A remarkably straightforward adaptation - aside from a single fever dream sequence. Though - a single footprint in the sand? Is that silliness or surrealism?
Dan O'Herlihy is the shipwrecked man who spends the first 18 years on the island alone, then rescues a cannibal (Jaime Fernandez) who becomes his slave, then friend ("Some day, if you're good, I'll teach you to smoke").
Nice looking colour Mexican-US co-production, photographed by Alex Phillips in Mexico.
Liked the very ending - Crusoe thinks he can hear the barks of his long gone faithful hound (cunningly named 'Rex').
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