Alexander Selkirk


This film should have been called Alexander Selkirk, as Selkirk was a Scotsman, and Crusoe according to Defoe's book was an Englishman from Norfolk! He didn't kill a man over a girl, and he most certainly did not play the bagpipes!
Defoe was only supposed to get the idea for the book after hearing of Selkirk's two year stay on a Pacific Island, after being stranded due to a difference of opinion with his captain. Crusoe's island was somewhere near the estuary of the Amazon in the Atlantic. Why were we subjected to that not very good Scotish accent? Low score for the plot, high for the great scenery.

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