Truly Terrible


Anyone who thinks that Brooke Shields was not a good actress as a teenager will change their mind after watching this adaptation.

The music is migraine-inducing, the cinematography is murky, the screenplay is boring, Donald Huston is playing twenty and looks thirty-five, Jean Simmons' costume changes were unnecessary, and her petulance wore thin after a few scenes.I was bored.

The little boy who played their son was adorable.My rating of #1 is for him.

The Randall Kleiser version still holds up after THIRTY-FIVE years ! Of, course, Brooke is beautiful and the scenery is gorgeous, the soaring romantic score, the story that involves you and takes you away, and the casting was just right.I would watch it again tomorrow but the 1949 version, never again.
Even Return to the Blue Lagoon was not this bad.(although, it's pretty bad.)


Rescue the damsel in distress, whip the bad guy, save the world.

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I don't know where you saw the movie, but the technicolor film was brilliant. There is a terrible version on Youtube which appears to be a copy of a copy of a VHS copy and yes, the picture is dreadful. Donald Houston was 25 when he appeared in the film not 35. Michael was 10 when shipwrecked, but it was never clear how long they had been on the island. As for the remake with the petulant sour faced Brooke shields, we all have our own opinion.

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It was not truly clear but Michael states to those men that come on the island they have been there 10 years and then tells them he was 10 when they got on the island and she was 9 so that made them 20 and 19. Now of course his counting of the moons as he stated may not have been exactly a year so that would be the only reason it would not be clear.

As far as Brooke, I like her. I know at that time of her youth and in various movies during her childhood her acting was not very good, but later she did grow as an actress and I have seen her do some good things. If she had the acting maturity she later had she would have been better in the role. As far as Chris though wow I loved his portrayal and for his first movie that is pretty awesome

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