Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
(1984)
Overview
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
Director
Hugh Hudson
Writers
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael Austin, Robert Towne
Top Billed
Christopher Lambert
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Reviews
John Chard
⭐ 7/10May 4, 2015
John, John, John of the jungle.
Upon release mixed notices greeted this attempt to get to the crux of Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle man creation, The Lord of the Apes, Tarzan. It's a bold movie in many ways, one of those occasions when a fondly thought of character from days of yore is given the serious make - over treatment. Which as film history tells us is often very tricky.
Plot trajectory has a lost child of the British aristocracy rear…
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
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Revenue
$45,858,563