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Richard Bracken
Jun 05, 2013 rated it really liked it
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One of the few times the movie outdid the book with a lot more about pirates, lion traps, and gun battles in the film. The book describes the family to include FOUR boys, the movie cutting out a son named, Jack altogether.

It’s clearly a fantasy tale disguised as a survival story. The bounty on the island is far too utterly profuse to be a real place.

”Fortunately, in this beautiful climate little or no attention was necessary to the kitchen garden, the seeds sprang up and flourished without a
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