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The Blue Lagoon is a 1949 British romance/adventure film produced and directed by Frank Launder, starring Jean Simmons and Donald Houston. The plot is about two young children who are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. Emotional feelings and physical changes arise as they grow to maturity and fall in love. The film is adapted by John Baines, Michael Hogan and Frank Launder from the novel The Blue Lagoon by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The original music score is composed by Clifton Parker.

Plot summary

In the Victorian period, Emmeline Foster and Michael Reynolds (Simmons and Houston), two British children, are shipwrecked on a lush tropical island. They are marooned and cared for in the company of kindly old sailor Paddy Button (Purcell). Eventually Paddy dies, leaving Emmeline and Michael, now attractively grown up, all alone with each other. They survive solely on their resourceful ways and the bounty of their remote paradise. Years pass and both Emmeline and Michael become nubile young adults, tanned to a flawless bronze, and fitter than Olympic gymnasts. Eventually their raging hormones lead the two young castaways into each other's arms. Their relationship, more along the lines of brother and sister in their youth, blossoms into love, and then passion. Emmeline and Michael have their baby boy, and they live together as common-law husband and wife, content in their solitude. But Emmeline and Michael's union is threatened by the arrival of two evil traders (Hayter and Cusack), who force the boy to dive for pearls at gunpoint before killing each other off.

Trivia

This film was remade in 1980
starring Brooke Shields
and Christopher Atkins
. The updated version of The Blue Lagoon
, directed by Randal Kleiser, featured a great deal of nudity and sexual content not found in this original version.
The updated version was followed in 1991
by the sequel Return to the Blue Lagoon
, starring Milla Jovovich
and Brian Krause
. The sequel bears a strong similarity to the original film, also directed by Randal Kleiser.
This film was shot on location at Pinewood Studios
, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England.

Cast

Jean Simmons
- Emmeline Foster
Donald Houston
- Michael Reynolds
Susan Stranks - Emmeline (younger)
Peter Jones
- Michael (younger)
Noel Purcell
- Paddy Button
James Hayter
- Dr. Murdock
Cyril Cusack
- James Carter
Nora Nicholson - Mrs. Stannard
Maurice Denham
- Ship's Captain
Phillip Stainton - Mr. Ansty
Patrick Barr
- Second Mate
Lyn Evans - Trotter
Russell Waters
- Craggs
John Boxer - Nick Corbett
Bill Raymond - Marsden
Gladys Boot (uncredited)

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