Daniel Potts and Eric Langlois were not the first boys to play a young Tarzan in his birthday suit (in "Greystoke, The Legend of Tarzan", 1984). Western societies were a lot less puritanical a century ago than they are now, as is revealed in the Biography of the profile I have just posted up for the great Gordon Griffith...

I'm trying to picture Gordon Griffith clambering about the jungle portraying Tarzan as a boy. In 1918 they wouldn't have stuck a loin cloth on him but as a boy would have appeared in such a situation, unlike today with all its prissy rules about kids and 'appropriate' dress. It's this sort of thing that spoilt the America version of 'Lord of the Flies'.

Thanks, 'diogenes' and 'Boymoviebuff'.

nightwatcher wrote on 26. Aug 2017 at 05:07:




Will check this one out, thanks!

I watched the film up until Elmo Lincoln took over as the man Tarzan. It was a novelty to see a nice looking boy actor from so long ago. Gordon Griffith was great in the altogether and I couldn't understand why such a boy would want ... clothes. Delightful Gordon ended up dressed in worse clobber than the boys who played the part in later years. All I can say is lucky old 'Binnsey'. Even the soundtrack had an old audio recording of an orchestra playing various classical pieces. 

New movie profile page set up for Tarzan of the Apes (1918):

nightwatcher wrote on 28. Aug 2017 at 17:54:

And it would be wonderful if that same orchestra performed the score for the movie, once in was publish as an audible version.