In this Disney animated tale, the orphaned Tarzan (Tony Goldwyn) grows up in the remote African wilderness, raised by the gentle gorilla Kala (Glenn Close). When a British expedition enters the jungle ...

In “ape-speak,” the name Tarzan means “white skin.” Which tells you a great deal about Edgar Rice Burroughs’ famous jungle tales. “White skin” refers to the fact that, in the original Burroughs novels ...

Boasting a marvelous underwater sequence for the pudgy orphan boy and thrillingly kinetic vine-swinging passages for the muscled adolescent, “Tarzan” ranks as one of the best of the modern Disney ...

The King of the Jungle is also king of the movie box office. Walt Disney’s new “Tarzan,” the first animated version of the jungle classic, soared past “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me” over the ...

A little more than year ago, a descendant of author Edgar Rice Burroughs sent Richard Cook, chairman of the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, a copy of a letter Burroughs had written to his son in ...