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THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU

1977 US HMDB
July 13, 1977

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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Production: Skip Steloff (Producer)Samuel Z. Arkoff (Executive Producer)John Temple-Smith (Producer)Sandy Howard (Executive Producer)
Screenplay: Al Ramrus (Screenplay)John Herman Shaner (Screenplay)
Music: Laurence Rosenthal (Original Music Composer)
Cinematography: Gerry Fisher (Director of Photography)

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Marco Castellini
A mad scientist living on a lonely island tries, through monstrous genetic experiments, to make animals "human". The result is catastrophic and it will be the scientist himself who suffers the consequences. A classic of fantasy-horror (even if it's more of an adventure film than a real horror) based on the novel by H.G. Wells. Starring Burt Lancaster (as the mad scientist), and directed with a steady hand by Don Taylor, the film is more than enjoyable even if, to the modern viewer, the special effects used to depict the mutation of the animals may seem frankly ridiculous. Worth watching, perhaps more suitable for a "mature" audience.
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6 /10

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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