Robby (film)
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 Robby (Movie Poster) | |
| Year Released: | 1968 |
| MPAA Rating (USA): | NR |
| Director: | Ralph C. Bluemke |
| Starring: | Warren Raum Ryp Siani |
Robby is a 1968 family film written and directed by Ralph C. Bluemke. It is a modern-day retelling of the Daniel Defoe novel Robinson Crusoe in which the main characters are portrayed as children. The film deals with many themes, including friendship, homesickness, racial blindness and naturism. It is unusual for a family film in that it contains extensive nudity.
Plot
A young boy of around 11 years of age shipwrecks on a tropical island and befriends a naked native youth of around the same age, the film contains lots of young nudity and explores social prejudices about race, religion and nudity.
The film opens with a lifeboat washing up onto shore of a tropical island. Inside the lifeboat is nine-year-old Robby. Robby explored the island but finds no signs of any other humans. He falls into a lagoon and almost drowns, but is rescued by a naked native boy, whom Robby befriends and names Friday.[1] Robby questions Friday about his naked state and lack of shame, but it soon becomes quite clear that Friday does not understand English.
It is not long before Robby himself abandons his own clothes and the two friends scamper around the island naked and free without adult supervision. Robby teaches Friday how to speak English, and in turn Friday teaches Robby how to swim. Together, the two boys survive on the island, with only each other to rely on. They build a shelter and fish for sustenance. They are faced with threats of poisonous snakes and cannibals, of which they find evidence in the form of human remains, as well as a stranger who mysteriously appears on their island one night.[2]
Cast
- Ralph C. Bluemke Chauffeur
- John Woodbridge Simmons
- Ryp Siani Friday
- Warren Raum Robby
- Rita ElliotJanet Woodruff
