![]() ![]() ![]() With ticket sales exceeding $1 million at the domestic box office in its initial release, Tarzan of the Apes ranks among the top ten most successful films of the silent era. Directed by Scott Sidney, the movie starred Elmo Lincoln as the loincloth-wearing, vine-swinging, orphan-turned-action-hero, with the Atchafalaya Basin swamps substituting for the African jungle. In fact, Tarzan was the first feature in the United States filmed outside of New York or California. Tarzan of the Apes, the screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s action novel published in 1912, was filmed in 1917 in Morgan City, making it the first feature-length motion picture shot on location in Louisiana. Tarzan of the Apes "Tarzan of the Apes" was filmed in 1917 in Morgan City, making it the first feature-length motion picture shot on location in Louisiana. ![]()
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