The Island
strong violence, bloody images, sexual violence, nudity
Director(s)Michael Ritchie
Production year1980
Genre(s)Action, Adventure, Thriller
Approx. running minutes114m
CastMichael Caine, David Warner, Angela Punch McGregor, Frank Middlemass, Don Henderson, Dudley Sutton, Colin Jeavons, Zakes Mokae, Brad Sullivan, Jeffrey Frank, Michael Ritchie, Peter Benchley, David Brown, Richard D. Zanuck, Ennio Morricone, Henri Decaë, Richard A. Harris, Dale Hennesy
The Island
strong violence, bloody images, sexual violence, nudity
THE ISLAND is a US action adventure thriller in which a plane crash strands a journalist and his young son on a Caribbea ...
THE ISLAND is a US action adventure thriller in which a plane crash strands a journalist and his young son on a Caribbean island populated by ruthless pirates.
violence
A pirate strikes a man’s head with an axe and slashes open another’s belly, resulting in bloody injury detail. There are bloody shootings, stabbings and throat-cuttings. Pirates hold down a woman and trail jellyfish stingers over her bare torso, with brief breast nudity. A young animal’s throat is cut.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A female pirate sexually assaults a male captive in a sequence featuring brief breast nudity. In another scene a male pirate crudely suggests using a female captive as ‘breeding stock’, though this does not come to pass.
injury detail
There are occasional strong images of bloodied dead bodies, including a woman with a slash wound across her throat.
nudity
In addition to infrequent nudity in the context of violence and sexual violence, there are brief grainy images of sexualised breast nudity as a young boy casually looks through a Playboy magazine. In another scene we see a series of glamour photographs of a woman wearing a thin white vest through which her nipples are visible. A male pirate walks around at night unclothed, resulting in brief non-sexualised images of rear nudity and pubic hair.
additional issues
The film contains infrequent use of strong language (‘f**k’); milder terms include ‘whore’, ‘jerk-off’, ‘up you’, ‘bitch’, ‘son of a bitch’, ‘screw it’, ‘bloody hell’, ‘bastard’, ‘asshole’, ‘arse’, ‘crap’, ‘bullshit’ and ‘shit’. An unlikeable character uses the outdated term ‘idiot’ in reference to people with intellectual disabilities. There are scenes of moderate threat in which people, including children, are attacked or kidnapped by murderous pirates. Other issues include occasional moderate crude sex references, and visual and verbal references to cocaine smuggling.
Classified Date:
18/06/1980
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Cinema International Corp. UK
strong violence, bloody images, sexual violence, nudity
Classified Date:
06/12/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Treasured Films Limited
violence
A pirate strikes a man’s head with an axe and slashes open another’s belly, resulting in bloody injury detail. There are bloody shootings, stabbings and throat-cuttings. Pirates hold down a woman and trail jellyfish stingers over her bare torso, with brief breast nudity. A young animal’s throat is cut.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A female pirate sexually assaults a male captive in a sequence featuring brief breast nudity. In another scene a male pirate crudely suggests using a female captive as ‘breeding stock’, though this does not come to pass.
injury detail
There are occasional strong images of bloodied dead bodies, including a woman with a slash wound across her throat.
nudity
In addition to infrequent nudity in the context of violence and sexual violence, there are brief grainy images of sexualised breast nudity as a young boy casually looks through a Playboy magazine. In another scene we see a series of glamour photographs of a woman wearing a thin white vest through which her nipples are visible. A male pirate walks around at night unclothed, resulting in brief non-sexualised images of rear nudity and pubic hair.
Classified Date:
23/12/1986
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
CIC Video
Classified date06/27/2023
LanguageEnglish
violence
A pirate strikes a man’s head with an axe and slashes open another’s belly, resulting in bloody injury detail. There are bloody shootings, stabbings and throat-cuttings. Pirates hold down a woman and trail jellyfish stingers over her bare torso, with brief breast nudity. A young animal’s throat is cut.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A female pirate sexually assaults a male captive in a sequence featuring brief breast nudity. In another scene a male pirate crudely suggests using a female captive as ‘breeding stock’, though this does not come to pass.
injury detail
There are occasional strong images of bloodied dead bodies, including a woman with a slash wound across her throat.
nudity
In addition to infrequent nudity in the context of violence and sexual violence, there are brief grainy images of sexualised breast nudity as a young boy casually looks through a Playboy magazine. In another scene we see a series of glamour photographs of a woman wearing a thin white vest through which her nipples are visible. A male pirate walks around at night unclothed, resulting in brief non-sexualised images of rear nudity and pubic hair.
additional issues
The film contains infrequent use of strong language (‘f**k’); milder terms include ‘whore’, ‘jerk-off’, ‘up you’, ‘bitch’, ‘son of a bitch’, ‘screw it’, ‘bloody hell’, ‘bastard’, ‘asshole’, ‘arse’, ‘crap’, ‘bullshit’ and ‘shit’. An unlikeable character uses the outdated term ‘idiot’ in reference to people with intellectual disabilities. There are scenes of moderate threat in which people, including children, are attacked or kidnapped by murderous pirates. Other issues include occasional moderate crude sex references, and visual and verbal references to cocaine smuggling.
Director(s)Michael Ritchie
Production year1980
Genre(s)Action, Adventure, Thriller
Approx. running minutes114m
CastMichael Caine, David Warner, Angela Punch McGregor, Frank Middlemass, Don Henderson, Dudley Sutton, Colin Jeavons, Zakes Mokae, Brad Sullivan, Jeffrey Frank, Michael Ritchie, Peter Benchley, David Brown, Richard D. Zanuck, Ennio Morricone, Henri Decaë, Richard A. Harris, Dale Hennesy
Classified Date:
18/06/1980
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Cinema International Corp. UK
strong violence, bloody images, sexual violence, nudity
Classified Date:
06/12/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Treasured Films Limited
violence
A pirate strikes a man’s head with an axe and slashes open another’s belly, resulting in bloody injury detail. There are bloody shootings, stabbings and throat-cuttings. Pirates hold down a woman and trail jellyfish stingers over her bare torso, with brief breast nudity. A young animal’s throat is cut.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A female pirate sexually assaults a male captive in a sequence featuring brief breast nudity. In another scene a male pirate crudely suggests using a female captive as ‘breeding stock’, though this does not come to pass.
injury detail
There are occasional strong images of bloodied dead bodies, including a woman with a slash wound across her throat.
nudity
In addition to infrequent nudity in the context of violence and sexual violence, there are brief grainy images of sexualised breast nudity as a young boy casually looks through a Playboy magazine. In another scene we see a series of glamour photographs of a woman wearing a thin white vest through which her nipples are visible. A male pirate walks around at night unclothed, resulting in brief non-sexualised images of rear nudity and pubic hair.
Classified Date:
23/12/1986
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
CIC Video
Classified date06/27/2023
LanguageEnglish
