USA, UK, 1983
143m, 11,697 feet
35mm film, System 35, 70mm film, Eastmancolor, 2.35:1
70mm 6-Track Dolby Stereo, English
An American/British fantasy film directed by Hugh Hudson.
Plot Summary
When his aristocratic parents die and leave him stranded in the jungles of Africa, the infant John Greystoke is raised by a tribe of apes. Discovered as a young man by a Belgian botanist, John is returned to Britain where he is reunited with his family and meets and falls in love with Jane Parker. But will John ever really be able to shake off his primate upbringing and adjust to a life in civilisation?
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Directed by: Hugh Hudson
© 1983 Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. and Warner Bros. Inc.
Warner Bros. presents a Hugh Hudson film
Produced by: Hugh Hudson and Stanley S. Canter
Associate Producer: Garth Thomas
Screenplay by: P.H. Vazak [real name: Robert Towne] and Michael Austin
Based on the story “Tarzan of the Apes” by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Photographed by: John Alcott
Film Editor: Anne V. Coates
Original Film Score Composed and Conducted by: John Scott
Sound Recordist: Ivan Sharrock
Costumes Designed by: John Mollo
Chief Make Up: Paul Engelen
Chief Hairdresser: Barry Richardson
Special Make Up Effects [opening credits]/Primate Costumes Designed and Created by: Rick Baker
Special Effects Supervisor: Peter Hutchinson
Special Visual Effects: Albert J. Whitlock
Production Designer: Stuart Craig
Primate Choreography: Peter Elliott
Primate Consultant: Roger Fouts
Animal Consultant: Jimmy Chipperfield
Cast
Ralph Richardson as the sixth Earl of Greystoke
Ian Holm as Capitaine Phillippe D’Arnot
James Fox as Lord [Charles] Esker
Christopher Lambert as John Clayton, Tarzan Lord of the Apes
Andie MacDowell as Miss Jane Porter
Cheryl Campbell as Lady Alice Clayton
Ian Charleson as Jeffson Brown
Nigel Davenport as Major Jack Downing
Nicholas Farrell as The Hon. Hugh Belcher
Paul Geoffrey as Lord Jack Clayton
Richard Griffiths as Captain Billings
Hilton McRae as Willy
David Suchet as Buller
Ravinder as Dean
John Wells as Sir Evelyn Blount
Eric Langlois as Tarzan aged twelve
Daniel Potts as Tarzan aged five
Peter Kyriakou as Tarzan aged one
Tali McGregor as infant Tarzan
Paul Brooke as The Rev. Stimson
Tristram Jellinek as White
Roddy Maude-Roxby as Olivestone
Primate Sequences Performed By
Elliot W. Cane as Silverbeard, primate father
Ailsa Berk as Kala, primate mother
John Alexander as White Eyes, primate leader
Christopher Beck as Droopy Ears, Tarzan’s childhood friend
Mak Wilson as Figs, Tarzan’s follower
Rona Brown, Georgia Clarke, Tessa Crockett, Francis D’Arcy, David Forman, Toh Koksum, Eugene Little, Tina Maskell, Dougie Mann, Rory Mitchell, Martin Pallot, Deep Roy, Kiran Shah, Philip Tan, Martin Scully, George Yiasoumi
David Endene [boat captain] *
Colin Charles [Olly] *
Bridget Biargi [lady at dinner party] *
Elaine Collins [Ruby] *
Sheila Latimer [Duchess] *
Alison Macrae [Jane aged 5] *
Andrea Miller [governess] *
Anne Scott-Jones [lady at dinner] *
Harriet Thorpe [Iris] *
Emile Abossolo [D’Arnot’s bearer] *
Philemon Blake Ondoua [Aloo] *
Messanga Messanga [Belcher’s bearer] *
Atangana Messi [Kulonga] *
Jean Mingele [Downing’s bearer] *
Ali Mvondo [Blount’s bearer] *
Emanuelle Obeya [beaten boy] *
Jacobin Yarro [riverbank chief] *
Glenn Close [voice of Jane Porter] *
Alternative Titles
Greystoke la leggenda di Tarzan il signore delle scimmie – Italy
Greystoke, la légende de Tarzan, seigneur des singes – France
Greystoke, la leyenda de Tarzán el rey de los monos – Spain
Greystoke, The Legend of Tarzan
Greystoke: A Lenda de Tarzan o Rei da Selva – Portugal
Greystoke: Die Legende von Tarzan, Herr der Affen – Germany
Greystoke: Legenda Tarzanista, apinain kuninkaasta – Finland
Greystoke: Legenden om Tarzan – Sweden
Greystoke
Legenda Tarzana, wladcy malp – Poland
Tarzan – Czechoslovakian title
Tarzan, a majmok ura – Hungary
Links
Extracts included in
Biography: Tarzan: The Legacy of Edgar Rice Burroughs (1996).
References
Periodicals
- Films April 1984 p.26 – credits, review
- Première October 1984 p.11 – review (by Marc Esposito)
- Radio Times 19 December 1987-1 January 1988 pp.27, 30, 104 – credits, review
- Starburst no.69 pp.24-25 – illustrated review
Newspapers
- The Sun 12 April 1984 p.15 – article
Books
- Kings of the Jungle: An Illustrated Reference to “Tarzan” on Screen and Television by David Fury – article
