Film

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

1984 · 2h 23m · Adventure · Drama

IMDb

6.4

Rotten Tomatoes

79%

Metacritic

62

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.

Christopher Lambert

John Clayton / Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Andie MacDowell

Miss Jane Porter

Ralph Richardson

The Sixth Earl of Greystoke

Ian Holm

Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot

James Fox

Lord Charles Esker

Cheryl Campbell

Lady Alice Clayton

Ian Charleson

Jeffson Brown

Nigel Davenport

Major Jack Downing

Nicholas Farrell

Sir Hugh Belcher

Richard Griffiths

Captain Billings

Paul Geoffrey

Lord John Clayton

Hilton McRae

Willy

David Suchet

Buller

Ravinder

Dean

John Wells

Sir Evelyn Blount

Paul Brooke

Rev Stimson

• Hugh HudsonDirector · Producer
• Michael AustinScreenplay
• Robert TowneScreenplay
• Edgar Rice BurroughsNovel
• Stanley S. CanterProducer
• John AlcottDirector of Photography
• John ScottOriginal Music Composer
• Anne V. CoatesEditor
• Patsy PollockCasting

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan 1984 TV trailerGreystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - Trailer

Release date

March 30, 1984

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 23m

Rated

PG

Revenue

$45,858,563

Genres

Adventure, Drama

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