When still an actor, director John Derek (who also serves as his own cinematographer here) had worked with some good film-makers (Cecil B. Lead actress/producer Bo Derek is rather ridiculous playing the schoolgirl-ish sexual innocent (witness the inept banana scene) and, as was to be expected, she is made to get her clothes off a few times but, as welcome as these scenes were, she came off as far more sensual in 10 than she does here Richard Harris, then, chews the scenery incessantly as Jane’s obsessed explorer father, but John Philip Law barely registers as his aide who meekly shows some initial interest in Jane herself newcomer Miles O’Keeffe has the title role and he only makes his entrance 45 minutes into the movie, is completely silent throughout except for his famous yodel (which is probably lifted from Johnny Weissmuller anyway!) and, furthermore, is as inexpressive as one of the trees he dangles from at regular intervals throughout the film’s second half! for the record, he later starred in two ATOR movies (or would-be CONAN imitators) for Joe D’Amato and the King Arthur-era set, SWORD OF THE VALIANT (1984).
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Surely one of the most ill-advised remakes of a classic in film history – especially since the promise of its tag-line, “The most beautiful woman of our time in the most erotic adventure of all time”, isn’t even properly exploited! Although this film was regularly shown on TV in my neck of the woods since my childhood days, its notoriety (for awfulness not erotic content, mind you) kept me away from it until now – and I only relented because I have recently enjoyed Bo Derek’s previous film, 10 (1979), and have been watching a lot of fantasy stuff as well over the Christmas period.
If you are looking for a thoughtful, entertaining and worth-while film, go elsewhere.almost anywhere else at that!!! If you are looking for a movie to slobber over a beautiful naked body, then this might fill the ticket. Tarzan would be the only primitive man on the planet who would have that problem. This despite the fact that Bo is wearing a wet see-thru shirt, with her breast prominently displayed.
And Tarzan, well, he's all muscular like you think he should be, but when he sees Jane (that's Bo, of course) for the first time, he doesn't know what to think. But when you take that aspect out of the film, it becomes one big dull ride. Mind you, Bo Derek is absolutely incredibly beautiful, and she and husband-director John Derek make sure you see plenty of her. However, now that I'm older, I can honestly say that this film is awful. Of course, the reason for that is Bo Derek and her various states of undress in this film. When I was a teen-ager seeing this film for the first time, I thought it was one of the best movies ever made.
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