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30/03/1984 Adventure, Drama 2h 23m
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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.

  1. Hugh Hudson

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Christopher Lambert

    John Clayton / Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

  2. Andie MacDowell

    Miss Jane Porter

  3. Ralph Richardson

    The Sixth Earl of Greystoke

  4. Ian Holm

    Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot

  5. James Fox

    Lord Charles Esker

  6. Cheryl Campbell

    Lady Alice Clayton

  7. Ian Charleson

    Jeffson Brown

  8. Nigel Davenport

    Major Jack Downing

  9. Nicholas Farrell

    Sir Hugh Belcher

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2015-05-04
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 som...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$45,858,563.00

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