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* MadeASlave: After Maynard kills a pirate in self-defence, a KangarooCourt of pirates sentences him to be the slave of Beth, the dead pirate's widow.
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* BermudaTriangle: Blair Maynard is a British-born American journalist who was once in the Navy and who decides to investigate the mystery of why so many boats disappear in the Bermuda Triangle of the Caribbean. He takes his estranged son Justin with him to the area on the "vacation" and, while fishing, both are attacked by an unkempt man and forcibly brought to an uncharted island. On the island, Blair discovers that the inhabitants of the island are a [[OutlawTown centuries-old colony]] of [[RuthlessModernPirates savage French pirates]].
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* OutlawTown: On an uncharted island in the BermudaTriangle is a colony of pirates inhabited the descendants of the French Buccaneers of Hispaniola. This secret enclave has been in existence since it was established by Jean-David Nau a.k.a. François l'Olonnais during the seventeenth century.
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* InbredAndEvil: The colony of [[RuthlessModernPirates bloodthirsty pirates]] has largely cut-off from the outside world for 300 years. Suffering from inbreeding, most of the women have become sterile and the pirates are starting to abduct outsiders to refresh their bloodline.
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* UsefulNotes/CoastGuard: The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter ''Dauntless'' stumbles on the pirate island while investigating the cocaine that had been dumped overboard from the schooner. The crew is ambushed by the pirates and massacred. Maynard uses the weapons onboard the cutter in his final showdown with the pirates.
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''The Island'' is a 1980 American slasher film directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Creator/MichaelCaine and Creator/DavidWarner. The film was based on a novel of the same name by Peter Benchley who also wrote the screenplay.
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''The Island'' is a 1980 American slasher film directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Creator/MichaelCaine and Creator/DavidWarner. The film was based on a novel of the same name by Peter Benchley Creator/PeterBenchley who also wrote the screenplay.
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* DoNotCallMePaul: After seeing his son shoot a man out of the mast of the schooner, a horrified Maynard shouts out his son's name: Justin. Justin replies that there is no "Justin", just "Tu-Barb": the pirate name Nau had given him.
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* WothlessYellowRocks: The pirates find a fortune in cocaine onboard the schooner, and throw it overboard because they have no idea what it is.
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* WothlessYellowRocks: WorthlessYellowRocks: The pirates find a fortune in cocaine onboard the schooner, and throw it overboard because they have no idea what it is.
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* SurveillanceStationSlacker: A Coast Guard launch is sent to investigate an explosion on a supposedly uninhabited island. The guardsman left to guard the launch decides to tip his hat over his eyes and take a nap. Unsurprisingly, he is captured by the pirates.
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* WothlessYellowRocks: The pirates find a fortune in cocaine onboard the schooner, and throw it overboard because they have no idea what it is.
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* DadTheVeteran: While at the gun range, Maynard mentions to proprietor that he was in Korea and that you never forget those skills. Presumably this explains how he knows how to operate a Browning .50 caliber machine gun later in the film.
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* RuthlessModernPirates: Although they wear [[APirate400YearsTooLate the trappings of their pirate ancestors]], the pirates are survive by preying on pleasure craft plying the Caribbean, and they never leave any survivors.
* StabTheScorpion: When Maynard is leaning over, about toignire ignite the PowderTrail to destroy the magazine, Beth walks out holding a crossbow that she levels at Maynard. She then raises the crossbow several inches and fires: shooting Windsor who is standing behind Maynard with an axe.
* StabTheScorpion: When Maynard is leaning over, about to
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* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: John David Nau--leader of the pirate settlement--is the descendant of infamous pirate Jean-David Nau a.k.a. François l'Olonnais.
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* FamousAncestor: John David Nau--leader of the pirate settlement--is the descendant of infamous pirate Jean-David Nau a.k.a. François l'Olonnais.
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* WouldHarmAChild: When Justin refuses to drink from the goblet Nau offers him, Nau shoves shoves him violently to the ground.
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* HandyCuffs: When Maynard has his hands manacled in front of him, he is able to reach the padlock and undo the combination lock.
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* FlareGun: After killing most of the pirates with a [[MoreDakka machine gun]], Maynard goes to claim his son back from their captain. Short confrontation ensues, which ends with the captain getting shot in the chest with a flare gun.
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* ManOnFire: One of the pirates has the habit of coating himself in pitch and setting himself on fire before raids to terrify his victims. When Maynard shoots him with a machine gun at the end of the film, he goes up in flames, runs around the aft deck, and then throws himself into the sea.
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* BurialAtSea: The pirates do this for the members of their crew who died in the assault on the cutter.
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* VehicularSabotage: Manuel pretends to help Maynard escape, and provides him with a small skiff and directions to the open ocean. Once he is sailing, Maynard discovers water coming in through the bottom of the boat, and realizes that Manuel had drilled holes in the boat and plugged them with molasses, which dissolves once in the water.
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* GunStruggle: When Justin refuses to shoot his father, Manuel yells that he'll do it and tries to grab the gun off Justin. In the ensuing struggle, Manuel gets shot through the middle of the forehead.
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* MoreDakka: While most of the pirates are gathered on the aft deck of the cutter, Maynard discovers a deck-mounted M2 Machine Gun hidden underneath a tarp. He opens fire on the pirates, and continues to fire even after they are all dead.
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* DressingAsTheEnemy: Nau and his crew dress in uniforms taken from the murdered coast guardsmen so they can use the launch to approach the cutter without being suspected.
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* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Maynard kills a pirate when they capture his boat. Because the pirate was married to Beth, a KangarooCourt convened by John David Nau sentences him to be Beth's slave and to impregnate.
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* BadassBystander: One of the sailors on the schooner turns out to be a martial artist and takes down several of the pirates, before one of them gets sick of his antics and guts him with a cutlass.
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* MolotovCocktail: Maynard uses a Molotov cocktail to ignite the PowderTrail he uses to blow up the magazine.
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* PowderTrail: While the pirates are out of their settlement, Maynard breaks open a barrel of gunpowder and lays a trail out of the powder store. He then ignites the powder trail with a MolotovCocktail and blows up the magazine.
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* AnAxeToGrind: The pirate who sneaks aboard the fishing boat at the start of the film butchers everybody on board with a double-bitted axe. Several of the pirates use boarding axes when storming the schooner. And Nau garbs a fire axe during his final fight with Maynard.
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* PirateKing: John David Nau is undisputed ruler of pirate settlement on the uncharted island in the Caribbean: the descendant of the buccaneer who first founded it.
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* LittleUselessGun: When Maynard is attacked by a pirate on his fishing boat, he unloads multiple shots from his son's target pistol into the pirate. The pirate isn't even slowed down and knocks Maynard out. Only when he wakes up does Maynard learn that the pirate had subsequently dies of his wounds.
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* KangarooCourt: After being knocked out by the pirate on his boat, Maynard awakens to find himself tied to a tree and being tried by a pirate court for the murder of the pirate.
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Not to be confused with the [[Film/TheIsland 2005 sci-fi film about cloning]].
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''The Island'' is a 1980 American slasher film directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Creator/MichaelCaine and Creator/DavidWarner. The film was based on a novel of the same name by Peter Benchley who also wrote the screenplay.
Skeptical journalist Blair Maynard (Caine) is assigned to explore the area known as the Bermuda Triangle, where thousands of boats have disappeared in a three-year span. When he leaves the Florida coast with his adolescent son, Justin (Jeffrey Frank), their boat is shanghaied by a group of pirates led by the tyrannical John David Nau (Warner). The pirates, who have lived undisturbed in the area for centuries, see father and son as new blood for their increasingly inbred clan.
!!Tropes in ''The Island'':
* IReadItForTheArticles: Maynard comes back to his office to find his son Justin reading a ''Playboy''. He asks if he's been reading it long, and Justin replies there is an interesting article.
* APirate400YearsTooLate: The plot centres on a long-isolated band of Caribbean pirates who prey on 20th Century boaters.
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Skeptical journalist Blair Maynard (Caine) is assigned to explore the area known as the Bermuda Triangle, where thousands of boats have disappeared in a three-year span. When he leaves the Florida coast with his adolescent son, Justin (Jeffrey Frank), their boat is shanghaied by a group of pirates led by the tyrannical John David Nau (Warner). The pirates, who have lived undisturbed in the area for centuries, see father and son as new blood for their increasingly inbred clan.
!!Tropes in ''The Island'':
* IReadItForTheArticles: Maynard comes back to his office to find his son Justin reading a ''Playboy''. He asks if he's been reading it long, and Justin replies there is an interesting article.
* APirate400YearsTooLate: The plot centres on a long-isolated band of Caribbean pirates who prey on 20th Century boaters.
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