With films like this and "Bank Shot" it seems that Oscar refuser George C. Scott (having gotten another nomination the year after refusing his award for "Patton"), it's games like Scott was in a campaign to get the Academy to never consider him for a nomination again. He had some memorable flops after this (as well as one even bigger disaster than this, "Exorcist III"), but would mainly do character parts for the remainder of his film career. What was he thinking in producing, directing and starring in this bizarre film that is more boring than shocking and basically just runs out of steam once you've seen every creepy crawly or cute creature on the island him and his family are stranded on.
Real life wife Trish Van Devere is his wife here, with Lee Montgomery ("Burnt Offerings") and later John David Carson as their only child. There's not much conversation to be had after they learn how to survive on the island, but when the now grown son (Carson) begins to have sexual urges, they are directed to none other than his mother, the only woman on the island they'll never get off of.
Father and son end up in a savage game of life and death, and rather than presenting this plot device in a Greek tragic way like "Oedipus", that just stops the film cold as it really serves no purpose other than to shock, at least those who haven't tuned out. I found Peter O'Toole's alternate "Robinson Crusoe" variation, "Man Friday", much more emotionally involved than this as it dealt with a different type of sexual survival that actually made a point and had a real plotline, where here plot just simply meant grave, as in the burial of the dead, aka lifeless.
Real life wife Trish Van Devere is his wife here, with Lee Montgomery ("Burnt Offerings") and later John David Carson as their only child. There's not much conversation to be had after they learn how to survive on the island, but when the now grown son (Carson) begins to have sexual urges, they are directed to none other than his mother, the only woman on the island they'll never get off of.
Father and son end up in a savage game of life and death, and rather than presenting this plot device in a Greek tragic way like "Oedipus", that just stops the film cold as it really serves no purpose other than to shock, at least those who haven't tuned out. I found Peter O'Toole's alternate "Robinson Crusoe" variation, "Man Friday", much more emotionally involved than this as it dealt with a different type of sexual survival that actually made a point and had a real plotline, where here plot just simply meant grave, as in the burial of the dead, aka lifeless.