled The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak), and by using a character created by…
Hook’s Revenge by Heidi Schulz: Book Review
Do you like pirates? Does the thought of having a swashbuckling adventure on the high seas appeal to you? 12-year-old Jocelyn Hook certainly feels that way, though she has a huge advantage over the rest of us when it comes to achieving that goal being she is the daughter of the infamous Captain Hook.