"Tarzan of the Apes" debuted on January 27th, 1918 at New York's Broadway Theater. In bringing the epic to the screen the film's producer promised "the largest and finest specimens of apes to be found ... not two or three lions, but a herd of twenty or thirty ... hyenas, wild boar, leopards, antelope, and all the other numerous fauna of Central Africa will appear." To give viewers the sense that they were in the depths of the African jungle the film makers trekked off to the wilds of ... Morgan City, Louisiana. And even though the film didn't include everything the producer promised, "Tarzan of the Apes" was still a hit, being one of the first films in history to gross over a million dollars.