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''The Island of Dr. Moreau'' is a 1977 science fiction film, and is the second English-language adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel of the same name, a story of a scientist who attempts to convert animals into human beings. The film stars Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera, and Richard Basehart, and is directed by Don Taylor. This movie is the second in A.I.P.'s H.G. Wells film cycle, which includes ''The Food of the Gods'' (1976) and ''Empire of the Ants'' (1977). ==Plot== Crewman Andrew Braddock (York) survives the wreck of the sailing ship ''The Lady Vain''. After seventeen days at sea in a lifeboat, he reaches the shores of an island governed by the mysterious scientist "Dr. Moreau" (Lancaster). Besides Moreau, the inhabitants of the island include Moreau's associate, Montgomery (Davenport), a mercenary; his misshapen servant, M'Ling (Cravat); and a ravishing young woman named Maria (Carrera). Though welcomed as an honored guest by Moreau, Braddock finds his contact with the natives increasingly disturbing, for they are not like any men he has ever seen before. Eventually, it becomes apparent that these "men" are, in fact, the hybrid products of Moreau's experiments upon various species of wild animals. Braddock becomes so shocked and curious that Moreau explains to him that he has invented a serum with a genetic human gene that can transform many wild animals into human beings giving them human characteristics. At times the part human part animal hybrids still have their animal instincts and don't quite behave like a human which sometimes enrages Moreau feeling that his experiments hasn't worked successfully. Braddock finds himself threatened by both the "manimals" and their sinister creator. Moreau has established rules for his creations, including the rule not to kill. The man-beasts adopt these rules as their own. After one of the man-beasts, (the Bull man) kills a tiger, Moreau intends to take it to the "house of pain", his laboratory, as punishment. The man-beast panics and runs. Braddock finds it in the jungle, badly injured, where it begs him to kill it rather than return it to the lab. Braddock shoots it, angering the man-beasts, as Braddock has broken the law of killing. Convinced that Moreau is insane, Braddock plans to leave the island with Maria, with whom he has developed a mutual attraction. They are caught however, and Moreau straps Braddock in his lab. When Montgomery objects to this Moreau shoots him in cold blood. The man-beasts become angry because Moreau has broken the very rule he expected them to follow. Moreau injects Braddock with a serum that gives him animal characteristics. Braddock becomes more animalistic yet struggles to maintain his humanity. The man-beasts storm the compound and Moreau is killed trying to whip his attackers into submission. The man-beasts, now overpowered by their primitive natures, ravenously attack the compound. Braddock, Maria, and M'Ling engineer an escape, but the compound is burned and most of the man-beasts are killed by the wild animals which Moreau kept for his experiments. M'Ling is also killed in the final escape, sacrificing himself to save his companions from a lion. Braddock and Maria manage to sail away in the lifeboat that Braddock arrived in, but only after a bloody battle with one of the last man-beasts. Braddock kills it with a broken oar. Some time later, they are rescued by a passing ship, and the serum has worn off, returning Braddock to his full human state. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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