Man Friday

Mar 4, 1975

1h 55m

★ 6.9

Overview

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.

Genres

Adventure

Comedy

Production Companies

Keep Films

ABC Entertainment

ITC Entertainment

AVCO Embassy Pictures

ABC

Man Friday Trailers

Cast

Robinson Crusoe

Peter O'Toole

Friday

Richard Roundtree

Carey

Peter Cellier

McBain

Christopher Cabot

Doctor

Joel Fluellen

Young Girl

Sam Seabrook

Young Boy

Stanley Bennett Clay

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