The Blue Lagoon was released. The 1908 book is the story of two Victorian-era children, a boy and girl, shipwrecked on an uninhabited tropical island, who eventually fall in love when they become teenagers (a tale not far removed from Adam and Eve in paradise).
The previous two films adapted from of the novel, a 1923 silent movie and a G-rated color picture in 1949 — were notably tame compared with the R-rated version’s bounty of sex and nudity.
In fact, People magazine’s August 11, 1980, cover story about this box-office smash featured a headline declaring that the film’s two young stars, 15-year-old Brooke Shields and 19-year-old Christopher Atkins, “stir another ruckus over teen love in the movies.”Despite the initial controversy (and.