Release and Reception
The film premiered at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, where director Jack Gold received a nomination for the Palme d'Or.
- "This subversively satirical variation on the Robinson Crusoe tale is a cheeky critique of colonization, race relations and the class struggle." - Rotten Tomatoes
- "Instead of a story of survival, we get a metaphor in which everything in the movie has to serve the ultimate, and murky, meaning". - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, March 12, 1976
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