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Man Friday (1975)

Man Friday (1975)

Comedy Adventure
Release Date: 1975, March 4
Directors: Jack Gold
Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America
Production: Keep Films, ABC Entertainment, ITC Entertainment, AVCO Embassy Pictures, ABC
Cast: Richard Roundtree, Peter O'Toole, Peter Cellier, Stanley Bennett Clay, Joel Fluellen, Christopher Cabot, Sam Seabrook

Overview:

Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles of his own heritage and upbringing and is incapable of seeing Friday as anything other than a savage who needs Crusoe's brand of cultural and religious enlightenment. Friday attempts to share his own more generous and unashamed culture, but ultimately realizes that Crusoe can never see him as anything but an inferior being. With that awareness, Friday sets out to turn the tables on Crusoe.

Keywords:

deserted island