One Third Treasure Island and one third Blue Lagoon, and one third Robinson Crusoe, The Little Savage for the most part features only the marooned Pedro Armendariz as a pirate captain whose second mate has abandoned him on a deserted uninhabited island in the 18th century Caribbean. It's Rodolfo Hoyos who's done Armendariz wrong, yet Armendariz is on the island where the pirate loot is buried, but he doesn't know where it is.
He's also not alone, he has 10 year old Terry Rangno on there as well. And they're stuck there for the duration.
So it's Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins who kind of take to each other in much the same fashion as Robert Louis Stevenson's characters do. And in that tropic paradise along comes Christiane Martel to teach the grown Rangno, now played by Robert Palmer the facts of life. I imagine none too soon because if I had been stuck those many years as Armendariz I might have gotten ideas.
Of course in the end Hoyos and Armendariz do have a reckoning as you might have figured they would.
Production values are on the cheap, they should have sprung for color cinematography so at least you could have a lovely view of a tropic Caribbean isle. The Blue Lagoon angle renders this one kind of unsuitable for family viewing. Adults might find it titillating but that's all.
He's also not alone, he has 10 year old Terry Rangno on there as well. And they're stuck there for the duration.
So it's Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins who kind of take to each other in much the same fashion as Robert Louis Stevenson's characters do. And in that tropic paradise along comes Christiane Martel to teach the grown Rangno, now played by Robert Palmer the facts of life. I imagine none too soon because if I had been stuck those many years as Armendariz I might have gotten ideas.
Of course in the end Hoyos and Armendariz do have a reckoning as you might have figured they would.
Production values are on the cheap, they should have sprung for color cinematography so at least you could have a lovely view of a tropic Caribbean isle. The Blue Lagoon angle renders this one kind of unsuitable for family viewing. Adults might find it titillating but that's all.