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Release Date:
24 September 1981 (West Germany)
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Tagline:
Unlike any other "Tarzan" you've ever seen!
Plot:
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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Awards:
1 win
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5 nominations
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User Comments:
Bo, breasts, and bloomin' idiots, and a buncha monkeys.
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Additional Details
Runtime:
107 min
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Trivia:
During a scene involving "Jane" attempting to get away from "Tarzan",
Miles O'Keeffe found himself face to face with a full grown lion, who took on the part of the gallant gentleman saving the damsel in distress. The lion, escaping his holding pen, dived into the fray, apparently more intent on protecting
Bo Derek than attacking Miles O'Keeffe (it was noted that the 200 pound man wasn't injured by the 500 pound cat). The handler was on the scene almost immediately, stopping the incident. Although neither human star were injured, rumor had it that Miles O'Keeffe thereafter made a habit of checking the security of the holding pen whenever other scenes of "violence" toward Bo Derek were done, citing a deep respect for Bo Derek's formidable self-appointed bodyguard.
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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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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.