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Greystoke: Legend of Tarzan
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301008747
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 630100874X
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: April 01, 1992
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 30, 1984
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Editorial Review:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Outstanding history
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.
Rating:  - Great film, not for family viewing though
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 ... Read More
Rating: - True to the books
As a kid, I used to read the Edgar Rice Burroughs TARZAN novels - and loved them! Of all the Tarzan movies I've seen, this one comes the closest to Burrough's vision of the character. It is tragic that so many people associate Tarzan with the much-parodied (and fabricated) "Me Tarzan, you Jane." This infamous line is not to be found in the books.
It may come as a surprise to many, but the Tarzan in the novels is HIGHLY intelligent, cunning, multi-lingual and has had much experience ... Read More
Rating: - A classic---almost
When I first viewed this film, I was taken by the fabulous performance of the Tarzan character. The first 2/3 of the film is wonderful and the viewer can identify with the "human" qualities of the apes----just like the boy Tarzan did. But the last third of the movie is a bit too much, particularly the scenes at the British Museum. At that point the movie became too contrived and unbelievable. But the scenery and the acting are wonderful.
Rating: - Tarzan at his best.
A very well done Tarzan remake! The stars were great, locations wonderful, and the story was added to by filling in details we had never seen before.
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