Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes poster

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

19842h 23mAdventure · Drama · Action · Romance
directed by Hugh Hudson
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6.4 / 10
501 votes
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6.4 / 10
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62 / 100
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Synopsis

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.

Cast

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