Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786301008747 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 630100874X Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: April 01, 1992 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: March 30, 1984 Sales Rank: 21457
Amazon.com: One of those legendary missed opportunities, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a movie that should have been great but wound up the victim of conflicting egos and wrong-headed choices. Based on a screenplay by Robert Towne (who took his name off it when he wasn't allowed to direct) and directed by Hugh Hudson (riding high on the basis of Chariots of Fire), the film tried to rethink the Tarzan legend of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and boy, did it have to: By casting French-accented Christopher Lambert as Tarzan, the filmmakers had to transform his white-hunter mentor Ian Holm into a Frenchman to explain those inflections in Tarzan's monosyllabic speech. The film has some amazing jungle footage and a truly touching relationship between Tarzan and the apes--but it gets pretty silly when Tarzan gets to London and hooks up with Sir Ralph Richardson, as his grandfather. -–Marshall Fine
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Rating: - social commentary about how some people are as apes
Well, the overture at the beginning of the film is boring.
The photograph that appears does not look as beautiful as
some photographs you may have seen of the Carmanah Valley
in British ... Read More
Rating: - My Favorite Tarzan
I grew up with the Tarzan movies and TV show and read all the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels and this one, "Tarzan, the Legend of Greystoke" is my very favorite of all of them. The storyline and actors are all ... Read More
Rating: - LOOK OUT FOR THAT TREE!!!
I have been on a Tarzan kick ever since I bought my 70's cartoons I grew up with
TARZAN: HA-HA-HA N'KEEMA
Anyway I thought I'd tell ya about this little gem GREYSTOKE THE LEGEND OF TARZAN. ... Read More
Rating: - Greystoke, the Legend of Tarzan
I suppose one of the "themes" to this film, was that love has no limits, and anyone can be a father, or mother, but not anyone can be a Daddy and Mommy. And that family dosn't necessariy mean "blood," but means ... Read More
Rating: - Outstanding history
Wow, I was mesmerized with this movie - have seen it more than once, and my kids did too. Andie McDowell is wonderful anyway, then add the other great actors and the historical flavor - then the moral and ethical ... Read More
- social commentary about how some people are as apes
- My Favorite Tarzan