In Search of the Castaways

1962

Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 63% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 63% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 3701 3.7K

based on novel or book jules verne shipwreck volcano pirate south america

Plot summary

Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father. This Disney film was based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children.

Director

Robert Stevenson Photo
Robert Stevenson

Top cast

Maxwell Shaw Photo
Maxwell Shaw as Sailor
Patrick Jordan Photo
Patrick Jordan as Ayerton Hijacker Two
Roger Delgado Photo
Roger Delgado as Patagonian Prisoner
Michael Anderson Jr. Photo
Michael Anderson Jr. as John Glenarvan
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904.89 MB
1280*766
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 4
1.64 GB
1792*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10

Full-blown and exciting adventures based on Julio Verne novel

A journey looking for captain Grant (Jack Gwillim) is realized by a teenage girl Hayley Mills (Pollyanna), her little boy brother along with two veterans (Wilfrid Hyde White and singer Maurice Chevalier) and a young man (Michael Anderson Jr.) . During the long travel they find natural disasters as earthquake in the Andes , fire and flood in the ocean and volcano in New Zealand and they attempt to overcome . Besides they encounter different tribes as Araucans (an Indian chief played by Antonio Cifariello ), Patagons (Argentina) and Maoris (New Zealand).The picture contains adventures , humor , emotion , songs , stirring action and sensational outdoors . The film displays some scenes have you on the edge of your seat as the amusing images when the protagonists sledge over floe . Excellent , powerful cast with sympathetic Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier and with the cynic George Sanders . Colorful cinematography reflecting marvellous landscapes by Paul Beeson . Lively and evocative music by Willyam Alwyn . Abounds matte painting and special effects by the Disney specialist Peter Ellenshaw . It's a winning Disney effort made by its usual director Robert Stevenson (Herbie , gnome mobile , Mary Poppins) . It's a must for the Disney fans but is beautifully released , being recommendable for all family and especially for little boys public . Rating : Good and entertaining.
Reviewed by boblipton 7 / 10

Old-Fashioned and Fun, But Near the End

Jules Verne gets Disneyfied again by the reliable Robert Stevenson, with Hayley Mills, Wilfred Hyde-White, George Sanders and Maurice Chevalier, singing some songs by the Sherman brothers. Given a story that traveled around the world and got its characters involved in floods, volcanic eruptions, mutinies, and capture by cannibals, somehow, everyone remains pink-faced & scrubbed clean at all times, with every bow-tie perfectly tied.It's a perfect movie at a moment when the strains of Hollywood's erosion and its retreat into what is today called a "tentpole movie" model was just about to collapse. While the Major studios like Fox were still relying on blockbusters like THE LONGEST DAY (which outgrossed this film), cheap producers like AIP were serving the Teen market. By the end of the decade, everyone would be going after them and movies like this would be seen as quaint. Well, I guess I'm old-fashioned. I love it.
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