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...TARZAN, THE APE MAN Directed by John Derek Screenplay by Tom Rowe and Gary Goddard...
...producer and star, and her husband John, as director and cinematographer, have basted together a new Tarzan, which the descendants of Author Edgar Rice Burroughs tried futilely to suppress. The story is familiar and faithful: Jane Parker (Bo) and her great white hunter father (Richard Harris) trek through the jungle and find the Ape Man (Miles O'Keeffe). But the plot is so much crinoline for Bo to shuck before cavorting au naturel with Tarzan or monkeying around with wildlife...
...could say this is a sexy Tarzan film," says Bo Derek, "but there is nothing lewd or obscene about it. It's pure sex, and there's a lot of nudity, but it all appears very natural...
...appear all that natural to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., corporate guardian of Tarzan's good name. An R-rated Tarzan, the Ape Man? One produced by and starring the sexiest number in "10,"and directed by her husband John? Convinced that the film would besmirch the jungle lord's reputation, the Burroughs estate went to court. Last week in Manhattan, Federal Judge Henry Werker previewed the film and re-viewed two earlier MGM versions of Burroughs' first Tarzan novel. His "suggestion": that MGM cut four sequences displaying Bo in various stages of undress. According to John Derek...
...seems the Pontiff will be denied that opportunity. And generations of aging boys, who recall Maureen O'Sullivan's nude swimming scene in the 1934 Tarzan and His Mate, will be forced to make do with a little Bo peek. Meanwhile Hollywood is happy to have another scandale on its hands. "Well, well, well," drawled one director working on the MGM lot, " Junglegate.'' -By Richard Corliss. Reported by Dean Brelis/New York and Elaine Dutka/Los Angeles