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Man Friday
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Title: Man Friday

Release Date: 4 Mar 1975

Runtime: 1h 55m

Genre: Adventure, Comedy

Director: Keep Films, ABC Entertainment, ITC Entertainment, AVCO Embassy Pictures, ABC

Production Companies: Keep Films, ABC Entertainment, ITC Entertainment, AVCO Embassy Pictures, ABC

Overview: 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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.839 (28 votes)

Cast

  • Robinson Crusoe: Peter O'Toole
  • Friday: Richard Roundtree
  • Carey: Peter Cellier
  • McBain: Christopher Cabot
  • Doctor: Joel Fluellen
  • Young Girl: Sam Seabrook
  • Young Boy: Stanley Bennett Clay
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