Finally Bo spends the entire climax of the film wearing nothing but paint.
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Richard Harris shouted his lines at full volume apparently trying to make up for all the non-acting from his two co-stars.
It takes 40 minutes before Bo finally says “I’m going to take a bath.” We waited. Both actors are renowned for their vacuous stares and unearthly physiques.
Bo went on to take her clothes off in all of hubby John Derek’s subsequent films while Miles went on to star in the dreadful Ator the Fighting Eagle (1982) and its Mystery Science Theatre 3000 -worthy sequels. Perhaps that’s because Jane was played by the director’s wife (Bo Derek) and Tarzan was played by first-time actor Miles O’Keefe a beefy charisma vacuum who took the role at the last minute after Bo decided that the originally cast Lee Canalito wasn’t muscle-y enough. The posters advertisements pre-release hype and the story itself all focus on Tarzan’s girlfriend Jane instead of on the Lord of the Apes himself. The all-time champion of the celebrated “films we only watched for the nudity” might very well be Tarzan the Ape Man (1981) a huge blockbuster that wound up being the only R-rated version of the Tarzan story that we ever got. (You kids today don’t know how good you have it etc. There was also the interminable lead time in which the film dawdled around with irrelevant “plot” making us wait for the nudity. We subjected ourselves to Heavy Metal (1981) and The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak (1984) in the hopes of glimpsing a few jiggling breasts (animated or otherwise) and the stultifying stupidity of the surrounding feature film was only noticeable in retrospect. In the pre-Internet days of the 1980s horny youngsters were perfectly willing to sit through an entire terrible movie in the hopes of glimpsing some boobs. The most insane threesome of all time is just an end-credits sequence
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