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Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)

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While on an African expedition with her father, Jane Parker meets Tarzan, and the two become fascinated by each other.

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Akushula Selayah ...
Africa
Steve Strong ...
Ivory King
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Riano
Leonard Bailey ...
Feathers
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Harold Ayer ...
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Storyline

The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters with Tarzan establish a (sexual) bond between her and Tarzan. When the expedition is captured by savages, Tarzan comes to the rescue. Written by Anonymous

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24 July 1981 (USA)  »

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$6,500,000 (estimated)
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Trivia

Though this re-working and revisionist version of Tarzan makes Jane the central character, the movie nonetheless still retained a traditional Tarzan title and was not titled Jane (or Jane Parker). In the few years after this picture was made, a few central female character adventure movies were made with the female character's name being the title or included as part of the title. These included Sheena (1984); She - Eine verrückte Reise in die Zukunft (1982), Red Sonja (1985), Hundra (1983) and The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak (1984). Moreover, the titles of adventure movies Sorceress (1982), The Warrior (1984), Barbarian Queen (1985) and Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back (1990) all referred to a central female character. See more »

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When Jane fights the snake in the river, it changes from a reticulated python to a Burmese python and back several times. See more »

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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Crazy Credits

Tarzan and Jane play with an orangutan throughout the end credits. See more »

Connections

Remade as Tarzan (1999) See more »

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Bo, breasts, and bloomin' idiots, and a buncha monkeys.
1 May 1999 | by (New Orleans, LA) – See all my reviews

Of course this is a horrid movie, for pete's sake, it was made by John Derek, one of the worst actors ever. (He played Joshua in the Ten Commandments, and his performance there is truly laughable). Bo of course runs around topless or near topless for most of the movie, and has one expression: vacant. No one has yet mentioned Richard Harris' utterly deranged performance as Jane's dad. Harris acts as if he has drunk a case of Jack Daniels and snorted a pound of cocaine. He runs through the entire movie screaming, shouting, and gesticulating insanely, and when he's finally killed by the ALL-WHITE-PEOPLE CANNIBAL TRIBE (I kid you not) you cheer in relief. Another point of hilarity is Miles O'Keefe's pointless battle with an OBVIOUSLY COMPLETELY FAKE rubber boa constrictor. All in all a truly dreadful movie, but still not as awful as Manos: The Hands Of Fate. See it at your own risk, or only if you have an unhealthy fixation on Bo Derek's breasts.


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