Word: castaway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of bitter exile on a desert island. At first, Crusoe rejoices in survival itself, then in the happy rescue of guns and supplies from his ship, wrecked on a nearby reef. With the ship's dog and cat, with a home abuilding and goats to tend, the castaway seems secure in his growing self-sufficiency. But fever comes, and he is finally racked by the even greater terrors of loneliness. Director Bunuel and Actor O'Herlihy are particularly fine in picturing the despair of a man alone. The suggestion of it comes in O'Herlihy...
Twining is a man of muscular geniality, hope, luck and an administrative flair as well as a noble, oil-grimed background. During World War II, he was named chief of the Thirteenth Air Force in the South Pacific, distinguished himself not only as a commander but as a castaway-he spent six days on a raft eating raw albatross and being parboiled by the tropic sun after a 6-17 crash at sea, near Espiritu Santo. He went to Italy, where he commanded the Fifteenth Air Force for 20 months, and then came back to the Pacific as commander...
Kazuko was living alone with her second husband, Kikuichiro, on tiny (2 mi. by 5 mi.) Anatahan Island in the Marianas when the survivors of three bombed Japanese ships swam ashore in 1945. For three years the couple lived with the castaways, until one day Kazuko's husband was murdered. "I felt lonely," says Kazuko, and she took up with one of the castaways. After 20 days of bliss, her lover was drowned. She went to live with another, the man who had killed her husband. "At first I repelled him coldly, but a weak woman is no match...
...with the mustache sat down next to me and sighed, and pointed to the fat man. "That's Captain Auten, the owner of the movie. He's very important." The Captain stood up, drummed on the table with the side of his hand, and told a joke about a castaway and six nurses on a desert island. The women laughed and one of them said "isn't he funny...