The Sea Gypsies (1978)

Directed by

Stewart Raffill

Genre

family film, children's film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man and his children set sail on a trip around the world. Their boat wrecks and leaves them stranded on a remote island with a female journalist.

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What happens

The Sea Gypsies, also known as Shipwreck, is a 1978 family adventure film starring Robert Logan and Mikki Jamison-Olsen. The film's tagline is It began as a dream... and became an adventure of a lifetime. The film was written and directed by Stewart Raffill, who wrote and directed the similarly themed Across The Great Divide and the first of the Wilderness Family films in the 1970s, all of which also starred Robert Logan. Heather Rattray portrayed Logan's daughter in four of these films including this one. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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