Review of The Blue Lagoon

I rated this film 5/10 as just average.On the face of it this should have been an erotic experience with a healthy man and woman shipwrecked on a desert island.However the producer managed to take any sex out of the film.It was risible how Jean Simmons managed to produce a baby all on her own yet you never saw her pregnant or have help from Donald Houston with the delivery.It was almost as if she found it under one of the palm trees (substitute for gooseberry bush!).I know "the Code" was in force but even in 1949 the producer could have been a bit more explicit with the sex thing, all you saw was a rather chaste kiss from the stranded castaways - it was all rather "twee".I found Donald Houston very average with no sex appeal but there again, Jean Simmons had no choice of men!Other parts, such as they were, were just very average and rather two dimensional.Normally I like JS films but this one was not one of them.