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.
Directed byHugh Hudson
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 2h 23m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- March 30, 1984
- Revenue
- $45,858,563
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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
- Directed by
- Hugh Hudson
- Written by
- Michael AustinRobert Towne
- Produced by
- Stanley S. CanterHugh Hudson
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