A shipping disaster in the nineteenth century stranded a man and woman in the African wilderness. The lady becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumbles across the house, killing both parents in the ensuing panic. A female ape adopts the tiny boy as a replacement for her own deceased infant and raises him as her son. Captain Phillippe D'Arnot finds the man who believes he is an ape twenty years later. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and he decides to return the man to civilization.
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A shipping disaster in the nineteenth century stranded a man and woman in the African wilderness. The lady becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumbles across the house, killing both parents in the ensuing panic. A female ape adopts the tiny boy as a replacement for her own deceased infant and raises him as her son. Captain Phillippe D'Arnot finds the man who believes he is an ape twenty years later. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and he decides to return the man to civilization.
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