John, Lord Clayton, the heir to the 6th Earl of Greystoke, and his pregnant wife Alice are shipwrecked on the African coast. It became the first Tarzan feature film to be nominated for an Academy Award the later Disney animated feature film adaptation became the first one to win an Oscar. Greystoke received three Oscar nominations at the 57th Academy Awards ceremony for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Richardson, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, and Best Makeup. Christopher Lambert stars as Tarzan (though the name Tarzan is never used in the film's dialogue) and Andie MacDowell as Jane the cast also includes Ralph Richardson (in his final role), Ian Holm, James Fox, Cheryl Campbell, and Ian Charleson. This is an excellent film about the conflict between civilization and nature, personified in the young Lord Greystoke, convincingly portrayed by Christopher Lambert.Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a 1984 adventure film directed by Hugh Hudson based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes (1912). There are some disturbing scenes - especially for animal lovers - but no more disturbing than a few scenes in Dances with Wolves. The soundtrack is beautiful without being overwhelming or obtrusive. But this is also a "period" film, and the cinematography also magnificently depicts Victorian England - the countryside, the city and the interiors. The scenery is lush and exotic, and the colors are vivid. It captures both the beauty of the African wilderness and the exotic expectation it holds in the collective imagination of those who have never been there. The cinematography of the African segment of the tale is absolutely beautiful.
I don't know why her voice was overdubbed, either.
I wouldn't have nominated her for an academy award - the role is undemanding - but she is completely up to it, such as it is. I disagree with most of them in that I didn't find anything wrong with Andie McDowell's performance. (Forget what you may think of him in other movies when I saw this film at the theater on its original release, I thought he deserved an academy award.) The supporting cast is uniformly excellent, as other commentators have noted. If he slips up just once the cat will be out of the bag: the audience (especially the adult audience targeted by the film) will laugh, and the film will completely lose its grip. In a stunning performance, Christopher Lambert portrays this angst with absolute realism. Tarzan is no action hero, but a man torn between two worlds - the natural and the civilized. It is beautifully filmed and faithful to the Edgar Rice Burroughs stories. This is a recounting of the Tarzan "legend" from its beginning in intelligent, adult terms. If you are looking for a modern film version of Buster Crabbe or Johnny Weismuller's overcoming the machinations of unscrupulous, white safari guides or cunning, black tribesmen, while saving the animal kingdom, this is NOT the movie for you.
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