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Robinson Crusoe is a British film of genre Adventure with Fay Compton
Robinson Crusoe (1927)
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Add to a movie listLength 1h5
OriginUnited-kingdom
Genres Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on Robinson Crusoe, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Rating59%
Robinson Crusoe is a 1927 British silent drama film directed by M.A. Wetherell and starring M.A. Wetherell, Fay Compton and Herbert Waithe. It is an adaptation of the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. A shipwrecked man becomes stranded on a desert island. It was made at Cricklewood Studios and Lime Grove Studios in London.
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Fay Compton
(Sophie)
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