Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan Lord of the Apes (1984)
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 130m
Director: Hugh Hudson
Cast: Christophe Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ian Holm, Ralph Richardson, James Fox
Synopsis:
The true story of how the heir to the Greystoke estate is shipwrecked with his parents, only to be raised by apes and eventually transported back to England to be reintroduced to civilization.
Review:
Not true at all, of course, but for some reason we all thought that this Tarzan film would be different to the others. Which, in a sense, it is because of its practice of employing unprecedentedly expressive ape makeup for the actors portraying the boy's adoptive troop. Indeed, the African scenes, many of which were created in the studio, are impressive feats of production design and execution, although in the end the apes are required to bear too much of the weight that the less expressive new star ought rightly to carry, unbalancing the film.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 130m
Director: Hugh Hudson
Cast: Christophe Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ian Holm, Ralph Richardson, James Fox
Synopsis:
The true story of how the heir to the Greystoke estate is shipwrecked with his parents, only to be raised by apes and eventually transported back to England to be reintroduced to civilization.
Review:
Not true at all, of course, but for some reason we all thought that this Tarzan film would be different to the others. Which, in a sense, it is because of its practice of employing unprecedentedly expressive ape makeup for the actors portraying the boy's adoptive troop. Indeed, the African scenes, many of which were created in the studio, are impressive feats of production design and execution, although in the end the apes are required to bear too much of the weight that the less expressive new star ought rightly to carry, unbalancing the film.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 130m
Director: Hugh Hudson
Cast: Christophe Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ian Holm, Ralph Richardson, James Fox
Synopsis:
The true story of how the heir to the Greystoke estate is shipwrecked with his parents, only to be raised by apes and eventually transported back to England to be reintroduced to civilization.
Review:
Not true at all, of course, but for some reason we all thought that this Tarzan film would be different to the others. Which, in a sense, it is because of its practice of employing unprecedentedly expressive ape makeup for the actors portraying the boy's adoptive troop. Indeed, the African scenes, many of which were created in the studio, are impressive feats of production design and execution, although in the end the apes are required to bear too much of the weight that the less expressive new star ought rightly to carry, unbalancing the film.