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Question: Years and years ago I saw a movie about an aristocratic family who get stranded on a desert island with their servants and at some point the blue bloods have to acknowledge that the butler and other servants are more inventive, ingenious, resourceful and street-smart than they are. So the servants take charge, until — if my memory serves me correctly — they're rescued, brought back to England and everybody goes back to his or her original position in the pecking order. I saw it as a kid — I'm 43 now — and think it was an older movie already. But every time I think about this adventure/psychological drama, it seems to me that it would be a nice story to remake. Answer: The story is definitely The Admirable Crichton, which started life as a play by James M. Barrie — yes, the man who wrote Peter Pan. It's been filmed three times already, first by Cecil B. DeMilleread more

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Indestructible
Number 12
Programming the Women
Igor's New Invention

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1968 Live A Little, Love A Little Movie, Director
1968 Speedway Movie, Director
1967 Double Trouble Movie, Director
1966 Spinout Movie, Director
1965 Sergeant Deadhead Movie, Director

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