

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984
Directed by Hugh Hudson
- Adventure, Drama
- 143 min
- PG
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.
AdventureDramababyenglandshipwreckcivilizationtarzanstrandedmonkey
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- 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
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- Hugh HudsonDirector
- Michael AustinScreenplay
- Robert TowneScreenplay
- Edgar Rice BurroughsNovel
- John AlcottDirector of Photography
- John ScottOriginal Music Composer
- Anne V. CoatesEditor
- Stanley S. CanterProducer
- Hugh HudsonProducer
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