| Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan | 
 enlarge | Director: Hugh Hudson
Actors: Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, James Fox, Christopher Lambert, Andie Macdowell
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 8872
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 137
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD11375D
ISBN: 0790740753
UPC: 085391137528
EAN: 9780790740751
ASIN: B0001NBLYK
Theatrical Release Date: March 30, 1984
Release Date: June 8, 2004
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In 1886 following a ship wreck off the west coast of africa an infant child became part of a family of apes who raised and protected him. As he grew he learned the laws of the jungle and eventually claimed the title lord of the apes. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/08/2005 Starring: Christopher Lambert Ralph Richardson Run time: 143 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Hugh Hudson
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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
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 My Favorite Tarzan September 2, 2008
I grew up with the Tarzan movies and TV show and read all the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels and this one, "Tarzan, the Legend of Greystoke" is my very favorite of all of them. The storyline and actors are all superb. You can't beat it.
LOOK OUT FOR THAT TREE!!! July 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been on a Tarzan kick ever since I bought my 70's cartoons I grew up with
TARZAN: HA-HA-HA N'KEEMA
Anyway I thought I'd tell ya about this little gem GREYSTOKE THE LEGEND OF TARZAN. This is probably the best adaption of Tarzan(wait I love Johnny as well just this script was very strong) Of course you know the story. Tarzan
and his family who are dead are marooned in the jungle and Tarzan is raised
by the Apes to grow up and become LORD OF THE JUNGLE what I really loved about this film is the time it takes to develop Tarzan and not just have him swinging on a vine the first 10 min. This movie is not for kids for their are scenes of neck breaking-urinating-and blood shed(though in truth the kids will love it...Look at ROBOCOP that was a hard R rating and became a cartoon the next year on Sat.mornings???) I really liked the directing acting and script to this film and if anyone ever was a Newbie to Tarzan(shame-shame-shame on you) then I would recommend this first hand...Oh! Yes TARZAN THE APEMAN from Johhny Weissmuller too! Just stay
away from TARZAN THE APEMAN (81) "cough"
So buy GREYSTOKE you will go Ape over it :/
Greystoke, the Legend of Tarzan July 20, 2008
I suppose one of the "themes" to this film, was that love has no limits, and anyone can be a father, or mother, but not anyone can be a Daddy and Mommy. And that family dosn't necessariy mean "blood," but means that wherever there is love, and support, respect and kindness..that can be a real family. Christopher Lambert certainly made a sexy Tarzan, made me wonder about the "animal" in all of us. Also, the theme of using animals for testing whatever, the cruelty of it. How human beings can be so clueless and so smug, in dealing with other species of living beings. Also, that animals aren't just "animals", they are living beings with feelings and emotions, and are capable of love. Sure, it's "just" a movie, but even in movies, I believe certain truths are put out there. This film is a little hokey in some parts, but I loved it.
Outstanding history March 8, 2008
Wow, I was mesmerized with this movie - have seen it more than once, and my kids did too. Andie McDowell is wonderful anyway, then add the other great actors and the historical flavor - then the moral and ethical issues each character is dealing with. Wow.
 Great film, not for family viewing though February 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think this has to be one of the best "retellings" of the Tarzan phenomenon. I just recently saw this movie for the first time, and I think the scenes were great, and the photography was out of this world. However, I do not think this is a film that would be great for the entire family to see.
This film was made back in 1983, then released in 1984. At that time, other movies were beginning to make their mark as going "over the line". Movies such as "Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom" and "Gremlins" were two films that caused a new MPAA rating to come along, which today we know as PG-13. This movie, I think, was another one that caused the creation of the PG-13 rating. If this movie had been made today, it definitely would have received this rating, I am sure. I found the nude scenes a little disturbing, being today, putting under age actors completely nude in a film would be unheard of. Then, watching this with the family would be a little uncomfortable as well. The scene where young Tarzan urinates on the ape was a little too much as well.
With that said, I still think the movie was great entertainment, and it's too bad this didn't rejuvenate the series into occasional movies, like the old Weissmuller films. But, I guess those days are over.
Still, a well made film, and Ralph Richardson's last screen performance is great!
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