
Feature film — 1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
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.
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A high-signal pick with 518 votes.
Edgar Rice Burroughs / Warner Bros. Pictures / WEA Records
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Director: Hugh Hudson
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Cast & crew

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
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