Trailer - Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan (1984)

PLEASE READ THIS - This trailer was uploaded to Youtube specifically to embed in my web page about this film:
http://terrororstralis.com/films/colour/84.htm

The full title of the film is "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes". It was directed in 1984 by Hugh Hudson, the Academy Award winning director of "Chariots of Fire" (1981). The film starred Christopher Lambert as Tarzan/John Clayton; Andie MacDowell as Jane Porter; Ian Holme as Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot; and Ralph Richardson as the Sixth Earl of Greystoke. Glen Close's New England accent was expertly dubbined in instead of Andie McDowell's southern drawl, but she was never credited.

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[clintbronson5]

This is ONE of the best TARZAN'S ever. We (fans) need a new TARZAN movie it's 2010 for crying out loud. I know I'm by myself in this but would love a rated R version with a lot of blood and guts (yeaaah boyyy)

[pwgr2000]

You may already know this but there has been a new Tarzan project on the books in Hollywood for a few years. Both Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy) and Stephen Sommers (The Mummy) were both mentioned in connection with it but it appears the idea has gone cold again. Any gossip would be appreciated.

[PeterFirthFan]

Pretty funny how it was OK for Eric Langlois to be nude but not the adult Christopher Lambert.

[juliansurl]

I was like wondering, would this movie be like R when it came out? I mean it shows this 12-15 year old boy completely naked (genitals and all). Can they even show that?

[Yamigata]

@joeyvader ... and then the OTHER other half is...Raiden, god of Thunder...

[joeyvader]

Half of me is the Earle of Greystoke...the other half is...Connor MacLeod of the clan MacLeod...

[pwgr2000]

It is only innocent male nudity so I'm not sure what you guys are all fired up about. These days films like "Intimacy" (2001), "The Brown Bunny" (2003) and "Antichrist" (2009) contain scenes with the actors performing unsimulated sex so this stuff about early 80s films having laxer censorship codes is plain wrong. Society's levels of acceptance keep evolving and modern films portray things that would not be tolerated 20 or 30 years ago.

[blkchk]

I remember being really impressed with how realistic the apes looked. Rick Baker also did the 'Beast' for the TV series Beauty and the Beast with Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman.

[pwgr2000]

Yes it is. Interestingly, the Tanya Roberts "Sheena" film from 1984 also had a PG rating but included a fairly lengthy full-frontal scene of Tanya Roberts naked.

[pwgr2000]

I'm afraid I don't understand this comment. What exactly is it that you think wouldn't be allowed today? Surely censorship standards have become much less strict since then.

[samsam29]

I remember watching this in the theater, one of my earliest recollections of movies (earliest being Empire Strikes Back). Favorite part was when he defeated the panther and threw it triumphantly to the apes.

[clintbronson5]

@pwgr2000 No I did not know that? Cool! My wife got me a reprint of ALL STORY MAGAZINE and it truly is one of the best gifts I ever got. I love the fact that TARZAN has been in more comic publisher titles (DC-MARVEL-DELL etc) then any other hero......Put that BATMAN and SPIDERMAN in your pipe and smoke it :)