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The Blue Lagoon (1949)
Director: Frank Launder
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From Time Out Film Guide
Previously an unrealised Carol Reed project, and subsequently a risibly coy teen-sex tease from Randal Kleiser, H de Vere Stacpoole's novel was first filmed by Launder and Gilliat's Individual Pictures, who utilised Technicolor for the first time and split their schedule between Fiji and Pinewood. Stranks and Jones are the child castaways who mature into Simmons and Houston's supposedly unsocialised adolescent lovers on a Pacific paradise. Audiences flocked, as they have since, at the mere promise.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Frank Launder
Producer: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Cast: Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Susan Stranks, Peter Jones, Maurice Denham, Noel Purcell, James Hayter, Cyril Cusack full cast
Duration: 103 mins
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