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

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    In 1886 a shipwreck strands Lady Alice Clayton (Cheryl Campbell) and Lord Jack Clayton (Paul Geoffrey) – a British couple of noble lineage from the Greystoke family –  in the wilds of Africa, where her ladyship gives birth to a boy. After the death of his parents, the child is raised by apes.

    With the help of zoologist Dr Roger Fouts, director Hugh Hudson filmed the apes so effectively that they don’t even need subtitles. For a fascinating 20 minutes or so, they play and fight and convey absorbing lessons in the politics of primate behaviour.

    Admittedly, Hudson cheats just a little by giving the key ape roles to human actors and acrobats dressed in such convincing monkey suits that the disclosure of these impersonations during the closing credits came as a bit of a shock.

    greystoke_3Twenty years later, the young man, now known as ‘Tarzan’, rescues a wounded Belgian explorer, Phillippe D’Arnot (Ian Holm) and nurses him back to health.

    D’Arnot resolves to take Tarzan back to civilisation and restore him to his rightful place on the Greystoke estate as Lord John Clayton.

    Tarzan is reunited with civilisation as the aristocratic heir to his grandfather, the Earl of Greystoke (Ralph Richardson in endearingly eccentric form in his last film role).

    Christopher Lambert excels as the feral interloper, awkwardly coming to terms with a new society with its own fair share of barbarism while romancing his grandfather’s American ward, Jane, played by then-newcomer Andie McDowell.

    The script explains away his rapid mastery of English by making him a natural mimic able to duplicate instantly and accurately any sound he hears and Lambert’s performance takes this as its starting point, becoming a wonderfully inventive mixture of animal and human mannerisms.

    This $33 million epic retelling of the Edgar Rice Burroughs legend is visually lush with some fine acting (including Glenn Close’s dubbing of MacDowell’s voice).

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    Tarzan (Lord John Clayton)
    Christopher Lambert
    Earl of Greystoke
    Ralph Richardson
    Captain Phillippe D’Arnot
    Ian Holm
    Lord Esker
    James Fox
    Jane Porter
    Andie MacDowell
    Glenn Close (voice)
    Lady Alice Clayton
    Cheryl Campbell
    Lord Jack Clayton
    Paul Geoffrey
    Sir Evelyn Blount
    John Wells
    Major Jack Downing
    Nigel Davenport
    Jeffson Brown
    Ian Charleson
    Sir Hugh Belcher
    Nicholas Farrell
    Captain Billings
    Richard Griffiths
    Buller
    David Suchet

    Director
    Hugh Hudson

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