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Article: Robinson Crusoe.(Video Recording Review)
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- March 22, 2005
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Produced by Oscar Dancigers; directed by Luis Bunuel; screenplay by Bunuel and Hugo Butler, from the novel by Daniel Defoe; starring Dan O'Herlihy and Jaime Fernandez. DVD, color, 90 mins. A VCI Entertainment release.
This DVD edition of Luis Bunuel's 1952 film is welcome, not least because of its absence from distribution and availability for most of the last fifty years. Bunuel made twenty films in Mexico between 1946 and 1965, before he returned to the European arena where he had first come to world attention in the late Twenties and early Thirties. Robinson Crusoe (originally The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe) was a Mexican-American co-production, made in ...