Film · Drama, Adventure
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
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.
- Director
- Hugh Hudson
- Writers
- Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael Austin, Robert Towne
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Release date
- March 30, 1984
Cast
Christopher LambertJohn Clayton / Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Andie MacDowellMiss Jane Porter
Ralph RichardsonThe Sixth Earl of Greystoke
Ian HolmCapitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
James FoxLord Charles Esker
Cheryl CampbellLady Alice Clayton
Ian CharlesonJeffson Brown
Nigel DavenportMajor Jack Downing
Nicholas FarrellSir Hugh Belcher
Richard GriffithsCaptain Billings
Paul GeoffreyLord John Clayton
Hilton McRaeWilly
David SuchetBuller- RavinderDean
- John WellsSir Evelyn Blount
Paul BrookeRev Stimson
Tristram JellinekChalky White
Roddy Maude-RoxbyOlivestone- Eric LangloisTarzan aged 12
- Danny PottsTarzan Aged 5
