Man Friday (1975)
115 min
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 date
- March 5, 1976
- Country of origin
- United States, United Kingdom
Trailer
Cast
- Peter O'Toole as Robinson Crusoe
- Richard Roundtree as Friday
- Peter Cellier as Carey
- Christopher Cabot as McBain
- Joel Fluellen as Doctor
- Sam Seabrook as Young Girl
- Stanley Bennett Clay as Young Boy
- Conrad Hool as Slave Master
Crew
- Jack Gold · Director
- Daniel Defoe · Writer
- Adrian Mitchell · Writer
- Jules Buck · Producer
- Gerald Green · Producer
- David Korda · Producer
- Carl Davis · Composer
- Álex Phillips Jr. · Cinematographer
- Anne V. Coates · Editor
- Peter Murton · Production designer