The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1952) starring Dan O'Herlihy. Directed by Luis Bunuel. Sometime in the 1600s, a man named Robinson Crusoe (O'Herlihy) leaves home to sail the seas. Much to his dismay, his ship is blown far off course by a storm, and he is stranded on an uninhabited island. By pluck and quick wits, he manages to survive, and eventually ends up spending 28 years almost completely alone on the island. His only relief from loneliness is his man Friday, a native who shows up on the island about half-way through the film. It's a moderately entertaining movie, although there's only so much you can do with one man cast away, alone on an island. In the end, his exit from the island seemed a bit anticlimactic, and the film overall was kind of a downer. (Captions in English are available for the hearing-impaired.) Grade: B