Africa – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981) | John Derek

May 8, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

Set in 1910, virginal Jane Parker (Bo Derek), a feminist who thinks women should be able to explore the world the same as men. She travels to Africa to find the father she never knew, renowned explorer James Parker (Richard Harris). James, who abandoned her when she was an infant, thinks Jane is the spitting […]

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) | Hugh Hudson

May 1, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Based on elements within Edgar Rice Burroughs’s 1912 novel, “Tarzan of the Apes,” Greystoke begins in the late 19th century, where a young couple born into Scottish nobility, Jack Clayton and his pregnant wife Alice, find themselves shipwrecked off the coast of Western Africa. Months later, they give birth to a boy who quickly becomes […]

Sheena (1984) | John Guillermin

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 qwipster Comment is Closed

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The story of Sheena involves a young girl orphaned after her geologist parents are killed in a cave-in while exploring the source of mystical healing soil found near the jungle in the fictional African country of Tigora. The native Zambouli villagers immediately adopt the girl, dubbing her “Sheena,” prophecied to be their savior and the […]

The Jewel of the Nile (1985) | Lewis Teague

February 28, 2019April 18, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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In this follow-up to the 1984 hit, Romancing the Stone, it’s hard to live up to a “happily ever after ending”, especially for a successful romance novelist like Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner), who has learned more about romance in the chase than she does in the union of the two would-be lovebirds. It’s affecting her work, […]