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Both qualities are on amply display in the bombshell's 1981 bomb, "Tarzan, the Ape Man."
Poor Tarzan, once king of the jungle, has been reduced to the status of mere sex object in this latest screen adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs adventure-classic, ''Tarzan, the Ape Man.''
Toward the end of the film, she’s painted solid white in preparation for a dire cannibal ritual, which invariably leads to unwanted thoughts of Bo Derek’s mud treatment in 1981’s Tarzan, the Ape Man.
By the time “Bolero” pops up on the soundtrack, well, you’re more than primed for the slow motion jump, with Eddie’s very intent facial expression.
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
Directed by Hugh Hudson
influenced by Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)
Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle swinger has been brought to the screen on nearly 100 separate occasions, including Elmo Lincoln's big-screen christening of the role in the silent era, Johnny Weismuller's popular portrayal in 12 movies during the 1930s and '40s, Ron Ely's run on the '60s TV show and Miles O'Keeffe's attempt in the unspeakably awful Tarzan, the Ape Man, starring Bo Derek as the virginal, banana-nibbling Jane.
I even suffered through the 1981 Bo Derek atrocity Tarzan, the Ape Man, a movie so agonizingly awful in every regard that critic Leonard Maltin, in his annual Movie Guide, amusingly wrote that it "nearly forced editors of this book to devise a rating lower than BOMB."
And now, in the past few months, we've had ghost stories: Spielberg's "Always," Bo and John Derek's hideous "Ghosts Can't Do It," the aforementioned "Ghost Dad" and this one, with the no-nonsense title "Ghost."