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Man Friday (1975)

Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles of his own heritage and upbringing and is incapable of seeing Friday as anything other than a savage who needs Crusoe's brand of cultural and religious enlightenment. Friday attempts to share his own more generous and unashamed culture, but ultimately realizes that Crusoe can never see him as anything but an inferior being. With that awareness, Friday sets out to turn the tables on Crusoe.

Release: 1975-03-04
Runtime: 115 min
Rating: 6.9 / 10
Cast
Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole
Robinson Crusoe
Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree
Friday
Peter Cellier
Peter Cellier
Carey
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Christopher Cabot
McBain
Joel Fluellen
Joel Fluellen
Doctor
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Sam Seabrook
Young Girl
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Stanley Bennett Clay
Young Boy