Underplayed Gems

The Blue Lagoon (1923)

The Blue Lagoon poster
Directed by
Dick Cruikshanks
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 41m
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Two children are stranded on a tropical island and grow up there alone. The film follows their lives as they learn to survive and discover themselves without outside society.

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What happens

The Blue Lagoon is a lost 1923 British-South African silent film adaptation of Henry De Vere Stacpoole's 1908 novel of the same name about children who come of age while stranded on a tropical island. It is the first screen adaptation of the story, and two additional adaptations appeared in 1949 and 1980, with both versions achieving commercial success. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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