Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996)
ジャンル : アドベンチャー, テレビ映画
上映時間 : 1時間 30分
演出 : Brian Yuzna
シノプシス
Tarzan has a tough encounter with arms dealer Nikolai who then kidnaps Colette and wants to sell her in Africa. Tarzan gets captured, escapes and follows Nikolai who has teamed up with netherworld queen Mara and her flesh eaters. Serves as the pilot to the Tarzan: The Epic Adventures television series.
One of the most classic and revered stories of all time, Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan returns to the big screen for a new generation. Tarzan and Jane face a mercenary army dispatched by the evil CEO of Greystoke Energies, a man who took over the company from Tarzan's parents, after they died in a plane crash in the African jungle.
生後間もなく国の反乱が原因で、コンゴのジャングルで動物たちに育てられた英国貴族ターザンは、美しい妻ジェーンとロンドンで生活していた。ある日、政府の命令で故郷へ戻るがそれは巧妙なわなで、ジャングルを侵略された上に、妻がさらわれてしまう。愛する妻と故郷を取り戻すべく、ターザンは内なる野性を呼び覚まして戦うことを決意する。
海難事故のためアフリカのジャングルで生まれ、両親を失ったため動物たちによって育てられた少年ジョン。彼はスコットランド貴族の血を引いていた……。数あるターザン映画のなかで、最もシリアスな作品。
ジャングルにジェーン達がやってくるずっと前、ターザンがまだほんの小さな男の子だった頃。独りだけ姿が違う上、走るのも木登りも他の子たちほどうまくできないターザンは、トラブルばかり起こしていた。育ての母カーラは、そんなターザンをいつでも優しく守ってくれましたが、ある日、谷底に落ちそうになったターザンを助けようとしたカーラが、大怪我を負ってしまいます。自分のせいで母を危険な目に合わせてしまったと思い悩んだターザンは、群れを離れ当てもなく走り出す。ジャングル奥深くへ進む少年ターザンを待ち受けていたのは、今までに体験したこともなかったスリルいっぱいの大冒険だった。
深い森の中でゴリラに育てられ、たくましく成長したターザン。動物学者の父とともにゴリラの研究のためにジャングルへやって来たジェーンが、ターザンといっしょに暮らし始めて1年が経った。ジェーンは冒険に満ちたこの１年の色々なできごとを振り返る。仲間との再会や新たな敵の出現、そして火山の大爆発。ジャングルでの毎日はスリルとアクションの連続でした。
嵐で遭難した英国人夫婦はアフリカの未開地に漂着するが、人食いヒョウの襲撃を受け、赤ん坊を残して殺されてしまう。メスゴリラのカーラに助けられた赤ん坊は、ターザンと名付けられ、ゴリラの群れの一員となった。ターザンは、仲間と姿形の違う自分の出自に悩みながらも、たくましい青年に成長していく。ある日、ターザンはジャングルにやって来たポーター教授の探検隊を目撃するが、やがて教授の娘ジェーンと親しくなっていく。
James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich. Parker's beautiful daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly to join them. Jane is terrified when Tarzan and his ape friends abduct her, but when she returns to her father's expedition she has second thoughts about leaving Tarzan.
A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five years later a search party comes to find the young heir to millions of dollars. Jane agrees, against Tarzan's will, to lead them to civilization.
Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.
White hunter Captain Fry tries to take Tarzan back to civilization, caged for public display. He arrives in the jungle with Jane's cousins, Eric and Rita, who want Jane's help in claiming a fortune left her.
A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.
A tribe devoted to the leopard cult is dedicated to preventing civilization from moving further into Africa.
Tarzan returns to his homeland of Africa to save his home from destruction.
Zandra, white princess of a lost civilization, comes to Tarzan for help when Nazis invade the jungle with plans to conquer her people and take their wealth. Tarzan, the isolationist, becomes involved after the Nazis shoot at him and capture Boy: "Now Tarzan make war!"
Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane follow them to New York.
A scientific expedition happens to discover that gold exists on Tarzan's escarpment. The villainous Medford and Vandermeer kidnap Jane and Boy to extort from Tarzan the location of the gold.
A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
Shame, the ape man of the jungle, is aghast when his woman, June, is kidnapped by a gang of giant penises. They take her to their queen, Bazunga, a bald woman with fourteen breasts. After tangling with a gang of great white hunters, a marauding lion and the Molar Men, Shame sets off to rescue her with only his faithful friend Flicka at his side. He heads for that darkest of areas
A letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan's help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants. Tarzan and Boy set out across the desert looking for the plants. Along the way they befriend a stranded American lady magician.
The greatest adventure of jungle king Tarzan. Four British villains raid a settlement to obtain explosives for use in a diamond mine. In doing so they nearly destroy the settlement, so Tarzan pursues them to their mine.
