I saw the film of Robinson Crusoe either when I was a child or in high school. I'm 77 now and it's hard to remember. I loved it. Something about the man's not being a part of human culture struck me and the challenge of being alone and completely responsible for staying alive frightened. Today I am very much an existentialist. I would love to have confirmation that it was this Dan O'Herlihy version that I saw. This might help someone confirm it for me: at the end of the film, as Crusoe is getting into the row boat to go out to the ship, he looks back at the island and hears his old dog which he buried there barking. Oy vay, it tore me up. He was surely happy to have been found and that he could return to his former life but there was a bit of longing in the way he looked back at the island.
Review of Robinson Crusoe
