Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes poster

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes( 1984)

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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.

Top Billed Cast

Christopher Lambert
John Clayton / Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Andie MacDowell
Miss Jane Porter
Ralph Richardson
The Sixth Earl of Greystoke
Ian Holm
Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
James Fox
Lord Charles Esker
Cheryl Campbell
Lady Alice Clayton
Ian Charleson
Jeffson Brown
Nigel Davenport
Major Jack Downing
Nicholas Farrell
Sir Hugh Belcher
Richard Griffiths
Captain Billings
Paul Geoffrey
Lord John Clayton
Hilton McRae
Willy
David Suchet
Buller
Ravinder
Dean
John Wells
Sir Evelyn Blount
Paul Brooke
Rev Stimson
Tristram Jellinek
Chalky White
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Olivestone
Eric Langlois
Tarzan aged 12
Danny Potts
Tarzan Aged 5
Peter Kyriakou
Tarzan aged 1
Tali McGregor
Infant Tarzan
Peter Elliott
Silverbeard, Primate Father
Ailsa Berk
Kala, Primate Mother
John Alexander
White Eyes, Primate Leader
Christopher Beck
Droopy Ears, Tarzan's Childhood Friend
Mak Wilson
Figs, Tarzan's Follower
Deep Roy
Primate
Kiran Shah
Primate
Philip Tan
Primate
Tina Maskell
Primate
David Forman
Primate
Martin Pallot
Primate
Douglas Mann
Primate
George Antoni
Primate
Harriet Thorpe
Iris (uncredited)
Barrie Holland
Scottish Laird (uncredited)

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Mon May 04 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 reared by apes in the African jungle after his parents were shipwrecked there. Feral but wonderfully skilled with it, the child becomes a feral man of some...