The Blue Lagoon (1980 film)
The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 American romantic adventure drama film directed by Randal Kleiser and filmed on Turtle Island Fiji. The screenplay by Douglas Day Stewart was based on the novel The Blue Lagoon by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The film stars Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins. The original music score was composed by Basil Poledouris and the cinematography was by Nstor Almendros. The film is a remake of a 1949 film by the same name.
In the Victorian period, two young cousins, Richard and Emmeline Lestrange, and a galley cook, Paddy Button Leo McKern, survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific and reach a lush tropical island. Paddy cares for the small children and forbids them by law from going to the other side of the island, as he found evidence of remains of bloody human sacrifices. He also warns them against eating a scarlet berry which is apparently deadly.Paddy soon dies after a drunken binge, and his body is discovered by Richard and Emmeline. Now alone, the children go to another part of the island and rebuild their home. ........
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