Susan Stranks, who played Young Emmeline in Frank Launder's film about a pair of children who grow up stranded on a desert island, visited the BFI Southbank to share her memories of making the film.
The Blue Lagoon is a romantic adventure that transports you to a desert island with palm-fringed beaches and azure water, beautifully rendered in Technicolor. Audiences in gloomy post-war Britain undoubtedly enjoyed the escape offered by this tale of young love in idyllic surroundings as two shipwrecked children, a boy from below deck and a genteel girl, learn to survive without adults. Frank Launder handles the tale with a light touch, and the natural charm exuded by Simmons as the innocent castaway highlights the vice and greed inherent in ‘civilisation’, as personified by Cyril Cusack’s lecherous crook.
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Негізгі бет Susan Stranks on The Blue Lagoon (1949) | BFI Southbank Q&As
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