Tarzan and the Lost City (film)
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Director Carl Schenkel Initial DVD release September 15, 1998 Language English | 3.8/10 IMDb Genre Action, Adventure, Family Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date April 24, 1998 Based on Characters created
by Edgar Rice Burroughs Writer Edgar Rice Burroughs (stories), Bayard Johnson (screenplay), J. Anderson Black (screenplay) Prequel Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes Cast Casper Van Dien (Tarzan / John Clayton), Jane March (Jane Porter), Steven Waddington (Nigel Ravens), Winston Ntshona (Mugambe), Rapulana Seiphemo (Kaya), Sean Taylor (Wilkes)Similar movies Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa , The Ghost and the Darkness , The Jungle Book , Madagascar , The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian , The Lion King | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tarzan and the Lost City is a 1998 American action-adventure film directed by Carl Schenkel, and starring Casper Van Dien, Jane March and Steven Waddington. The screenplay by Bayard Johnson and J. Anderson Black is loosely based on the Tarzan stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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One of the film's producers, Stanley S. Canter, had produced another Tarzan film for Warner Bros., Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, back in 1984.
Plot Synopsis
In 1913, on the night before Jane Porter's wedding to John Clayton (also known as Tarzan), her bridegroom receives a disturbing vision of his childhood homeland in peril. Much to Jane's distress, Clayton leaves for Africa to help. The educated explorer Nigel Ravens is seeking the legendary city of Opar, to plunder its ancient treasures. But then Jane decides to follow her fiancé, and he must protect her while trying to stop Ravens and his men.
Production
The film was shot in South Africa.
German composer Christopher Franke, who had also worked on Babylon 5 and Universal Soldier, composed the original musical score.
Cast
Reception
The film received mainly negative reviews, criticizing the low budget production values, effects and writing, and has a "rotten" 6% on review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes.
However, a very rare positive review came from the New York Times, where critic Lawrence Van Gelder declared the film "A throwback to the days of Saturday afternoon adventures in exotic locales that were usually Hollywood back lots" and that it "zips along, past the ritual lions, elephants and cobras to the city of Opar and its temple of illusions, tunnels and traps, and right to the inevitable satisfying showdown."
References
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