This colourful film plays a novel variation on Defoe's classic tale of life on a desert island. It supposes that Friday (Richard Roundtree), instead of being taught by Crusoe (O'Toole), contrives, by craft and patience, to reverse the situation so that Crusoe learns a basic way of life from him, each assimilating the best of one another's culture. The setting is attractive, the performances appealing and the situations, particularly a sports day, are often amusing. Only in the last 10 minutes does it veer off line and seem to go a bit to pieces.

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