A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
Christopher Lambert
Andie MacDowell
Ralph Richardson
Ian Holm
James Fox
Cheryl Campbell
Ian Charleson
Nigel Davenport
Nicholas Farrell
Richard Griffiths
Paul Geoffrey
Hilton McRae
David Suchet
Ravinder
John Wells
Paul Brooke
Tristram Jellinek
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Eric Langlois
Danny Potts
Peter Kyriakou
Tali McGregor
Peter Elliott
Ailsa Berk
John Alexander
Christopher Beck
Mak Wilson
Deep Roy
Kiran Shah
Philip Tan
Tina Maskell
David Forman
Martin Pallot
Douglas Mann
George Antoni
Harriet Thorpe
Barrie Holland