Quality: Tarzanxshameofjane1995engl Work High
Because Tarzan x Shame of Jane was never given a mainstream DVD or Blu-ray release in English-speaking territories, "high quality" is a relative term. For a film of this provenance, high quality is defined by three criteria:
Set shortly after the original Tarzan of the Apes (1912), Jane is back in England. She has rejected Tarzan’s proposal due to societal pressure. However, she cannot sleep, eat, or function. Her “shame” manifests as obsessive flashbacks of Tarzan’s body, his killing, his scent—things her culture labels savage.
The story alternates between:
Climax: Jane hallucinates Tarzan tearing through her London bedroom. The final panel shows her realizing she is not ashamed of him, but of her own animal nature. She chooses to return to Africa—not as a missionary, but as a mate.
Rodi uses Jane’s internal monologue to dissect how Victorian England taught women to hate their own desires. Every memory of Tarzan’s touch is immediately followed by a wave of self-disgust. The “shame” is not his—it is the culture’s projected onto her. tarzanxshameofjane1995engl work high quality
“I am not ashamed of loving a man who walks like a leopard. I am ashamed of the England that taught me to call that love a sin.”
— Jane Porter, internal monologue, page 18
“He has no word for ‘shame’. He does not know how to hide his body or his want. I have a thousand words for it. And all of them are lies.”
— Page 24 Because Tarzan x Shame of Jane was never
The European theatrical cut runs 92 minutes. The US "adult video" edit cuts 14 minutes of dialogue-heavy shame sequences. The high-quality version is the complete 92-minute work with the shame monologues intact.
For its budget and era, the film exhibits noteworthy technical competence: Climax: Jane hallucinates Tarzan tearing through her London