Greystoke (1984)
Critic Reviews
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The New York Times Vincent Canby
Greystoke is one of the most thoroughly enjoyable films of its kind I've ever seen.
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90
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Newsweek Jack Kroll
Greystoke is entertaining, intelligent, even touching in its broad-scale treatment of a story that has always provided common ground for children and grown-ups. The main problem with this movie is that it's too short. [26 Mar 1984, p.74]
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75
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TV Guide Magazine
The most intelligent and perhaps the best filmic treatment of Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic pulp novels about Tarzan, the white child of noble blood raised by apes in the jungle, since Elmo Lincoln first brought the character to the screen in 1918.
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70
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Time Out
Rhetoric apart, the film offers some stirring entertainment, and a memorable ham sandwich from Richardson, allowed to steal the show as the grandfather in what proved to be his last film.
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70
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Variety
On a production level, film is a marvel, as fabulous Cameroon locations have been seamlessly blended with studio recreations of jungle settings.
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63
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Miami Herald Bill Cosford
Greystoke has its many pleasures, and despite its bobtailing at the hands of the bottom-line-watchers, it has the sweep of epic. [30 Mar 1984, p.D1]
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60
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Washington Post Gary Arnold
Innovative, lavish and lacking. [30 Mar 1984, p.D1]
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50
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Washington Post Rita Kempley
Despite all the talent, form triumphs over substance. Director Hugh (Chariots of Fire) Hudson clutches, and climactic scenes miss their mark. Greystoke is curious entertainment, less satisfying than Planet of the Apes, which begs the same question: noble savage or naked ape? [30 Mar 1984, p.21]
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Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
As directed by Hugh Hudson, the movie isn't workaday for a second, with its epic scale and awesome vistas and all. Instead of enhancing the story, though, the niggling details and dignified touches just slow things down. [12 Apr 1984, p.33]
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40
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Empire Ian Nathan
It picks up in the last hour, though this is a very minor compensation in an otherwise long and listless film.
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