The Adventures of Tarzan

Dec 1, 1921

2h 30m

★ 5.9

FIFTEEN ELECTRIFYING EPISODES!

Overview

Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and Clayton (pretender to the Greystoke estate) from reaching Opar, he is attacked simultaneously by two lions, dropped into a pit when a volcano splits the ground, nearly sacrificed by sun worshipers, and so on.

Genres

Adventure

Action

Production Companies

Great Western Productions

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Cast

Tarzan

Elmo Lincoln

Jane

Louise Lorraine

Clayton

Scott Pembroke

Rokoff

Frank Whitson

Monsieur Gernot

Zip Monberg

Queen La of Opar

Lillian Worth

Sheik Ben Ali

Charles Gay

Prof. Porter

Charles Inslee

Chief of Wazini

Charles Inslee

Fifi R. Lachoy

Arab Guard

Frank Merrill

Man in Ape Suit

Joe Martin

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