The serial was produced by David P. Howells, written by Roy Somerville (based on the 1915 novel The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs), and directed by Arthur J. Flaven and Harry Revier.

He sneaks away to see a trained ape called Ajax (in reality, Akut, an old friend from Tarzan's youth).

Korak rescues Meriem, a young French girl held captive by Arab slave traders and they grow to adulthood in the jungle.

However, following a change in President to Harry M. Rubey, National Film Corporation paid Burroughs $20,000 for the screen rights to his novel The Son of Tarzan.

[1] National Film Corporation was unable to cast either of the previous Tarzan actors, Elmo Lincoln or Gene Pollar.

It is to be no mad jumble of blood and thunder, nor a series of unrelated incidents intended to be mystifying, but will be a consistently constructed dramatic production.

"[1] On April 3, 1920, Rubey announced that cowboy actor Jack Hoxie would play the lead as Tarzan's son, Korak.

Harry Revier was hired as the director and the filming would take place on an island in the South Pacific.

This left the serial without a star again until Revier cast Hawaiian actor Kamuela C. Searle, who had played an important part in Cecil B. DeMille's Male and Female, as Korak.

[1] As the audience may not have been aware of the background to the Tarzan story, Revier arranged a pictorial prologue to acquaint them with the basics.

While filming the fifteenth chapter an accident occurred on set involving Searle and the elephant playing Tantor.

[1][4] Further injury occurred when Tabler broke several ribs in a fight scene with Eugene Burr (playing Ivan Paulovich).

However, the Motion Picture Magazine said "Even tho' good entertainment, The Son of Tarzan could have been much improved with name actors.