COLLECTION · Movie · 1975

Man Friday

Based on "Robinson Crusoe", the classic novel by English writer Daniel Defoe, the film tells the story through the eyes of "Friday". Robinson Crusoe's (Peter O'Toole) isolation on the island ends when an indigenous tribesman (Richard Roundtree), the sole survivor of a tribal ritual, arrives. Crusoe names the man "Friday" and takes him on as a servant. Despite their radically different cultures, daily conflicts between the two are inevitable: Robinson wants Friday to learn and adopt his ways, but Friday struggles to forget his origins. However, Friday realizes that to survive in the strange world of the white man, he must act cleverly and comply, at least seemingly, with its norms.