Man Friday is a 1975 adventure film directed by Jack Gold and starring Peter O'Toole and Richard Roundtree.

The film can be regarded as being critical of western civilization, against which it draws a contrasting picture of Caribbean tribal life.

When they start to consume a deceased comrade in a reverent form of ritual cannibalism, Crusoe kills Friday's friends and takes the latter to his camp as a prisoner.

Crusoe then tries to teach him Western concepts like property, sports, punishment, fear of God and so on, but Friday's reaction is only one of bewilderment and amusement.

To do so, he starts to pay Friday one gold coin per day for his labour—an ambivalent sign of respect, as there is no use for money on the remote island.

When they have arrived there, Friday tells the story of their relationship to the gathered tribe, which reacts with astonishment and amusement about the strange ways of Crusoe.

[4] It was meant to be filmed in Hawaii but wound up shot in Mexico at Puerto Vallarta due to cheaper costs.

)[7] Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that, "Instead of a story of survival, we get a metaphor in which everything in the movie has to serve the ultimate, and murky, meaning".