Metro is putting a big push behind Tarzan's Fight for Life. The current Sol Lesser production has handsome color, capable acting and able direction. If the campaign is to be carried through, however, ...

Some 16 Tarzan films have ground through the hopper since National broke the ice in 1918 with Tarzan of the Apes. Sol Lesser, releasing through RKO, has turned out five of the jungle epics in the past ...

Julian “Bud” Lesser, 90, a television and film producer who was the son of famed “Tarzan” producer Sol Lesser, died Tuesday in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The younger Lesser produced “Massacre River” (1949) ...

Alexander Skarsgård, has a big loincloth to fill. The star of the new film “The Legend of Tarzan, ” is only the most recent of a slew of actors to swing from the trees with Jane. Along with the likes ...

In 1918, when the movies were young, silent and reasonably carefree, an actor named Elmo Lincoln donned a leopardskin, yodeled, and dove from a studio tree into a studio tank. Thus began a series of ...