{"id":15761,"date":"2016-07-09T04:30:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15761"},"modified":"2016-07-03T16:15:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T20:15:30","slug":"tarzan-of-the-movies-ranking-the-lord-of-the-jungles-greatest-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15761","title":{"rendered":"Tarzan of the Movies: Ranking the Lord of the Jungle&#8217;s Greatest Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z070916rafkayanan_rankingtarzan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><strong>Tarzan<\/strong> by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RafaelKayanan?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><strong>Rafael Kayanan<\/strong><\/a><\/pre>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Tarzan<\/strong> has appeared in more than sixty films played by over twenty actors since making his first appearance on the big screen. \u00a0When I think of <strong>Tarzan<\/strong>, the first actor that comes to my mind is\u00a0<strong>Johnny Weissmuller<\/strong>. \u00a0Of course I grew up watching<strong> Weissmuller Tarzan<\/strong> movies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the years, I&#8217;ve seen and enjoyed many other <strong>Tarzan<\/strong> portrayals including those by <strong>Lex Barker,\u00a0Gordon Scott,\u00a0Denny Miller,\u00a0Jock Mahoney,\u00a0Mike Henry,\u00a0Ron Ely,\u00a0Miles O&#8217;Keefe<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Christopher Lambert<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When I think of <strong>Tarzan<\/strong> movies, again, it is the <strong>Weissmuller<\/strong> ones that come to mind. Other versions remind me of <em><strong>Hercules of the Jungle<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Tarzan<\/strong> <strong>as<\/strong> <strong>James Bond<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Tarzan has to be here so we can justify Bo Derek as Jane<\/strong><\/em>, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Tarzan<\/strong> expert <strong>Ron Marz<\/strong> selects his favorite <strong>Tarzan<\/strong> flicks in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/article\/ron-marz-ranks-greatest-tarzan-movies-ever-made\/view=all\"><strong>Tarzan of the Movies: Ranking the Lord of the Jungle&#8217;s Greatest Films<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tarzan by Rafael Kayanan Tarzan has appeared in more than sixty films played by over twenty actors since making his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,56,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-comics","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15763,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15761\/revisions\/15763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}