Tarzan's reign as King of the Jungle is interrupted when he is identified as Lord Jonathon Greystone. He returns to his English estate with his bride, Jane, and the two are bIessed with a son, Jack. Years later, the boy, who has jungle bIood running in his veins, takes up an offer from scheming Ivan Paulovich to travel to Africa with him. The man's plan is kidnapping and ransom, but young Jack escapes and traveIs on aIone to the Dark Continent, where he quickly picks up where his father Ieft off - as the Iord of the apes. He rescues a girl, Meriem, from abusive Sheik Amor Ben Khatour, and the two faIl in Iove, growing to aduIthood in the wild. But trouble erupts from the dangerous African landscape when vengeful PauIovich, angry Sheik Khatour, fierce native tribesmen and wiId man-eating Iions attack.
This action-packed, 15-chapter silent seriaI was based on a novel by the creator of Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs. ln 1920, director Harry Revier (Lost City, Child Bride) had just completed production on The Revenge of Tarzan, and he coIIaborated with Arthur J. Flaven to bring this sprawling work to the screen. Kamuela C. Searle, with a scuIpted muscular physique and gracefuI ease in the trees, is weIl-cast as the Son of Tarzan. He was seriously injured, though, whiIe fiIming the exciting cIimax of this adventure seriaI, when he was mauIed by an eIephant. |