The Island of Dr. Moreau PG
A tropical paradise, untouched by man... where a bizarre civilization exists.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 29, 2017
- Originally Released: 1977
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Burt Lancaster & Michael York | |
| Performer: | Barbara Carrera, Nigel Davenport, Richard Basehart, Nick Cravat, Fumio Demura & David Cass | |
| Directed by | Don Taylor | |
| Edited by | Marion Rothman | |
| Screenplay by | Al Ramrus & John Herman Shaner | |
| Original story by | H.G. Wells | |
| Composition by | Laurence Rosenthal | |
| Produced by | John Temple-Smith & Skip Steloff | |
| Director of Photography: | Gerry Fisher | |
| Executive Production by | Samuel Z. Arkoff & Sandy Howard |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3/4 --
Less an exercise in stark horror and moody ambience -- the defining traits of the classic 1932 adaptation Island of Lost Souls, starring Charles Laughton as Dr. Moreau -- and more a straightforward adventure yarn with a sci-fi bent.
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Creative Loafing
It scared the hell out of me and I loved it.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Rating: 4/5 --
There are some really strong performances here and an amazing setting; I think what lets this version down is the element of transformation that has proven troublesome for all the film versions of The Island of Dr. Moreau.
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Den of Geek
...A Saturday night movie that needn't be ashamed to come out the rest of the week....[Carrera is] a sacred mystery of life all by herself.
New York Times
The performers display a kind of disciplined intelligence that keeps them from bursting through the style of the film into comic limbo.
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New York Times
Rating: 1/5 --
Miscast Lancaster fails to be a compelling figure - either tragic or malevolent - and the entire film collapses around him.
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TV Guide
Lancaster, despite his ungodly ideas, is given some resonance as a man who thinks his demented work is for the betterment of the human race. York gives one of his best performances, and Barbara Carrera's enigmatic beauty is evocatively treated.
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Variety
Product Description:
Lancaster gives a memorable performance as the demented Doctor Moreau who performs bizarre genetic experiments on animals--turning them into man-beasts known as humanimals. His experiments continue uninterrupted until a mariner named Braddock shipwrecks on Moreau's island. Shocked by the immoral nature of Moreau's work, Braddock tries to stop the mad Doctor but finds that he has an army of humanimals to reckon with first. Based on H.G. Wells' 1896 novel.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 24,370
- UPC: 887090137119
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