| Genre: | Action Adventure |
| Starring: | Joe Lara Kim Crosby Tony Curtis Jan-Michael Vincent |
| Director: | Michael Schultz |
| Executive Producer: | Max A. Keller Micheline H. Keller |
| Producer: | Charles Hairston Max A. Keller Micheline H. Keller |
| Location: | New York City Hawaii The Burbank Studios |
| Music: | Charles Fox |
| Cinematography: | Laszlo George |
| Editor: | Dann Cahn |
| Company: | American First Run Studios |
| Network: | CBS |
| Runtime: | 94 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Tarzan in Manhattan is a 1989 action adventure CBS television film.[1] Joe Lara portrays Tarzan, and Kim Crosby appears as Jane Porter. Tony Curtis and Jan-Michael Vincent co-star. The telefilm was produced by Max A. Keller, Micheline H. Keller and Gina Scheerer, written by Anna Sandor and William Gough (based on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs), and directed by Michael Schultz. It aired on April 15, 1989.
Tarzan leaves Africa and goes to present-day New York City to seek vengeance for the murder of his Ape mother Kala, and to rescue a chimp, Cheeta who had been taken by hunters working for B. B. Brightmore and his Brightmore Foundation. Soon Tarzan discovers this supposed philanthropic organization is conducting illegal tests on animal brains in an effort to transfer the thoughts and knowledge of one creature to another, and he sets out to rescue the animals and expose Brightmore. He is aided by Jane Porter (a cab driver) and her father, Archimedes "Archie" Porter, a retired police officer, now the head of his own security agency.
With Brightmore's operations shut down, Jane joins her father's security agency, and both talk Tarzan into coming on board at minimum wage, but with all the bananas Cheeta can eat.
Joe Lara also later starred in , an otherwise unrelated interpretation of the character.
Warren Zevon's Leave My Monkey Alone plays on the soundtrack as Tarzan's plane flies over prominent New York landmarks. Also, Grace Jones's Pull Up to the Bumper plays on the soundtrack in Jane's taxicab.