Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes poster
Writer Robert Towne, Michael Austin
Director Hugh Hudson

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Release Date: 1984-03-30

Duration: 143 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Andie MacDowell
    Miss Jane Porter
  • Richard Griffiths
    Captain Billings
  • Ian Holm
    Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot
  • James Fox
    Lord Charles Esker
  • Christopher Lambert
    John Clayton / Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
  • Harriet Thorpe
    Iris (uncredited)
  • David Suchet
    Buller
  • Nicholas Farrell
    Sir Hugh Belcher
  • Ralph Richardson
    The Sixth Earl of Greystoke
  • Philip Tan
    Primate