Luis Buñuel's "Robinson Crusoe" (1954) - based on Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:00]Heat.

[00:00:18]Heat.

[00:00:24]Heat. Heat.

[00:00:47]Heat up here.

[00:01:31]Being the third son of a good family and not educated to any trade, my head began to be filled early with thoughts of leaving England to see the world and thus against the will nay the commands of my father. I broke loose and went to see.

[00:01:53]How true my father's prophecy of disaster. For not long after, being in the latitude of 12° 18 minutes, bound for Africa to buy negro slaves for my fellow planters in the Brazils, a violent tornado came upon us, which carried us westward, far out of the way of all human commerce. Heat.

[00:02:25]Heat.

[00:02:33]Yeah.

[00:02:43]Heat.

[00:03:05]Heat.

[00:03:11]Heat.

[00:04:37]My only possession, my only weapon.

[00:05:40]I awoke refreshed yet half perished with hungerous thirsty without provisions with little hope of survival, I set out to survey my fate.

[00:06:39]No other land in sight. I was on an island environ by the sea.

[00:07:29]The wreck of our ship is stranded during the night.

[00:08:37]Watch out.

[00:09:11]Hey, Hey, Sam.

[00:10:42]She might slip from the rock. I must contrive a raft and try to save her precious supplies.

[00:10:50]I plundered from the wreck many chests with all manner of clothes, tallow, romp, gunpowder, the carpenters's tools, and scores of other most useful articles. Not to forget their fellow survivor, Sam.

[00:11:32]gold yet what used to However, on second thoughts Tinder, steel, flint, fire, fire worth more to me than all the gold in the world.

[00:12:31]how often I'd seen my servants do this.

[00:12:33]Yet I, a master to servants, couldn't even build my own fire.

[00:13:18]Rex.

[00:13:21]Rex, you're alive. You're alive, too, Rex.

[00:13:39]What was that, Rex?

[00:13:48]What is it?

[00:14:04]She was gone. That fearful sound had been the death cry of our poor ship. I regretted all iron work, cables, and lead that had gone down with her.

[00:14:17]Rats.

[00:14:19]The only things from the ship I did not want to show No ship would sail by without my knowledge. I kept dry branches ready to flame into a mighty beacon.

[00:15:02]My days were hurried, crowded with all manner of urgent tasks. The most urgent of all was to secure myself against both wild beasts and savages.

[00:15:22]Meanwhile, the rains approached, and needing a store room for all my supplies, I found a place where the earth was easiest and started to dig a cave. As I had never before so much as handled an axe, or for that matter any other kind of tool, I was but a very sorry workman, and all this cost me a great deal of time.

[00:16:24]I became a passible good shot, and with good cause, for my constant, hard manual labor gave me a most voracious appetite.

[00:16:36]The green coconut and his milk I found to be most wholesome, cool, and refreshing.

[00:16:44]My 11th month. Days passed in hunting wild fowl, preparing food, trips to my lookout hill to search for sight of ships. One day much like another, uneventful, and I'm sick.

[00:17:04]Chills.

[00:17:07]Fever getting worse.

[00:17:28]Oh, help.

[00:17:53]Help me.

[00:17:57]Come on.

[00:18:02]Come on.

[00:18:38]In this second sleep, I had this terrible dream.

[00:18:45]>> You here, father?

[00:18:50]Yes, here.

[00:18:56]Not there, but here.

[00:19:00]Where else would I be? Are you not here?

[00:19:03]Yeah.

[00:19:06]>> How did you get here, >> my boy? You should not leave your naked country at my house with your dear mother and me. You have the very best of all possible worlds.

[00:19:23]>> Yes. Yes. I remember all you told me.

[00:19:26]You're right.

[00:19:29]Give me water.

[00:19:30]>> At home you are well off. saved the miseries of labor and the hardships of mankind's lower estate, nor yet embarrassed by the pride, envy, luxury, and ambition of its upper state.

[00:19:48]>> Water, give me water.

[00:19:52]>> Ours is the middle station of life, my boy. The middle station. Even kings would have envied you. Admit that now.

[00:19:58]Admit it.

[00:20:04]Will you not help me? I want water.

[00:20:09]Why did you fling yourself into this stupid adventure?

[00:20:14]Did you not know that your mother and I were praying that God would not separate us from you?

[00:20:24]You were always weward.

[00:20:26]>> Water. Bring me water.

[00:20:33]Your mother and I will forgive you. But remember, God will not forgive you.

[00:21:05]He will not forgive you. You will die like a dog. You will die.

[00:21:12]>> I will die.

[00:21:16]I will die.

[00:21:36]I awoke weak yet clear of head. Whether I had slept for one whole day or more, I could never be certain. But my first thought was for water.

[00:22:24]Did not the Brazilians have some physic to prevent recurrence of fevers?

[00:22:29]Of course. Tobacco mixed in rum.

[00:23:21]In that chest, I found a cure for both body and soul.

[00:23:36]Come to me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

[00:23:45]Yes, it's true.

[00:23:48]Only he can deliver me from this place.

[00:24:04]I now respect the Sabbath and so mark that day differently from all others.

[00:24:30]The last of it, Rex.

[00:24:33]Now to be denied the staff of life.

[00:24:51]I recalled a grass I had observed to sprout and start to grow. Grain, that which in England we call corn, and in the new world they call wheat. Some few seeds must have come ashore with me from the ship. With the Lord's help, I could try to raise a crop.

[00:25:11]Meanwhile, I set out to make a more perfect discovery of my domain.

[00:25:23]I found great amounts of cocoa, orange and lemon trees, sugar cane, tobacco, and banana.

[00:25:35]I discovered the turtle, which furnishes an abundance of savory flesh, great quantities of most useful shell.

[00:25:47]and even turtle eggs.

[00:25:52]Also that other sea beast, the octopus, which they say some peoples have the fortitude to eat, parrots, which were known to me, and other birds which were foreign, animals I did not recognize, and those I did, goats.

[00:27:03]It was a most unusually clear day.

[00:27:07]Land. Could I not hack out a canoe, sail to it?

[00:27:22]I hewed out a tiny sailing canoe, was swept out to sea by some great current.

[00:27:28]Thanks only to a sudden gale of wind was I even fortunate enough to get back on shore.

[00:27:35]In other ventures, I was more successful.

[00:28:04]pretty on my finger pal.

[00:28:10]Call Rex. Here, Rex. Come here, Rex.

[00:28:12]Call.

[00:28:29]>> Tell me only this. Where did you find their father?

[00:28:33]Do you know?

[00:28:41]The one mystery of the island I never solved.

[00:28:47]Due to sewing during dry season, first half of seed complete loss. Second half now in ground. Hope for best.

[00:29:00]Yet, just as it seemed the best would come to pass, and I might finally triumph over the sun, the rain, I was threatened by a new enemy. The birds, they came down on my field like a plague, a ruthless, devouring army.

[00:29:17]I fought for the wheat as though it were my life. Used every weapon to frighten and kill.

[00:30:40]Hungry Rex, you can wag your tail.

[00:30:49]But you cannot talk to me.

[00:31:06]5 years.

[00:31:09]The fifth anniversary of the day I landed.

[00:31:14]>> Time to celebrate.

[00:31:19]I can't even do it. Do you know I did?

[00:31:40]This is a day.

[00:31:42]A day.

[00:31:44]What a day this is.

[00:31:50]I have nothing further to say.

[00:32:07]My friends, >> my old friends we have.

[00:32:28]>> I remember you all.

[00:32:34]Hooray for breakfast.

[00:32:46]>> From here, they'll only take a stand.

[00:32:49]>> They keep us together, stuck one to another >> until the resurrection.

[00:32:59]Here I am sing down among the dead.

[00:33:54]At last, a full harvest Now it could be truly said, I worked for my bread.

[00:34:43]Pedicate. Pedake. Bakers. Bakers. Man, bake me a cake just as fast as you can.

[00:34:57]Be patient, Rex.

[00:35:06]>> Sing for your supper, foul.

[00:35:24]unleavened coarse burn the most delicious meal of my life.

[00:35:34]I built a bar so that I fancied now I was lord of the whole manor and had my country house and my sea coast house too. I perfected myself in old tasks and was forced to learn new ones. In short, I learned to master everything in my island except myself.

[00:35:55]For sometimes in the midst of my work, the anguish of my soul at my loneliness would break out upon me like a storm.

[00:36:04]Escape. No matter the dangers, I must do something to escape this tomb.

[00:36:11]This prison.

[00:36:16]My heart died within me.

[00:36:19]Alone.

[00:36:22]Alone.

[00:36:25]Forever alone.

[00:36:28]I was a prisoner locked up by the eternal bars and bolts of the ocean.

[00:36:52]Days became weeks, weeks became months, months became years.

[00:37:01]I quite gave up looking to see for ships. In time, my linen clothes rotted.

[00:37:06]My cats all ran wild. My faithful dog, weakened by age, could no longer keep up with the hunt he so dearly loved.

[00:37:14]>> Rex.

[00:37:16]Rex.

[00:37:19]>> What's wrong?

[00:37:22]>> Rex.

[00:38:01]Come on, boy. Eat, Rex. Eat.

[00:38:05]Poor Rex. Poor boy.

[00:38:17]Would you like a tasty? A dove? A pigeon's egg? Huh?

[00:38:25]Now you just wait there for me.

[00:39:30]here.

[00:39:32]Here it now truly alone, starved for the sound of another voice, any voice, I would rush to My Valley of the Echo.

[00:40:12]>> The Lord >> The Lord >> is my shepherd.

[00:40:18]>> is my shepherd is my shepherd.

[00:40:22]>> I shall not want.

[00:40:24]>> I shall not want. I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

[00:40:34]>> He leadth methade >> beside still waters still waters still waters.

[00:40:44]>> He resto >> He restore >> my soul.

[00:40:49]>> My soul my soul >> my soul.

[00:41:06]Dreadful fancies possessed my mind. I fought to save my sanity.

[00:41:21]Lie down in green pastures.

[00:41:25]He leadth me beside still waters. He restoreth my soul, green pastures, green pastures. The scriptures came meaningless to my eyes. The world seemed but a whirling ball, its oceans and continents a green scum, and myself of no purpose, of no meaning.

[00:42:34]Heat. Heat.

[00:42:37]Had anyone in England met such an odd creature as I was in my 18th year of solitude, it must either have frightened them or caused a great deal of laughter.

[00:43:14]Ah, my little friends.

[00:43:18]Yes.

[00:43:20]I don't know what to call you, but you are my little friends, aren't you?

[00:43:28]And I just you wait there in your homes and I'll feed you.

[00:43:33]You're hungry, too, aren't you?

[00:43:36]Yes.

[00:43:38]Here's a monster for you. Eh, there.

[00:43:45]Go on. Get him. Get him. Get him. Get him. Get.

[00:43:58]Goodbye.

[00:44:03]Goodbye.

[00:44:34]Heat. Heat.

[00:45:27]Condemned to all those years of loneliness, now trembling at the very apprehension of seeing another human.

[00:45:42]How mad men are possessed by fear.

[00:45:46]I even scattered my tame kettle so they would not betray my presence.

[00:46:07]Hello Robbie. Hello.

[00:46:10]Hello Robbie.

[00:46:39]men eaters from that very land I had once thought to sail to.

[00:46:48]revolted, horrified.

[00:46:52]All that night, I observed the cannibals at their ghastly entertainment.

[00:47:10]They left on the morning tide, but how soon a tide would bring them back?

[00:47:18]How many times have they come and gone while I unknowing was on my side of the island?

[00:47:59]I was in a murdering humor. I even thought to lure them to my castle and from ambush slaughter 20 or 30 of the naked wretches. I knew no peace for months and months a h 100 times. I was just about to let fly at them in my sleep.

[00:48:30]I contrived what I called my bomb.

[00:48:51]Now I had my bomb. I had a vision. I imagined how easily I might set a trap and these monsters might be destroyed.

[00:49:16]After passion, hatred, I realized I had no heavenscent right to be judge and executioner on these people who had done me no injury. I would leave them to God's justice.

[00:49:28]I would not interfere with them unless they attacked me first.

[00:49:41]I moved about my island with the greatest of caution, never knowing when their attack might come.

[00:50:57]They had two victims.

[00:51:00]While they strung one up for slaughter, I saw that the second tried to make his escape.

[00:51:47]Thank you.

[00:52:02]Here.

[00:52:18]Here.

[00:52:20]No. No. No. No. No. Here. Here. Here.

[00:52:22]Here.

[00:52:42]Huh?

[00:53:00]Up. Up. Up. Now up. Up. I shall not harm you.

[00:53:13]Eat. Oh, no. No.

[00:53:44]Here up here up him.

[00:54:11]You underground underground. Out of sight him under.

[00:55:28]a hoopa. A hoopa.

[00:55:47]Up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up.

[00:55:54]What is your name?

[00:55:56]What is your name? Your name?

[00:56:16]Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

[00:56:22]Come here. Come here.

[00:56:25]Come here.

[00:56:32]You Friday.

[00:56:36]You Friday. Friday.

[00:56:41]Friday. No. Friday.

[00:56:45]Friday.

[00:56:49]Master. Master.

[00:56:53]Master.

[00:56:56]Friday. Master friends.

[00:57:00]>> Friends, >> friends, eat.

[00:57:10]Eat.

[00:57:18]No. No. Eat, man. Wrong. Wrong. Friday.

[00:57:23]This good. Eat.

[00:57:47]I dare not sleep. If the cannibals fail to come at me before morning, he might.

[00:58:00]The cannibals had departed, fortunately for me, without so much as a search for their missing companions.

[00:58:12]I would not let him handle any weapon.

[00:58:27]I use my musketer to ensure his continued fear and respect of me.

[00:58:45]Come on. Come on. Present me. Exactly.

[00:58:59]I put a strong door to my cave so he could not take me unawares at night.

[00:59:09]How reassuring it was to see him eat the flesh of animals, knowing that the only source for that other meat he so relished would be myself.

[00:59:30]dinner.

[00:59:30]>> Huh?

[00:59:35]>> Someday if you're good, I'll teach you to smoke.

[01:00:01]How pleasant it was once more to have a servant.

[01:00:07]>> Friday, what's this?

[01:00:08]>> Milk.

[01:00:10]>> And this >> bread?

[01:00:12]>> No. No. Freddy, >> use a fork.

[01:00:18]>> What's this plate?

[01:00:23]>> This Friday.

[01:00:25]>> Good Friday. Very good.

[01:00:42]What do you see inside black line?

[01:00:47]>> It is your land, your nation >> inside. No, >> there.

[01:00:54]But with this it appears near.

[01:00:57]There is your nation. Your people.

[01:01:00]>> Oh, happy there. See my nation, my people.

[01:01:05]Why do you always come He hither to this island?

[01:01:08]>> God says only good place after Kilur.

[01:01:13]>> And you would like to go back to your nation.

[01:01:16]>> Yes. Oh yes. Like go back Friday. Friday the happy my people.

[01:01:22]>> I understand.

[01:01:32]Suppose a horde of his countrymen were to visit the island.

[01:01:36]Would he not, forgetting all obligation to me, either return with them to his native country, or worse still, lead them to plunder my precious possessions, and even join in the feast upon myself?

[01:02:47]Friday.

[01:02:49]>> Why are you here? Friday, what do you want?

[01:02:55]>> Smoke. Good for master. Good for Friday.

[01:03:02]>> Go. If you want something again, ask me first.

[01:03:18]had he truly remembered my promise that he might smoke.

[01:03:31]No, I could not trust him through another light.

[01:03:38]Go to bed now.

[01:03:40]>> Not finish work.

[01:03:43]>> You hear me? Go to bed.

[01:04:03]So long ago.

[01:04:05]I had intend of these for slaves.

[01:04:22]Sit up.

[01:04:24]Give me your ankles, your legs.

[01:04:29]>> Why you die, Friday?

[01:04:30]>> I'm your master. I shall do as pleases me. You forced me to this now. At least I can sleep.

[01:05:28]Take off quickly. Private foot girls.

[01:05:30]>> You have decided. Did you not tell me the other day you want to go away? Go back to your own nation. That you want to go back to your people?

[01:05:38]>> Yes. Go with you. Only with you.

[01:05:43]>> They kill me.

[01:05:44]>> I tell you say life you friend.

[01:05:48]>> They'd still kill me.

[01:05:49]>> No. No. Kill my people. Obey Friday.

[01:05:52]Friday. Low master always ready.

[01:06:10]Sit down.

[01:06:19]>> I cannot hold you here by force.

[01:06:22]Perhaps it will be better if you go back.

[01:06:29]You take Friday.

[01:06:34]What must I kill you for?

[01:06:35]>> Take Friday. No f Friday away.

[01:06:52]Freddy.

[01:06:54]Freddy, forgive me. Friday, forgive me.

[01:07:00]I want you to be my friend.

[01:07:03]I will never leave here.

[01:07:06]If you want to go, do so.

[01:07:14]Integrity Friday over there. White pig.

[01:07:48]How wrong I had been. Friday was as loyal a friend as ever man could want.

[01:07:58]With his many different skills, he enriched my life in the island. We found that two working together could do far more than two working separately.

[01:08:46]Friday.

[01:08:49]You like you know what it is.

[01:08:52]>> Beautiful. Beautiful present. Strong guard.

[01:08:55]>> Better say from the devil.

[01:08:58]>> H. No. No. You would not understand Friday.

[01:09:01]>> Will. Master. Give Friday. 1 2 3.

[01:09:06]>> You take them all. Amuse yourself. If you get tired of them, throw them into the sea.

[01:09:26]Bastard.

[01:09:27]Look at sliding.

[01:09:29]>> Beautiful. Cold for war.

[01:09:38]Take that off.

[01:09:57]These were the happiest years of all the life I led in my island.

[01:10:14]Sit down, Freddy.

[01:10:28]So you understand Friday, >> the devil is God's enemy in the hearts of men. He uses all his his malice and skill to destroy the kingdom of Christ.

[01:10:41]>> But master say God is so strong, so great. Is he not much more strong as devil?

[01:10:48]>> Yes. Yes. Right. God is stronger than the devil.

[01:10:51]>> He is above the devil. Therefore, we pray to God. But this God is much more strong as devil. Why God no kill devil?

[01:11:01]So make him no more wicked.

[01:11:05]>> What say Freddy? Say >> is God the most strong? Why he not kill devil? Kill sin.

[01:11:16]>> Well listen Friday. Without the devil there will be no temptation and no sin.

[01:11:22]The devil must be there for us to have a a chance to choose sin or resist it.

[01:11:28]>> Is God let devil tempt us?

[01:11:35]>> Yes.

[01:11:35]>> Then why God made you understand, don't you, Paul? Friday can't get these things into his head.

[01:11:54]You understand, don't you?

[01:12:11]28 years on the island.

[01:12:15]The desire to escape still burned within me.

[01:12:29]And now, counting on Friday's skill and knowledge, I contemplated the manufacturer of a craft large enough to carry us to the Spanish country, which Friday told me lay to the north. We devoted weeks to selecting a proper tree. This would be my last chance to see my native England before I died.

[01:13:46]Where'd he come from? Huh?

[01:13:51]Better get out of sight. There must be others.

[01:14:08]I need two. What?

[01:14:18]There we go.

[01:14:40]Heat. Heat.

[01:16:00]Master Shh. Look.

[01:16:05]Come on.

[01:16:14]Now rehearsal for the last time. Now there they are. Here we are behind the trees. Now we'll see.

[01:16:31]No, no, no, no. Tinder, tinder.

[01:17:26]White men like Master Prince.

[01:17:32]>> Come on, move now.

[01:17:48]Andes, I am to those trees. We will come back for you. We have got water for the ship.

[01:17:55]>> White men eat prisoners too.

[01:18:00]>> Eat them. No Friday. But murder them.

[01:18:03]Yes.

[01:18:04]>> Move now.

[01:18:23]Heat. Heat.

[01:19:11]rope. Master Drop.

[01:19:22]In spite of my appearance, I'm not something that lives in trees.

[01:19:27]I'm a man.

[01:19:33]>> Captain Oette.

[01:19:44]>> Now we can talk.

[01:19:45]>> But to whom do I speak? Who are you?

[01:19:49]Where have you come from?

[01:19:50]>> Uh, what is your case? Tell me.

[01:19:53]>> Mutiny, sir. Engineered by my mate, aided by those you saw him lead ashore.

[01:19:59]My bosen here, and most of those aboard are loyal.

[01:20:01]>> It's the mutineers who control the firearms, sir.

[01:20:04]>> And your ship >> as fine as ever bore sail beyond the reef, waiting only for the next tide.

[01:20:10]>> They anchored here to take on water and abandon us. When they surprised and killed the savages, >> should they return to the ship, we are lost.

[01:20:22]If we prevent their return, >> think you at possible armed, of course, to reassert your command.

[01:20:28]>> Nothing could prevent me.

[01:20:30]>> On two conditions, then >> agreed. First, while you're upon this island, you will be governed by my orders.

[01:20:35]>> Accept it.

[01:20:35]>> Second, if we recover your ship, you will carry me and my men to England. Passage.

[01:20:43]>> Well, you're home in China, India, three times around the world.

[01:20:54]Fernandez.

[01:21:00]Fernandez, >> mate. Yes. Leader of the mutiny.

[01:21:06]>> Fernandez.

[01:21:16]They're going to escape.

[01:21:19]>> Unless I've forgotten the ways of civilization, Captain. They'll not be putting back yet.

[01:21:32]>> Hey, what's that?

[01:21:52]Come here.

[01:21:54]I'll kill it.

[01:21:55]>> Wait.

[01:22:01]Go.

[01:22:02]>> Oh, no.

[01:22:07]Where'd you find this?

[01:22:11]there.

[01:22:13]>> Let's get it. Take your arm.

[01:22:16]>> Yeah. Come on. Come on. Get out. Come on.

[01:22:44]Which way?

[01:22:47]Come on.

[01:23:26]You take a look.

[01:23:31]>> Nobody here.

[01:23:32]>> Over we go.

[01:23:44]Heat. Heat.

[01:24:17]Come here.

[01:24:22]Drop arms. In the name of the governor of this island, drop arms.

[01:24:37]Come on, Rod. Blow your head off.

[01:25:00]No.

[01:25:02]Was I that young?

[01:25:09]Master, the boat arrived. The captain is waiting. Thank you, Freddy.

[01:25:18]I didn't expect it yet.

[01:25:22]The proof of the pudding.

[01:25:24]So, the people cannot say that Truso's mad.

[01:25:28]Here's a present for our friends outside.

[01:26:01]You commanded the captain to punish us harshly for our sins, did you not, governor?

[01:26:07]>> Nothing of the sort. I asked the captain to grant a request to remain here rather than return to the gallows.

[01:26:16]You've started ill and you'll live to regret your sacriiggious waste.

[01:26:23]But I have here instructions for you.

[01:26:26]Time of planting, care of livestock, places of concealment of weapons and powder, information also as to the savages who do on occasion visit this place.

[01:26:43]Whether or not you learn the lessons I have learned and survive, I cannot foresee. But you have something which I for years did not have. Something for which for which I wept, for which my soul shriveled and starved.

[01:26:57]You have others of your own kind. You have companions.

[01:27:02]You have man.

[01:27:08]You can sever the ropes that bind you.

[01:27:11]It should cost you an hour of painful work. By then, we shall have set sail.

[01:27:33]From what you saw today, Friday, are you not a little afraid of coming back with me to civilization?

[01:27:48]>> His master is not. Friday is not.

[01:28:40]And thus I left the island after I had been upon it 8 and 20 years, 2 months and 19 days.