Robin Crusoe, the Amazon chief
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Robin Crusoe, the Amazon chief |
| Original title | Lt. Robin Crusoe, USN |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Byron Paul |
| script |
Bill Walsh , Don DaGradi |
| production | Walt Disney |
| music | Robert F. Brunner |
| camera | William E. Snyder |
| cut | Cotton Warburton |
| occupation | |
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Lt. Robin Crusoe is an American comedy film from the year 1966 . The screenplay is based on a story by Walt Disney , which he wrote under the pseudonym Retlaw Yensid (his name read backwards) and takes up motifs from the novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe . The film premiered on June 29, 1966. In Germany it first appeared in cinemas on August 4, 1967.
action
Lieutenant Robin Crusoe is a pilot in the US Navy. On a routine flight over the Pacific, he has to parachute out of his plane. He drifts for days without food or water until he is washed up on a small island. He discovers mysterious footprints that he follows. He discovers a stranded Japanese submarine from WWII and the chimpanzee Floyd. The monkey was shot into space and landed on the island in an accident.
Robin and Floyd stay together and settle down on the island. With the bamboo growing everywhere, they can build everything they need, even a golf course. One day they meet a native woman. Robin calls her Wednesday. She explains to the pilot that her father, the chief of a neighboring island, banned her because she refused to marry a man he had chosen for her. It doesn't take long before other women who have been banished arrive on the island. Robin forms an army out of them. When the chief Tanamashu and his men reach the island in search of the women, a fight ensues between them and the women.
There is a stone idol on the island that the natives worship. With the help of utensils from the submarine, they make the natives believe that the stone idol is angry with the chief and his men. The women celebrate their victory, Robin dances with Wednesday. When he is told that the dance is a marriage vow, Robin and Floyd flee to the beach, which a Navy helicopter is flying over. The two are picked up and flown to an aircraft carrier, where Robin is greeted as a hero.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films describes the film as "[p] arodistically meant, but rather gaudy comedy with only a few funny gags."
The Protestant Film Observer draws the following conclusion: This [...] color film from the Walt Disney workshop [...] comes along with remarkable nonsense and can be dispensed with in every respect.
Awards
Dick Van Dyke was awarded the 1967 Golden Laurel for best actor in a comedy .
background
The film was set in San Diego . The scenes on the aircraft carrier were filmed on the USS Kitty Hawk . The plane Crusoe has to get off was a chance Vought F-8 Crusader .
Peter Ellenshaw and Eustace Lycett took care of the special effects . Animal trainer was the future film director Stewart Raffill .
Web links
- Lt. Robin Crusoe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robin Crusoe, the Amazon chief. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Critique No. 558/1967, p. 707