The Admirable Crichton with new wrinkles. A rich bitch (Mariangela Melato) dishes out undiluted contempt to the hired help on a yachting expedition, but when she and one of the sailors (Giancarlo Giannini) are cut off from the rest and marooned on an uninhabited Mediterranean island, the tables are turned. The script often preaches a brand of Marxism, but the action bespeaks male supremacy, and the moral of Lina Wertmuller's little parable is badly garbled. In any case, the structure is faulty — first the conflict goes all one way, then it goes all the other, and at the drawn-out resolution it doesn't seem to know where to go. Wertmuller's direction favors loud voices and applause lines (the ideological debate is mostly carried out on the level of name-calling); but her color scheme of sea, sky, sand, and tanned skin provides a pleasant setting. (1975) — Duncan Shepherd
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