The Gilligan Manifesto (2018)
85 min
At the height of the Cold War, Gilligan's Island depicted seven Americans living in an analogue of a post-apocalyptic world where the survivors have to rebuild civilization. Remarkably, the society they create is pure communist. Interviews with the show's creator and some of the surviving actors, as well from professors from Harvard, reveal that Gilligan's Island was deliberately designed to be dismissed as low brow comedy in order to celebrate Marxism and lampoon Western democratic constructs.
- Release date
- November 16, 2018
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Dawn Wells as Self
- Russell Johnson as Self
- Sherwood Schwartz as Self
- Rennie Davis as Narration
Crew
- Tina Louise · Archive footage
- Jim Backus · Archive footage
- Bob Denver · Archive footage
- Alan Hale Jr. · Archive footage
- Natalie Schafer · Archive footage
- Cevin Soling · Director
- Cevin Soling · Writer
- Cevin Soling · Producer
- Joe Davenport · Editor