MacDowell, a Southerner, couldn’t pull off a proper British accent).Įven though the Weissmuller films were made over 60 years ago, they prove to be the easiest to watch, a sort of proto–Discovery Channel. Now, for your viewing pleasure, Warner Home Video has released “The Tarzan Collection,” six films starring former Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan as well as Tarzan the Ape Man (1981), directed by John Derek and starring his wife Bo and the beefy Miles O’Keeffe and the failed 1984 epic Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, The Lord of the Apes with Christopher Lambert and introducing Andie MacDowell (in her first movie role, though Glenn Close’s voice was famously dubbed in after Ms. There doesn’t seem to be much more that can be mined from this franchise (though surely Jerry Bruckheimer will find a way). Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan, the epitome of the strong, silent type, has seen countless onscreen permutations over the years: multiple movies, a TV series, a cartoon, not to mention too much pornography for even our young, willing fist.
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