Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed. The Greystoke relatives return to England, the Porters (Jane's family) goes to their ranch near San Francisco. Tarzan shows up in a tuxedo and rescues Jane from outlaws...

Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and Clayton (pretender to the Greystoke estate) from reaching Opar, he is attacked simultaneously by two lions, dropped into a pit when a volcano splits the ground, nearly sacrificed by sun worshipers, and so on.

Tarzan of the Apes (1918) is a silent film adaptation of the first novel in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan series. It tells the story of a young boy named Tarzan who is orphaned and raised by apes in the African jungle. As he grows up, Tarzan learns to survive in the wild and becomes the protector of the jungle.