by David Krell | Apr 6, 2013 | David Krell
Tarzan inspired film studios to invent their versions of a jungle hero. The results range from hysterical to sober. In 1973, Disney mined Tarzan for laughs in The World’s Greatest Athlete, a benign film set on the fictional Merrivale College campus. Faced with...
by David Krell | Apr 4, 2013 | David Krell
Tarzan benefited from the superhero craze of the mid-1960s ignited by the 1966 launch of the camp television show Batman. On September 8, 1966, Ron Ely debuted as the title character in Tarzan. Jane did not appear on the show. It lasted two seasons. Twenty-five...
