Having tracked them, Rom and his mercenaries attack the tribe's camp and tie up John and Jane, killing the tribe's leader in the process. The trio encounters a tribe that knew John and Jane during their stay in the jungle.
John, Jane, and Williams take their trip to the Congo. Eventually, he reconsiders and allows her to go with him. Jane is disappointed when John tells her that she cannot come on the trip due to losing their baby years ago. However, Williams suspects that the Belgians are enslaving the Congolese population, and persuades him to accept it in order to prove his suspicions. An American envoy, George Washington Williams, urges John to go, as he knows that he is Tarzan. Through the British Prime Minister, he is invited by King Leopold to visit Boma and report on the development of the Congo by Belgium. A tribal leader, Chief Mbonga, offers him the diamonds in exchange for Tarzan.īy the time the film begins, John Clayton III has returned to England as "Lord Greystoke". An expedition led by him is ambushed and massacred, with only Rom surviving.
In response, King Leopold II of Belgium decides to extract the Congo's rich mineral deposits, sending his envoy Léon Rom to secure the fabled diamonds of Opar. The Belgian government is on the verge of bankruptcy, having gone into heavy debt to build a national railroad and other infrastructure. Tarzan kills him in retaliation, unaware that he was the son of a chief.Īs a result of the Berlin Conference, the Congo has been divided up between Belgium and the United Kingdom. Shortly after, Kala is killed by a young hunter who is part of another tribe. Later, he meets a woman, Jane Porter, and falls in love with her. Given the name Tarzan, he is raised by them and adapts well, becoming a part of the jungle as if he were made for it. The child is taken in by a family of Apes: his mother whom he calls Kala and his brother whom he calls Akut. His wife eventually dies of natural causes, and John is killed by Apes, leaving the baby alone. After being shipwrecked, John Clayton, his wife Alice, and newborn son John Clayton III are stranded in a tree house in the jungle of the African Congo.
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