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In Search of the Castaways is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Stevenson released in USA on 1 december 1962 with Hayley Mills
In Search of the Castaways (1962)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 1 december 1962
Length 1h38
Directed by Robert Stevenson
OriginUSA
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on science fiction novels, Musical films, Children's films
Rating64%
In Search of the Castaways is a 1962 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier in a tale about a worldwide search for a shipwrecked sea captain. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson from a screenplay by Lowell S. Hawley based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children. The film was Mills' third of six for the Disney Studios.
Synopsis
In company with her younger brother Robert (Keith Hamshere), and her elderly yet young-at-heart friend Professor Jacques Paganel (Maurice Chevalier), teenage Mary Grant (Hayley Mills) journeys to Glasgow to persuade the comically brave Lord Glenarvan (Wilfrid Hyde-White) to rescue her shipwrecked father, Captain John Grant (Jack Gwillim). The expedition sets sail and ventures halfway around the world, to both South America and New Zealand, respectively. The party suffers many assorted perils including an earthquake, a flood, a fire, an attack by a giant condor and an erupting volcano before finding and rescuing Captain Grant. A subplot involves a gunrunner named Thomas Ayerton (George Sanders), who is a treacherous former crew-member of Captain Grant's ship, and responsible for his disappearance. Another subplot involves a budding romance between young Mary Grant and Lord Glenarvan's handsome and loyal son John (Michael Anderson, Jr.Actors
Hayley Mills
(Mary Grant)
Maurice Chevalier
(Jacques Paganel)
George Sanders
(Thomas Ayerton)
Wilfrid Hyde-White
(Lord Glenarvan)
Jack Gwillim
(Captain Grant)
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