Burt Lancaster
Dr. Paul Moreau
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A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.
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| Release Date | 1977-07-13 |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 1h 39m |
| Director | Don Taylor |
| Producers | Sandy Howard, John Temple-Smith, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Skip Steloff |
| Writers | H.G. Wells, Al Ramrus, John Herman Shaner |
A typically unremarkable Michael York is shipwrecked onto a tropical island populated by Burt Lancaster and a rather motley collection of people and mutated people/animals. These are the results of the doctor's experiments over the years, as he has tried to create a perfect creature. Time hasn't been kind to this; the effects are straight out of "Planet of the Apes" but Lancaster is quite sinister as the obsessed "Dr. Moreau". Keep an eye out for Lancaster's long-term acrobatic buddy Nick Cravat who turns up as "M'Ling". I recall seeing this at the cinema when I was 10 (or so) and the final scene has stuck in my mind ever since.
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