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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a 1984 adventure film directed by Hugh Hudson based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes (1912).
Mar 30, 1984 · Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes: Directed by Hugh Hudson. With Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, James Fox, Christopher Lambert. A missing heir of respected Scottish family, raised in African jungles by animals, finally returns to his estate only to realize that difference between the two worlds is really significant.
An infant raised to manhood among savage apes, living by his wits and the law of the jungle, returns to society to claim his inheritance of humanity and priv...
Synopsis. Scotland, 1885. The young John Clayton of the house of Greystoke ( Paul Geoffrey) plans a voyage to Africa, to one of the colonies near the coast, along with his pregnant wife, Alice ( Cheryl Campbell ). John bids farewell to his father, the Sixth Earl of Greystoke ( Ralph Richardson ).
Rediscovered by adventurers when he has grown to manhood, he is returned to the strange and unfamiliar world of the British aristocracy and discovers that, despite a doting grandfather and a...
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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.
This savagely beautiful and profoundly moving saga of a man caught between two very different worlds tells the story of Tarzan from his boy hood among the great apes of Africa to his return to Britain to take his place as part of the aristocracy.
The most intelligent and perhaps the best filmic treatment of Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic pulp novels about Tarzan, the white child of noble blood raised by apes in the jungle, since Elmo Lincoln first brought the character to the screen in 1918.
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a 1984 British adventure film directed by Hugh Hudson and based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes (1912).
Mar 29, 1984 · Hugh Hudson ( Chariots of Fire) directs this lavish adaption highlighting the legendary character's dual nature as master of the African jungle and as John Clayton, seventh Earl of Greystoke, heir to one of Scotland’s great estates.
