The only obstacle with signing him onto the role was his contract to model BVD underwear. The professional swimmer had five gold medals in the 19 Olympics, alongside 67 world and 52 national titles. MGM finally found who they were looking for when they came across decorated Olympian Weissmuller.

Angelo Rossitto as Evil Dwarf (uncredited).

Jane decides to stay in the jungle with Tarzan and in the final scene, to the music of Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, the happy couple appear on a rock, Jane holding Cheeta like a baby.

During the rescue, Tarzan summons elephants and they escape from the dwarfs' stronghold, although Jane's father dies from wounds just as they reach the elephant graveyard. Jane sends Tarzan's chimpanzee friend Cheeta ( Jiggs) for help, bringing Tarzan to their rescue. The expedition is captured by a tribe of aggressive dwarfs. Her father tells her that is where Tarzan belongs she cries, 'no, Dad, he belongs to me.' But Tarzan turns his back on her and returns to the jungle. She wants Tarzan to come with her to London, and to be part of her world. As she returns to her father, her feelings are brought to a test. The experience is terrifying to Jane at first, but as their relationship develops, she finds herself happy 'not a bit afraid, not a bit sorry'. The mysterious Tarzan wards off the attack, but abducts Jane. The expedition encounters an attack by both hippopotami and crocodiles. Holt is attracted to Jane, and tries somewhat ineffectively to protect her from the jungle's dangers. They are joined by Parker's daughter Jane. James Parker and Harry Holt travel in Africa on a quest for the legendary elephant burial grounds and their ivory.

It is also the first appearance of Tarzan's famous yell. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released two remakes of Tarzan, the Ape Man in 1959 and in 1981, but each was a different adaptation of Rice Burroughs' novel. The film is loosely based on Burroughs' 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes, with the dialogue written by Ivor Novello. O'Sullivan played Jane in six features between 19. It was Weissmuller's first of 12 Tarzan films. Tarzan the Ape Man is a 1932 pre-Code American action adventure film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan and starring Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C.

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