

He names the man Friday and, shockingly, chains him up. When he stumbles on a violent tribe making human sacrifices, he fires on the killers and saves a man (William Takaku) from death. He gathers tools, weapons, and supplies from the hull of his ship and uses ingenuity and his wits to make a life. A storm destroys the ship and Crusoe survives, spending the next six years on a remote island. Fearing reprisals, Crusoe takes to the sea, promising to return to his waiting Mary in a year. When she's forcibly betrothed to Crusoe's friend, a duel ensues, and the friend dies, impaled on a sword. The title character of Daniel Defoe's 1717 novel, ROBINSON CRUSOE (Pierce Brosnan), is an educated Scot whose fortunes disappear just as he's about to marry his longtime love, Mary (Polly Walker).
