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The Island

Year:

1980

Duration:

109 min

Genres:

IMDB rate:

5.2

Director:

Michael Ritchie

Awards:

2 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1980-06-13

Filming Locations: New York City, New York, USA

Earnings

Budget: $22,000,000

Opening Weekend: $3,123,267 (USA) (15 June 1980)

Gross: $3,123,267 (USA) (15 June 1980)

Cast

Actor

Character

Robert Hirschfeld

The Island

Michael Caine

Blair Maynard

David Warner

John David Nau

Angela Punch McGregor

Beth

Frank Middlemass

Windsor

Don Henderson

Rollo

Dudley Sutton

Dr. Brazil

Colin Jeavons

Hizzoner

Zakes Mokae

Wescott

Brad Sullivan

Stark

Jeffrey Frank

Justin Maynard

John O'Leary

Doctor #1

Bruce McLaughlin

Doctor #2

James J. Casino

Doctor #3 (as Jimmy Casino)

Suzanne Astor

Mrs. Burgess

Susan Bredhoff

Kate

Reg Evans

Jack the Bat

Steve Gladstone

Pirate

David Hart

Attendant

Gary Hoffman

Mr. Burgess

George Marshall Ruge

Seaman #1

John Macchia

Seaman #2

Ricky Rincon

Manuel

Robert Thomas Salmi

Ship Captain

William G. Schilling

Baxter (as William Schilling)

Stewart Steinberg

Hiller

Bob Westmoreland

Charter Boat Captain

Mark Westwood

Coast Guardsman

Rod Ball

CPO Zimmerman (uncredited)

Chris Bean

Charter Yacht Captain (uncredited)

Christine Page

Woman at Gun Range (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Second and final of two movies that actors David Warner and Michael Caine both worked on. The first had been Ivan Passer's Silver Bears (1978) made and released around a couple of years earlier.

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In the film's story, the estimated number of vessels that had in three years gone missing in the Bermuda Triangle was 610 pleasure craft with over two thousand people sailing on them.

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The fictional vessel, the United States Coast Guard cutter (USCGS) "New Hope", was portrayed by the real life USCGC, the "Dauntless" (WMEC-624). This movie is one of two films that she has appeared, the other being Licence to Kill (1989). Coast Guard cutter USCGC Dauntless (WMEC 624) used to deploy out of Florida, but now is home ported in Galveston, Texas.

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Goofs

The machine gun mounts on the bridge wings of Reliance class cutters like the one featured in the film have stops that prevent traversing the gun so that it fires on the ship's flight deck. Blair Maynard could not have used the Dauntless' .50 caliber machine gun to attack the pirates the way that he does at the end of the film.

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At the end, when Caine swings the machine gun around and kills the pirates, is an impossible act. The mount only settings in an outward arc, making it impossible to fire on the helo deck that way.

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Quotes

Beth: What's that?

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Windsor: Are you wise enough to feel privileged by what you see here? You and I are the only living men to see what you lies before you now.

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