The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977 film)

The Island of Dr. Moreau is a 1977 science fiction film, and is the second Englishlanguage adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel of the same name, a story of a scientist who attempts to convert animals into human beings. The film stars Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera, and Richard Basehart, and is directed by Don Taylor.

Crewman Andrew Braddock York survives the wreck of the sailing ship The Lady Vain. After seventeen days at sea in a lifeboat, he reaches the shores of an island governed by the mysterious scientist Dr. Moreau Lancaster. Besides Moreau, the inhabitants of the island include Moreaus associate, Montgomery Davenport, a mercenary his misshapen servant, MLing Cravat and a ravishing young woman named Maria Carrera.Though welcomed as an honored guest by Moreau, Braddock finds his contact with the natives increasingly disturbing, for they are not like any men he has ever seen before. Eventually, it becomes apparent that these men are, in fact, the hybrid products of Moreaus experiments upon various species of wild animals. Braddock becomes so shocked and curious that Moreau explains to him that he has invented a serum with a genetic human gene that can transform many wild animals into human beings giving them human characteristics. At times the part human part animal hybrids still have their animal instincts and dont quite behave like a human which sometimes enrages Moreau feeling that his experiments hasnt worked successfully. Braddock finds himself threatened by both the manimals and their sinister creator. ........

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