Directed by John Derek, now I wonder how Bo got the part. Does not matter how she got there it is fun to watch her get wet every time you turn around. She was wet in "10" (1979) but here she is all wet.
This is a simple adaptation of the Tarzan story where Jane joins her father (Richard Harris) in an expedition. He tells here of the Tarzan legend. She wanders off. During her wet period Tarzan (Miles O'Keeffe) appears on the scene and plucks her. Bo sort of monkeys around. And Tarzan gets snaked. Daddy gets stuck and we all live happily ever after? Or do we?
BO-ring!!!!
Possibly one of the worst movies ever made, Bo and John Derek managed to massacre the Tarzan legend while wreaking cinematic havoc with this unbelievably bad waste of celluloid. Where to begin....the lousy script, the poopy cinematography, the atrocious acting....I can't think of enough adjectives to describe how putrid this actually is. As for erotic - forget it. Jane should have boffed the ape instead. Jane and papa head through the jungle, delayed by her repeated falls into the river. Despite the time period, when women were supposed to be modest, Jane doesn't seem to know what underwear is. Yeesh. I can't believe people actually paid to see this tripe. If you must watch it, rent it and save some $. You'll be glad you did
The Story of Jane
The title character does not get much screen time in this film. He doesn't even get any lines (most of his yells are done so that you can't see his mouth). This is really the story of Jane.
Jane has decided to go to Africa to search for her father who left her and her mother many years before. On the way she must defend her virtue, kill the crew of the boat she hired, and pilot the boat to her father. There she finds a man who seems to have had his brains baked in the sun a little too long.
Eventually they all go off to search an escarpment to find the elephant's graveyard. Once on top they find the giant inland sea and a bizarre tribe living near the graveyard (we only see one dead elephant so at the time I did not know the "graveyard" had been found). They also run into Tarzan who has the habit of not speaking and passing out whenever he exerts himself.
I really got the feeling that the only thing any of the film's creators knew about Tarzan was what they had learned from Johnny Weissmuller films. The escarpment seems to be about half the continent. It is nearly impossible to climb so I don't know how dying elephants manage to get up it. Jane's experiences with the bizarre tribe (where she gets painted white) seem to have been lifted from Ursula Andress's film Slave Of The Cannibal God.
There is very little that is right with this film (other than that it does finally end). Jane goes from super-able to a frightened schoolgirl but eventually falls for Tarzan and reconciles with her father. But in the end it is not really worth watching. For viewers who are hoping to see Bo Derek nude, almost all of that is found during the closing credits so you might as well just skip right to them.
Forget that there's a movie going on - the plot is completely supported by Bo Derek's amazing body. All these years later and she's still hot to look at. And this movie doesn't tease - it's all please to a viewing audience. And with the wonders of DVD controls, you get to fully appreciate what she meant to a lot of guys who stole their uncle's Playboys.
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One of the best comedies of the 1970s, Blake Edwards's ode to midlife crisis and the hazards of infidelity now plays like a valentine to that self-indulgent decade, and it's still as funny as it ever was. In the signature role of his career (along with "Arthur"), Dudley Moore plays a songwriter with a severe case of marital restlessness, and all it takes is a chance encounter with Bo Derek (in her screen debut) to jump-start his libido. Julie Andrews plays Moore's wife, who will only tolerate so much of her husband's desperate need to reaffirm his sexual vitality, while Moore pursues Derek to a tropical rendezvous. The action builds to the now-famous bedroom scene that sent everyone rushing to the music store for their own copy of Ravel's Boléro. Talk about a classical... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Dudley Moore - Bo Derek Director(s): Blake Edwards DVD Release Date: Released the 27 August 1997 Usually ships in 24 hours
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While on Safari Phillip Ames (Michael Shannon) and Betsy Ames (Nancy Paul) the parents of little Janet Ames (Kathryn Gant) are dispatched. So Janet is raised by a local female shaman and allowed to run around wild (Kirsty Lindsay). Eventually she grows accoutrements and becomes a physic witch. To better fit her persona Janet becomes Sheena (Tanya Roberts.)
Sheena happy to play with her animal friends that she is in psychic link with; her world is disrupted when the shaman is falsely accused of murdering a prominent leader. Naturally she has to do something about this which lands her squarely in the bull's eye of the real culprits. She enlists the help of a not so ept news man in her endeavor to set things right.
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