FILE - Johnny Weissmuller competes in an international swimming tournament at the Tamagawa pool on the outskirts of Tokyo, Nov. 1928. ... played by Maureen O’Sullivan, ...

Metro has remade its 1932 Johnny Weissmuller-Maureen O'Sullivan starrer, Tarzan the Ape Man and the story is even more implausible than it was 27 years earlier.

In Tarzan and His Mate, second of the Metro series with Johnny Weissmuller, the monkeys do everything but bake cakes and the very human elephants always seem on the verge of sitting down for a ...

FILE - Johnny Weissmuller competes in an international swimming tournament at the Tamagawa pool on the outskirts of Tokyo, Nov. 1928. ... played by Maureen O’Sullivan, ...

FILE - Johnny Weissmuller competes in an international swimming tournament at the Tamagawa pool on the outskirts of Tokyo, Nov. 1928. ... played by Maureen O’Sullivan, ...

This of course was Johnny Weissmuller, who played Tarzan in the films but was also a swimming superstar 100 years ago. He won three gold medals at the 1924 Paris Olympics: the 100-meter freestyle ...

FILE - Johnny Weissmuller competes in an international swimming tournament at the Tamagawa pool on the outskirts of Tokyo, Nov. 1928. ... played by Maureen O’Sullivan, ...

FILE - Johnny Weissmuller competes in an international swimming tournament at the Tamagawa pool on the outskirts of Tokyo, Nov. 1928. ... played by Maureen O’Sullivan, ...

FILE - Johnny Weissmuller competes in an international swimming tournament at the Tamagawa pool on the outskirts of Tokyo, Nov. 1928. ... played by Maureen O’Sullivan, ...

Johnny Weissmuller competes in an international swimming tournament at the Tamagawa pool on the outskirts of Tokyo, ... Tarzan’s love interest was Jane Parker, played by Maureen O’Sullivan, ...

Before there was Michael Phelps or Mark Spitz winning multiple Olympic gold medals in swimming for the United States — there was Tarzan.