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The Island (1980) on DVD

Peter Benchley was working on quite an impressive streak in 1980. Jaws and The Deep, published respectively in 1974 and 1976, became blockbusters of the literary world – but it was their film adaptations (each released in the year following publication) that made Benchley’s name into a household word and catapulted him into the rarefied [...]