THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE
‘The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe' directed by Luis Bunuel is a 1954 classic movie of Robinson Crusoe who is a man dragged to a desert island after a shipwreck. On 30th September 1659, his ship sinks and he miraculously survives on a deserted island somewhere in South America.
The film contains some of Bunuel’s most potent cinema: the feverish dream sequence where Crusoe’s father chides him for his adventurous, and, therefore, “wayward” spirit; the scene where he is so desperate to hear another human voice he goes to the Valley of the Echo and shouts a Psalm, and then walks in despair into the sea until his torch is extinguished by the waves; and the final scene where, leaving the island at last with Friday, he looks back for the last time, and hears the ghostly echo of his faithful, but long since dead dog, Rex, barking…
Shot in Pathécolor, some of the scenes are beautiful, whilst others could be improved upon, but the sheer drama...