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Product Details
Synopsis: An investigative writer for a news magazine who doggedly tracks down one of the most baffling mysteries of modern times the disappearance of pleasure craft and passengers from one area of the Caribbean. It is in this area of the sea that descendants of seventeenth-century buccaneers, trapped in a time warp, persist in their marauding ways. Caine is captures by these pirates who need his services to help improve their degenerated gene pool. Caine's twelve-year-old son is converted to the pirates heathen ways and turns against his father.
Starring: Michael Caine, David Warner
Supporting actors: Angela Punch McGregor, Frank Middlemass, Don Henderson, Dudley Sutton, Colin Jeavons, Zakes Mokae, Brad Sullivan, Jeffrey Frank, John O'Leary, Bruce McLaughlin, Jimmy Casino, Suzanne Astor, Susan Bredhoff, Reg Evans, Steve Gladstone, David Hart, Robert Hirschfeld, Gary Hoffman, George Marshall Rose, John Macchia
Directed by: Michael Ritchie
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes
Release year: 1980
Studio: Universal Studios
ASIN: B000I9TXRE (Rental) and B000I9VO9E (Purchase)
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #16,666 in Amazon Video On Demand (See Bestsellers in Amazon Video On Demand)
Rights & Requirements
Rental rights: 24 hour viewing period, play online or download to one location. Details
Purchase rights: No time limits. Play online and download to 2 locations. Details
Compatible with: Mac and PC online viewing, Windows PC download, TiVo DVRs, Sony BRAVIA Internet Video Link, Roku player, compatible portable video devices. System requirements
Format: Amazon Video on Demand (streaming online video and digital download)
Theatrical Release Information
  • US Theatrical Release Date: June 12, 1980
  • Production Company: Zanuck/Brown Productions, Universal Pictures
  • USA Box Office: $ 10 Million
  • Filming Locations: Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda | Miami, Florida, USA
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Yo ho ho, this is an interesting, surprisingly gory film, July 2, 2006
By Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Island, The (1980) [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Now, here's a film that should definitely be available on DVD by now. By the time I got around to watching this, I had completely forgotten what it was even supposed to be about - but I put away any misgiving once I saw that it starred Michael Caine and was based on Peter Benchley's post-Jaws novel of the same name. Admittedly, the movie is a little out there and has a couple of weaknesses in the plot, but the whole thing is realistic enough to be plausible and features some pretty shocking violence for a 1980 non-horror movie - the opening scene is a particularly effective attention-getter.

Michael Caine plays Blair Maynard, a New York journalist determined to get to the bottom of a rather shocking number of boats lost near the Bahamas in the last three years. As fate would have it, his son Justin (Jeffrey Frank) turns up in his office unexpectedly (the ex-wife having forgotten to even let Maynard know he was coming), so the two of them jet off to Florida for the weekend. In case you have any doubts as to the age of this movie, just watch a gun shop sell Blair a handgun for his twelve-year-old son upon their arrival. Anyway, the two take a most memorable air jaunt to a remote island, head out to do some fishing, and discover that being a Good Samaritan is rather highly overrated. Before you can say Yar, matie! the two of them find themselves captives of a rag-tag bunch of filthy pirates - actually, they prefer to be called buccaneers. Their archaic culture, which is a really weird mix of religion, ritual, and savagery, has survived for three hundred years out there in the middle of the Caribbean, hidden from the eyes of modern man (except for those they kill, of course). They keep Maynard alive because they need some new blood in the tribe - if you know what I mean - but the tribal leader has other plans for young Justin. Those plans greatly complicate Maynard's efforts to somehow escape from a seemingly inescapable predicament.

Buccaneers will be buccaneers, which means there is plenty of violence every step of the way toward a real bloodbath of a conclusion. I have some issues with the way young Justin's story played out, but all in all I found this to be an intensely interesting movie. The storyline could easily have degenerated into something rather silly, but the director never let that happen. As amusing as some of the buccaneers' antics might be, this is a serious film (except, of course, for the second strangest kung fu sequence I've ever seen) that steadily increases in intensity throughout. It doesn't have the in-your-face life-and-death drama of Jaws, but for my money it's a mighty interesting - and undeniably unusual - movie experience.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars The best "Island" movie around..., September 14, 2000
By Kenny Cross "pagan-rhino" (Seal Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Island, The (1980) [VHS] (VHS Tape)
I saw this movie when it first came out in theatres. Not a great movie, not that bad either. An amusing movie at the time - considering the stuff that was coming out then - it ain't all that bad. Perhaps if I saw it again now I might see what those below hate about it - but I don't think so. This is one of the movies that I saw back in the late '70's and early '80s that stuck with me as a movie I really liked.

So check it out - you'll be entertained at least - better than the ..... they show on television at any rate.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Great Gore !, January 1, 2007
By S. Mitchell "samintx" (Tyler, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Island, The (1980) [VHS] (VHS Tape)
I liked this movie...but I like Michael Caine. Parts of this bloody movie I had to close my eyes on but rewatch Island every so often for the adventure. One of the few scary creepy features that isn't done on a shoestring and Italian.

Escapism but a good one. Too bad it isn't out on DVD
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5.0 out of 5 stars Complete UnCut Letterbox DVD Please
Back when they knew how to make a Good Movie that wasn't FULL of FX.

Why O Why is this not on DVD yet? Read more
Published 8 months ago by Azure1

5.0 out of 5 stars The Island
I have looked for this movie for a long time. One of my favorites from the younger years. Thank you for prompt delivery. It is a great add to my movie selections.
Published 9 months ago by Michele Lynn Boyd

1.0 out of 5 stars Dont support this paid idea
Good movie, bad format. If you people would stop paying for this junk it would go away, these companies don't want you to own a movie, they are moving to formats like this so that... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Dach Nednil

3.0 out of 5 stars BEFORE JACK SPARROW, THERE WAS TUBARB!
With all the cheesey B Horror Movies out there, I'm surprised this has
never been released on DVD. I bet Attack of the Mushroom People is probably on DVD! Read more
Published 15 months ago by FRANK ROCKER

3.0 out of 5 stars A Passable, Waterlogged Adventure/Thriller
Back in 1980, long before Johnny Depp & Co. brought us the never-ending 'Pirates of the Caribbean' fare, novelist Peter Benchley and producers Richard D. Read more
Published 22 months ago by M. B. DaVega

1.0 out of 5 stars NETFLIX SOON!!!!
STILL TRYING TO DOWNLOAD THIS THING!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAVE NOT WATCHED YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT PAID SEVERAL TIMES!!!!!!!! DOWNLOADED 5 UNBOX PLAYERS!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more
Published on November 20, 2006 by Thomas Perry Jr.

5.0 out of 5 stars Movie " The Island "
Wow , Movie is flawless and the box was in better shape than really anyone would worry about . Had ben looking for this movie for a couple years and finally have it in my... Read more
Published on July 2, 2005 by Joseph Laslo

3.0 out of 5 stars The Carribbean from a different perspective
I saw this movie for the first time on cable when I was a kid way back in the early 80's While it may not be one of the greatest movies ever made, it certainly is intriguing. Read more
Published on October 11, 2003 by Celeste M. Harmer

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad at all
My first review. Hello, thanks for coming.

With the arrival of "Pirates of the Caribbean" at this Summer's box office, no doubt some people will be searching out pirate movies... Read more

Published on July 12, 2003

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but barely watchable actioner
Michael Caine is Blair Maynard, a somewhat too-intelligent-for-his own good writer for the New Yorker who gets caught up with carribean piracy in "The Island". Read more
Published on February 5, 2003 by Rottenberg's rotten book review

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