Islands in the Stream

Thomas Hudson

Eddy

Captain Ralph

Tom

Lil

Willy

Audrey

Joseph

David

Helga Ziegner

Andrea

Herr Ziegner

Constable

Debut theatrical feature film of actor Hart Bochner.

Some movie posters for the film featured a long text preamble that read: "HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE YOU'VE SEEN A REALLY GOOD MOVIE? Since you really fell in love with a picture. Where you felt a movie instead of just seeing one. Since you forgot you were in a theatre and thought you were in someone else's life. When you lost yourself in a story. Since you saw a movie that said something about life and love that you will take with you in your heart and mind long after the evening's over. How long has it been since you've seen a really good movie? If it's been too long then see 'Islands In The Stream'."

Second of two cinema movie collaborations of actor George C. Scott and director Franklin J. Schaffner. The first had been Patton (1970) around seven years earlier in 1970. That movie won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and scoring Oscars for both Scott and Schaffner. Ironically, Patton (1970) debuted in the same 1970 year that the Ernest Hemingway novel "Islands in the Stream" was first published.

When the boat is slowly cruising up the river in Cuba looking for refugees, a crew member's hand can be seen moving tree branches away from the camera.

Thomas Hudson: I've had a lot of luck to have such a life. I wish there was some way to pass on with what I've learned of. My God, I was learning fast there at the end.

Tom: [on the war refugees] They're sure pitiful.

Joseph: Tom, will the boys go to this war?