Cinema: Jungle Rot

TARZAN, THE APE MAN Directed by John Derek Screenplay by Tom Rowe and Gary Goddard

Bo Derek is an engineering marvel —translucent eyes, enigmatic smile, buoyant breasts on a lithe, lovely frame. But there is a stillness, an emptiness to Bo's beauty that suggests that her proper medium may well be a Playboy photo spread. In movement, in movies, beauty is not enough—not even for a sex goddess. It must be animated by a glimmer of spirit, experience, desire. Inside the Bo ideal should be a real woman. Not yet. Not...

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