Tarzan in Manhattan

10/10/2026

***Tarzan travels to The Big Apple to find Cheeta*** The first half is surprisingly great, as entertaining as any Tarzan flick you care to mention, just on a television movie budget. Burroughs’ character is transplanted to the 1980s, so expect some deviations from the 1914 novel. Joe Lara was the eighteenth actor overall to portray the Ape Man and would go on to play the part in the 1996-1997 TV series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures for 22 episodes. Petite brunette Kim Crosby is cute as Jane Porter, but she only dabbled in acting, so you’ll be hard pressed to see her in anything else. Tony Curtis welcomely shows up as Jane’s father; he was 63yo during shooting and still had his beaming charisma. Jan-Michael Vincent is also on hand as the villain. Unfortunately, the second half devolv