This movie is so incredibly dated, it is comical, and I enjoyed it for that reason.
Doug Fairbanks and his buddies are out wasting months of their lives ending the lives of Sumatran tigers (now nearly extinct), but on their way to Sumatra, Doug gets the bright idea to maroon himself on an island with nothing but a toothbrush (which he exchanges for a dog, because Robinson Crusoe had a dog). He jumps overboard and swims to shore, and somewhere off camera there must have been a Dyson air-dryer because when he arrives, he's miraculously dry, and his white shirt is crisp and clean. Cut to a month later and Doug's been hard at work building an elaborate bungalow, but there must be a quarry of Clorox bleach there because his shirt is still crisp and clean as the day he bought it.
He is completely alone on the island, but on a nearby beach a native girl refuses to marry because she doesn't want her front teeth knocked out (a custom among her people). We catch a few glimpses of her completely topless, mostly through the reflection in the moving water as she's prepared for marriage. (Doug and Maria Alba took up together during the filming of this movie, and one wonders if he sat in the audience elbowing his buddies as they watched this scene whispering, "Look at what I got!") She escapes and paddles over to Doug's island, but she's quickly caught in one of his animal traps. He hurries to her rescue and she's conveniently knocked out, so he carries her to his bungalow. She awakens and thinks nothing of the fact that he's built this very western abode filled with devices she no doubt has no knowledge of. So what catches her attention? This must be a bachelor's apartment, as there are dirty "dishes" in the sink. What is a woman to do when she sees such disarray? Wash them of course! The ridiculousness of the plot keeps coming as the natives that Doug's girl "Saturday" escaped from find their way to the island and try to kill Doug. But he foils them alright. He snatches bunches of bananas from the trees and splays the peels out over their path, and down they go! Cinevent 2014 screened silent version of this film, which is rarer than the dubbed over talkie, but it is full of sound effects. According to the program notes, the talkie version is even worse than this one. Woof!
Doug Fairbanks and his buddies are out wasting months of their lives ending the lives of Sumatran tigers (now nearly extinct), but on their way to Sumatra, Doug gets the bright idea to maroon himself on an island with nothing but a toothbrush (which he exchanges for a dog, because Robinson Crusoe had a dog). He jumps overboard and swims to shore, and somewhere off camera there must have been a Dyson air-dryer because when he arrives, he's miraculously dry, and his white shirt is crisp and clean. Cut to a month later and Doug's been hard at work building an elaborate bungalow, but there must be a quarry of Clorox bleach there because his shirt is still crisp and clean as the day he bought it.
He is completely alone on the island, but on a nearby beach a native girl refuses to marry because she doesn't want her front teeth knocked out (a custom among her people). We catch a few glimpses of her completely topless, mostly through the reflection in the moving water as she's prepared for marriage. (Doug and Maria Alba took up together during the filming of this movie, and one wonders if he sat in the audience elbowing his buddies as they watched this scene whispering, "Look at what I got!") She escapes and paddles over to Doug's island, but she's quickly caught in one of his animal traps. He hurries to her rescue and she's conveniently knocked out, so he carries her to his bungalow. She awakens and thinks nothing of the fact that he's built this very western abode filled with devices she no doubt has no knowledge of. So what catches her attention? This must be a bachelor's apartment, as there are dirty "dishes" in the sink. What is a woman to do when she sees such disarray? Wash them of course! The ridiculousness of the plot keeps coming as the natives that Doug's girl "Saturday" escaped from find their way to the island and try to kill Doug. But he foils them alright. He snatches bunches of bananas from the trees and splays the peels out over their path, and down they go! Cinevent 2014 screened silent version of this film, which is rarer than the dubbed over talkie, but it is full of sound effects. According to the program notes, the talkie version is even worse than this one. Woof!