Richard Harris is the worst performer here (not Bo Derek)
He's simply unbearable.
shareHow very true. Way over the top and alway's yelling and screaming his line's of almost incestous lust for his daughter Jane Parker and polishing symbollicaly his damn phallic stupid "cannon". How very John Derek of him.
Unfortunately original casting of Oliver Reed as James Parker put the production on hold due to a screen actors strike and by which time later Richard Harris was selected to replace him and Oliver was committed to another film project when Tarzan resumed production.
Such a shame really because both Richard Harris and Bo Derek performed admirably well together as ship mate's in Dino DeLarentis 1977's "Orca: the Killer Whale" film far better than either of them do under performing here under hopeless John Derek's direction.
Though to John's credit he is a 1st rate beautiful cinematographer and photographer and Bo's choices as film producer of location's were gorgeous, beautiful and exotic appropriately for the movie's jungle in Sri Lanka as Africa itself fell-through as 1st choice for various security-political reason's. The Music score by Terry Botkin was just "wonderful" and a high light of Tarzan to be adored.
The writing unfortunately was not very good though and the dialog itself even worse.
But for a fairly independent small budget picture at $5-6 Million and a scant crew they did deliver a beautiful looking movie if not albeit a silly one that still managed to gross over $36 million in profits during it's mid-late 1981 summer run.
Nothing is as it seems, nothing is just one thing and nothing is ever just over there;
I'd almost type how crazy it was that it was a hit, but the Fifty Shades movies made over a billion combined so...*shrugs* people want to watch smut in a non-porno theater every now and thing.
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