The Blue Lagoon (1949)
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Henry Devere Stacpoole's lyrical novel The Blue Lagoon was rather chastely filmed in 1921. The 1949 remake is a tad more explicit, though it's hardly as racy as the 1980 Brooke Shields version. Two British children, Emmeline (Susan Stranks) and Michael (Peter Jones), are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the company of kindly old salt Paddy Button (Noel Purcell). Eventually, Paddy dies, leaving Emmeline and Michael, now attractively grown up and played by Jean Simmons and Donald Houston, all alone. Their relationship, more along the lines of brother and sister in their youth, blossoms into love, and then passion. Emmeline has a baby, and the two live as common-law husband and wife, content in their solitude..until.. Filmed in lush Technicolor, The Blue Lagoon was considered fairly exotic and somewhat risque back in 1949, though by current standards the film is a model of decorum. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Jean Simmons - Emmeline Foster
- Susan Stranks - Emmeline, as a child
- James Hayter - Dr. Murdoch
- Cyril Cusack - James Catter
- Maurice Denham - Ship Captain
- Patrick Barr - Second Mate
- Russell Waters - Craggs
- Bill Raymond - Marsden
- Donald Houston - Michael Reynolds
- Noel Purcell - Paddy Button
- Peter Jones - Michael, as a child
- Nora Nicholson - Mrs. Stannard
- Philip Stainton - Mr. Ansty
- Lynn Evans - Trotter
- John Boxer - Nick Corbett
- Gladys Boot
- Director(s):
- Frank Launder
- Writer(s):
- Frank Launder, John V. Baines, Michael Hogan
- Producer(s):
- Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
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