In Search of the Castaways (1962)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Robert Stevenson

Writers:

Jules Verne (novel)
Lowell S. Hawley (screenplay)

Release Date:

21 December 1962 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Adventure

Tagline:

A Thousand Thrills, And Hayley Mills!

Plot:

The Grant children _know_ their shipwrecked father must still be alive. Didn't he send them a message in a bottle...

Plot Keywords:

Earthquake | Flood | Fire | Message In A Bottle | Cannibal Tribe

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Maurice Chevalier	...	Jacques Paganel
Hayley Mills	...	Mary Grant
George Sanders	...	Thomas Ayerton
Wilfrid Hyde-White	...	Lord Glenarvan (as Wilfrid Hyde White)
Michael Anderson Jr.	...	John Glenarvan
Antonio Cifariello	...	Indian Chief
Keith Hamshere	...	Robert Grant
Wilfrid Brambell	...	Bill Gaye
Jack Gwillim	...	Captain Grant
Ronald Fraser	...	Guard at Dockyard Gate
Norman Bird	...	Senior Yacht Guard
George Murcell	...	Ayerton's Assistant
Inia Te Wiata	...	Maori Chief (as Inia Wiata)
Mark Dignam	...	Rich man at Yacht party
Michael Wynne	...	Crooked sailor

Also Known As:

Castaways (Philippines: English title)

Runtime:

98 min | Germany:89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.75 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

Australia:G | Finland:K-8 | UK:U | USA:G (1969) | West Germany:6

Filming Locations:

Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Trivia:

Hayley Mills made this film about about shipwrecked castaways two years after her father, John Mills, starred in Swiss Family Robinson (1960) also made by Walt Disney about shipwrecked castaways.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: When the Maori natives are climbing up the escape rope (which is burning furiously), wires are visibly connected to the stunt men.

Quotes:

Lord Glenarvan: Why would a shark swallow a bottle?
Jacques Paganel: What was in his mind, I don't know. I only know what was in his stomach.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Jules Verne & Walt Disney: Explorers of the Imagination (2003) (V)

Theowinthrop's comments re Capt. Hattaras

Theowinthrop should check the Disney Catalogue very thoroughly for the Captain Hattaras tale. We have that very movie available on DVD here in Australia. Or at least something with a similar storyline written by the same author. I'm not sure whether it is live action or cartoon though. Quite apart from the above though "In Search Of The Castaways" was in my opinion a very enjoyable movie. Hayley Mills as always is precocious in a serious way. Maybe it's me but I do not think that she was ever a good singer as I consider her voice too thin for singing. I also do not think that she really matured until after her Disney contract expired - compare her later movies to the earlier ones. From the land down under.