


She hires a boat to take her to the camp of James Parker, an Allan Quartermain-type explorer who is also her long lost father. After all, a bunch of dirty old men would much rather hear tales about a nubile blonde than the Lord of the Apes.Īs Jane, Bo Derek is covered from head to toe in turn of the century finery. This storytelling device might explain why Tarzan the Ape Man (1981) focuses on Jane’s point of view. What it’s all about: The adventure begins with a narrator (Wilfrid Hyde-White) relating the legend of Tarzan to his fellow club members, one of whom is presumably Edgar Rice Burroughs.

You know this isn’t your father’s Tarzan movie when the MGM logo appears on screen and the lion’s roar is replaced with a Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan yell. The most beautiful woman of our time in the most erotic adventure of all time.
