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Wonderfully offbeat film!

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

In 1659, while sailing to obtain slaves from Africa, English adventurer Daniel O'Herlihy (as Robinson Crusoe) is shipwrecked in the Atlantic Ocean. Fortunately, he is very resourceful and swims to a relatively safe and productive island. Also surviving are a dog and cat. As the years pass, the castaway grows increasingly lonely. Darker-skinned cannibals visit the island and Mr. O'Herlihy adopts Jaime Fernandez as a servant. Assuming the younger man arrived for the weekend, O'Herlihy names him "Friday". O'Herlihy wants a slave companion, but is afraid "Friday" might eat him. He's a cannibal, remember...This relatively ordinary film was directed by Luis Bunuel, who is not known for being ordinary. There are a few intriguing moments, but Mr. Bunuel is undeniably subdued. Race, class and the culture of slavery are white-washed. Religion is slighted. Sex is short-sighted. You can find more passion in Daniel Defoe's original novel. Perhaps the film's backers told Bunuel to keep it at arm's length; if so, he is quite successful. The best scenes involve the dog and Mr. Fernandez. The latter is always threatening to kick the story up a notch, especially when he puts on a dress and quizzes O'Herlihy on God and the Devil.****** Robinson Crusoe (6/54) Luis Bunuel ~ Dan O'Herlihy, Jaime Fernandez, Felipe de Alba, Chel Lopez

It's been a very long time since I read Daniel Defoe's novel "Robinson Crusoe," so a good deal of the story matter in the movie seemed relatively fresh to me, although from what I do remember of it the movie is a pretty good adaptation of the novel. It revolves around the most obvious theme of loneliness, as Crusoe deals with life on this deserted island, with only a dog and a cat who also survived the shipwreck as his companions. As such, the movie has every now and then some spiritual reflections (not surprising, since Defoe himself was a Christian and a religious "dissenter") as Crusoe also finds himself having to make peace with God. For the most part all that was well portrayed by Daniel O'Herlihy, who for the majority of the movie is putting on a one man show.One thing that I thought was lacking in this, though (and it's a significant weakness) is any real sense of emotion. Much of the story of Crusoe's time alone on the island is told by a rather cold narration of Defoe's writing, and that basically matched the overall emotional feel of the movie. It was well filmed, and it did a decent enough job of portraying Crusoe's struggles and adjustments, but O'Herlihy never really drew me in to the character and never gave me any feel for him. To be perfectly honest, the only real sense of emotion I got from this revolved around Rex, the dog - his death and the last shots of the film. I admit that as Crusoe walked toward the boat that would finally rescue him I thought "aren't you even going to go to Rex's grave to say good bye?" So the last shot (of Crusoe looking back at the island from the boat and hearing Rex's bark) hit a bit of a nerve with me.Otherwise, it's a technically well made movie; just surprisingly lacking in real feeling. (5/10)

Well of course I'm not talking about Robinson (he's actually quite "alone" most of the time, as you surely know), but about the movie adaptation. There have been quite a few (even the Tom Hanks starring "Cast Away" can be counted in, if you want to), so why is this different and/or better? Well the thing is, that this movie sure worked when it came out, with some very nice dialog, some funny scenes and a great central performance. The question remains, how this will be received by an audience that is more than well aware of the Robinson story. Will they be bored? I guess some might and probably will find the movie somewhat boring. Not me though. Mr. Bunuel shows again, what he's made of. And while this isn't his best work or anywhere near that, this is more than entertaining (with a few stabs at the church/God). You might know the story, you might have watched others play Robinson, but this (a bit camp) movie is worth your time!

A surprisingly straightforward adaptation of Defoe's classic novel from cinema's master of the surreal, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is firstly in need of a spruce up as the print I saw was blurry to the point of distraction.Journeyman actor Dan O'Herlihy in the role of Crusoe is naturally called upon to carry the film and he pretty much delivers the kind of performance you'd expect a journeyman actor to deliver; bland, unremarkable but inoffensive. He sucks in his tummy so that his rib cage juts out like the prow of a boat, while his louche character shows a surprising aptitude for survival given that he never engaged in any kind of physical labour prior to his calamitous voyage – which, Bunuel suggests, was undertaken with the object of securing slaves for sale back in the homeland.Some of the scenery, filmed presumably on the Mexican coastline, is breathtaking (even if it is blurry), and provides an engaging diversion when the film plods, which it does for much of the time. We see Crusoe salvaging materials from the wreckage of the ill-fated ship, building a shelter, fetching water, puzzling over how the island's sole cat managed to get herself pregnant, baking bread, getting drunk and a little teary-eyed. It's all a little hum-drum to be honest (although the scene where Crusoe, in the grip of loneliness, shouts into a valley just to hear a human voice – his own – speak back to him, is a memorable moment), but things do at least pick up a bit when Man Friday washes up on the coast, intended as the main course of the cannibals who live on the neighbouring island (who obviously felt like grabbing a takeaway to eat out that day).This being a Bunuel film, there's obviously stuff going on under the surface, much of it to do with the nature of Crusoe's relationship with – and eventual questioning of – God, and for what purpose he has been set down on a godforsaken island in the middle of nowhere; a sexual undercurrent is also present – let's face it, after 28 years it would be unnatural if it wasn't – Crusoe dresses his scarecrow in a woman's dress and then longingly fondles its hem and then, when Friday innocently dons it as a hunting garb, staunchly resists the homo-erotic temptation that is (rather timidly – this is the fifties, after all) thrown in his path. And, this being a Bunuel film, we are of course treated to a somewhat surreal hallucination sequence suffered by Crusoe as he lies sick in his shelter.More an interesting curio than a work of much worth, it's a film that's worth watching simply for its rarity value.