Filmed in Mexico with the Co-operation of Sotomayor Productions. Photographed in Regalscope (some Fox publicity says CinemaScope, thereby proving once again my claim that Regalscope is Bausch & Lomb CinemaScope and vice-versa). Producer: Jack Leewood.
Copyright 1959 by Associated Producers, Inc. Released through 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: March 1959. U.K. release: May 1960. Australian release not recorded. 7,066 feet. 78 minutes. This full-length version was released in the U.K., but in the U.S.A. the film was cut to 73 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Taursus, a buccaneer, shoots down his comrade Tiburon after helping him bury a treasure-chest on a desert island. Tiburon, left for dead, recovers, and in his wanderings about the isle meets a young boy, Frank, a marooned ship's helper with a pet seal who has adopted the ways of a savage. The two build themselves a jungle hideaway while waiting through the years for the proverbial ship that never comes; soon the young savage becomes a handsome muscular youth.
COMMENT: In their admirable rush to make "B" versions of well-known children's classics, it was inevitable that Associated Producers would turn to Captain Marryat (1792-1848). I still remember reading "Mr. Midshipman Easy" (1836) and "Masterman Ready" (1842). "The Little Savage" (not published in America until 1877) is obviously one of the author's lesser works, but it makes an entertaining movie (even if much of its amusement is unintentional) all the same.
Copyright 1959 by Associated Producers, Inc. Released through 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. No recorded New York opening. U.S. release: March 1959. U.K. release: May 1960. Australian release not recorded. 7,066 feet. 78 minutes. This full-length version was released in the U.K., but in the U.S.A. the film was cut to 73 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: Taursus, a buccaneer, shoots down his comrade Tiburon after helping him bury a treasure-chest on a desert island. Tiburon, left for dead, recovers, and in his wanderings about the isle meets a young boy, Frank, a marooned ship's helper with a pet seal who has adopted the ways of a savage. The two build themselves a jungle hideaway while waiting through the years for the proverbial ship that never comes; soon the young savage becomes a handsome muscular youth.
COMMENT: In their admirable rush to make "B" versions of well-known children's classics, it was inevitable that Associated Producers would turn to Captain Marryat (1792-1848). I still remember reading "Mr. Midshipman Easy" (1836) and "Masterman Ready" (1842). "The Little Savage" (not published in America until 1877) is obviously one of the author's lesser works, but it makes an entertaining movie (even if much of its amusement is unintentional) all the same.