Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)
Genre:
Action / Adventure (more)
Tagline: Unlike any other "Tarzan" you've ever seen!
Plot Summary: The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition...
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User Comments:
impossible to spoil this movie
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User Rating:
 
2.8/10 (1,678 votes)
bottom 100: #72
Runtime:
107 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Canada:R (Ontario) / Australia:M / Canada:PG (Manitoba) / Finland:K-12 / Norway:12 / Sweden:15 / UK:15 / USA:R / West Germany:12
Trivia:
Lee Canalito was originally cast as Tarzan, but replaced by Miles O'Keeffe at the last minute.
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Goofs:
Continuity: When Jane fights the snake in the river, it changes from a reticulated python to a Burmese python and back several times.
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Quotes:
Parker:
Jane, do you know what he wants? What this ape wants?
Jane:
He's not an ape!
Parker:
He is an ape. He lives like an ape, he kills like an ape. But do you understand what he wants?
Jane:
You know everything...
Parker:
Well, this ape son of a bitch wants you.
Parker:
I'm gonna catch that animal son of a bitch, Mr Holt!
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Awards:
1 win
&
5 nominations
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User Comments:
impossible to spoil this movie, 31 March 2004
Author:
rockinghorse
There are two reasons to see this movie.
HAHAhahahahahahahaha.
The scenery is pretty.
HAHAhahahahahahaha.
Bo Derek, making the talk show circuit while her various movies were in
theaters, insisted she wasn't an actress. No argument there, but some
respect, at least, for an honest person.
John Derek did not admit he wasn't a director. Some people claimed he was
a
photographer. Put Bo Derek on the right side of the lens and some of the
pictures are bound to turn out well, so long as it's not a movie
camera.
Does anyone still expect this movie to be anything but a showcase for Bo
Derek's anatomy?
This is a prime example of how to make a movie featuring a statuesque
actress, topless, and have it be not remotely tittillating.
And Miles O'Keefe went on to appear in WORSE movies. In a few of them he
made the mistake of keeping his shirt on.
Richard Harris does a marvelous rendition of an Irish folk song whose
title
I've forgotten -- I know all the words but not the title -- even though he
has no real voice. He's such an actor that he can whisper a
song.
Toward the end of the movie, he is run through by an elephant tusk and
gives
a long, dying soliloquy to his daughter. Not everyone can talk with a
tusk
stuck in his chest.
Now, to one actual objection: did those who screened the movie, not to
mention Bo and John, not realize that if a naked woman is wrestling
playfully with a monkey, this is socially unacceptable? Mainstream
movies,
however bad, are not supposed to depict bestiality.
I diagree about this being a worse Tarzan movie than Caspar Van Diem's.
His
was not even funny. It was just awful. Didn't even have the saving grace
of Bo Derek and her . . .
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