The Blue Lagoon (1949 film)
| The Blue Lagoon | |
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| Directed by | Frank Launder |
| Produced by |
Sidney Gilliat Frank Launder |
| Written by |
Novel: Henry De Vere Stacpoole Screenplay: John Baines Michael Hogan Frank Launder |
| Starring |
Jean Simmons Donald Houston Noel Purcell James Hayter Cyril Cusack |
| Music by | Clifton Parker |
| Cinematography | Geoffrey Unsworth |
| Edited by | Thelma Connell |
| Distributed by |
General Film Distributors (UK) Universal Pictures (USA) |
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Release date
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1 October 1949 |
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Running time
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101 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Blue Lagoon is a 1949 British romance and adventure film produced and directed by Frank Launder, starring Jean Simmons and Donald Houston. The screenplay was adapted by John Baines, Michael Hogan and Frank Launder from the novel The Blue Lagoon by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The original music score was composed by Clifton Parker and the cinematography was by Geoffrey Unsworth.
The film tells the story of two young children shipwrecked on a tropical island paradise in the South Pacific. Emotional feelings and physical changes arise as they grow to maturity and fall in love. The film has major thematic similarities to the Biblical story of Adam and Eve.
In the late Victorian period, 1891, Emmeline Foster and Michael Reynolds, two British children, are the survivors of a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor Paddy Button. Eventually, Paddy dies in a drunken binge, leaving Emmeline and Michael all alone with each other. Together, they survive solely on their resourcefulness, and the bounty of their remote paradise.
8 Years later, Emmeline and Michael become tanned, athletic and nubile young adults. Eventually, their relationship, more along the lines of brother and sister in their youth, blossoms into love, and then passion. Emmeline and Michael have a baby boy, and they live together as common-law husband and wife, content in their solitude. But their marriage is threatened by the arrival of two evil traders, who force the child to dive for pearls at gunpoint, before killing each other off.
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