In Search of the Castaways (1962)

Directed by

Robert Stevenson

Genre

adventure film, musical film, children's film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

G

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 82 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy and his sister hire a ship captain and a French scientist to cross the globe looking for their father who is lost at sea. They follow clues from a message in a bottle.

lightheartedwhimsicaloptimisticadventurousfamily-friendlylivelymusicalold-fashioned

What happens

In Search of the Castaways (also known as The Castaways) is a 1962 American adventure film starring Maurice Chevalier and Hayley Mills in a tale about a worldwide search for a shipwrecked sea captain. The film was produced by Walt Disney Productions and directed by Robert Stevenson from a screenplay by Lowell S. Hawley, based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children. In Search of the Castaways was the third of six films Hayley Mills starred in at Disney. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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