When she emerges from a sea bath, her Victorian gown clinging to every curve, it's a centerfold vision of creation. Derek in as many different poses, nude and seminude, as there are days of the year, all in something less than two hours. To describe the film as inept would be to miss the point, which is to present Mrs. This ''Tarzan'' is the first, all-moving picture calendar. She is also its star and chief attraction, especially when wet or nude, which she so frequently is. It's a home movie directed and photographed by John Derek and produced by his wife, Bo. ''Tarzan, the Ape Man,'' which opens today at Loews State 2 and other theaters, is not much like any other ''Tarzan'' you've ever seen. She also squeals a lot, as when unfriendly natives strip her, the better to paint her remarkable body in preparation for a fate worse than death. Jane, of course, is equally beautiful, but unfortunately she never stops talking.
Throughout the film, Tarzan never says a word even when he's awake. In that ''getting to know you'' scene described above, Tarzan doesn't answer, but not only because he's unconscious, worn out really, having just saved Jane from the coils of a large, tubular, gaudily painted rubberlike object that in this movie represents a python. Poor Tarzan, once king of the jungle, has been reduced to the status of mere sex object in this latest screen adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs adventure-classic, ''Tarzan, the Ape Man.'' '' For a few moments, it seems as if Jane is about to interfere with Tarzan's loincloth, but this being an R-rated film - instead of an X -and Jane's being a highborn Englishwoman, educated in Victorian ways, she doesn't. ''I suppose,'' she says in so many words, ''that. She watches some cute little chimps frolicking nearby. Are you?''īeing unconscious, Tarzan doesn't answer, and Jane continues to muse about whether or not Tarzan is, well, as intact as she is. ''YOU'RE like something out of a museum,'' says Jane (Bo Derek) as she runs her fingers lightly up and down the length of the perfectly muscled, temporarily unconscious, near-naked form of Tarzan (Miles O'Keeffe), ''but you're real.'' Jane puts a finger prettily to her mouth, as is her wont when something as rare as a thought crosses her mind.
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