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Starring: Christopher Lambert,  Andie MacDowell,  Ralph Richardson,  Ian Holm,  James Fox, 
Directed By: Hugh Hudson, 
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Release Date: 1984-03-30
Studio: Warner Home Video
Format: Anamorphic,  Closed-captioned,  Color,  Dolby,  DVD,  Subtitled,  Widescreen,  NTSC, 

Editorial Reviews and DVD Information about Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan

Description
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 privilege. This collision of "wild" and "civilized" worlds is the extraordinary saga of Tarzan, chronicled in Edgar Rice Burroughs' popular book series. Starring: Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ian Holm

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

Customer Reviews for Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan

Lambert's Tarzan - A Classic
This version of the story of Tarzan should please every Tarzan fan. The actors are wonderful, the scenery and photography superb and the attention to detail with regards to how primates act is magnificent.Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan

Razor...mirror...
These are the first two words that John Clayton (Lambert) learns from the severely injured Capitaine D'Arnot (Holm) and both echo the worlds he finds himself; first in the jungle and then in England, each of these two worlds reflecting a merciless and dangerous nature. His loss of family: his ape mother and the banishment of his ape father, then coming to grips with his humanness, his life in England, society's inhumanity and again experiencing loss of family at the death of his grandfather gradually shapes his understanding. For me what is most telling is Tarzan's encounter of the slaughtered and stuffed apes at the Darwinism museum along with finding imprisoned there his Ape father who cared for him and then in releasing him to see how "Civilization" treats this creature he knew and loved. I wish here Lambert would have been given more English lines than resorting to animal mimicry to express his anger to Sir Evelyn (Wells) as it would seem more logical to express his frustration in a tongue that society would have understood and how that society is not much different and perhaps even more jungle-like than the real jungle. I would have loved to have seen a sequel with Lambert and MacDowell living part of the time at their jungle estate and part of the time at Greystoke Manor, along with son Jack who would eventually call himself Korak, but perhaps the film was better left as a single entry into the Tarzan saga.Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan

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Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan
Enjoyed every rendition of the story of Tarzan. Greystoke is beautifully filmed and very well acted, most enjoyable. Have seen it many times, still fresh as the first time. Excellent for every audience.Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan