Greystoke: Legend of Tarzan: Lord of the Apes [VHS]
by Hugh Hudson
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Actor: Andie MacDowell, Christopher Lambert, Ian Holm, James Fox, Ralph RichardsonDirector: Hugh Hudson
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Letterboxed, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Running Time: 136 minutes
Release Date: 1997-10-14
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Greystoke: Legend of Tarzan: Lord of the Apes [VHS]
Movie Review: Greystoke Tarzan
Summary: 1 Stars
This may be a wonderful movie for those who find this topic interesting. I bought it for a gift and my friend requested it and loves it. So the rating reflects my interest not who it was intended for.Movie Review: Tarzan lover a must
Summary: 5 Stars
When I was 12 my first grown up novel was TArzan = then I read all of Greystoke books( his Mars series are very good also. I love how Lambert protrayed Tarzan- Movie Review: great film
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is worth if for the atmoshpere and sets alone. While at times it is drastically different than the book, it is still the closest any movie version of Tarzan has come to the real thing. I think someone involved must have read "Tarzan Alive a Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke." The Amazon reviewer obviously has no idea what he/she is talking about. Tarzan did come out of Africa with the Frenchman D'Arnot, and Tarzan's first spoken language was French. If Lambert has any French inflections in his speech, it works out perfectly.Movie Review: Lambert's Tarzan - A Classic
Summary: 4 Stars
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. Movie Review: Razor...mirror...
Summary: 4 Stars
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.
Summary of Greystoke: Legend of Tarzan: Lord of the Apes [VHS]
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 FineJungle Action Video
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