Made in the red heat of Bo Derek mania following 10 this was a smart idea - take some pre existing IP, add Bo Derek, and stir.
Interesting opening with Wilfred Hyde White and others telling the story in voice over. Jane/Derek is in Africa looking for her father Richard Harris - and the first fifty minutes or so is devoted to them, and John Philip Law, before Tarzan appears.
It's beautifully shot - Derek's skill as a photographer is evident - with tremendous locations. John Derek isn't a great action director - he loves slow motion. Though Bo being attacked by a python was quite effective at first but then Tarzan fighting it slow motion wasn't, nor is the final duel between Tarzan and a baddy.
There's campy scenes like Bo frolicking nude in the sea and going the grope on a sleeping Tarzan watching by an orangutang and Bo pained in white stuff by third act baddies talking to Harris who tells her to leave your body and we'll go on a ferris wheel soon.
Richard Harris chews the scenery and looks awful but does give this a bit of life. There's a lot of objectification of O'Keefe's body so in a way this film is kind of progressive.
It's not terrible. Some reviews were hysterically bad but I think they were silly. I mean the film is silly but it's fine.
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