Kurtz leading an expedition through the jungles of 1910 Africa to find the legendary "white ape" known as Tarzan. Much of Marlon Brando's Irish-brogued performance in THE MISSOURI BREAKS feels like a tribute to his MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY co-star Harris, so it's possible Harris is repaying the favor here, perhaps intoxicated and seemingly making it up as he goes along but doing so at the top of his voice, like a bellowing Col. Perhaps it was a bad omen when the first bit of nudity we see in this is Richard Harris' junk dangling from under his nightshirt when he squats down into a river.
Though incessant media hype and moviegoer curiosity made it a big hit (it opened in first place at the box office),TARZAN THE APE MAN is a tedious and impossibly boring Sri Lanka travelogue first and live-action Bo pictorial second, and for all the chatter at the time about how sexed-up this was, it's pretty limp in that department, pun intended. Opened 40 years ago this weekend, an anniversary that more or less marked the beginning of the end of post-10 Bo-mania, with the stunning Bo Derek becoming a willing participant in the implosion of her career at the hand of Svengali perv husband John Derek.
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