In Search of the Castaways 1962
- Director: Robert Stevenson
- Seen by this director: Mary Poppins, Darby Gillis and the Little People, Old Yeller
- Based on the novel by Jules Verne
- Cast: Hayley Mills, Maurice Chevalier, George Sanders, Keith Hamshere, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Michael Anderson Jr, Wilfrid Brambell
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Hayley Mills – The Family Way, The Trouble with Angels, The Truth about Spring, The Moon-spinners, The Chalk Garden, Whistle Down the Wind, The Parent Trap, Pollyanna, Tiger Bay
- Maurice Chevalier – Pepe, Gigi
- George Sanders – Various TV series, A Shot in the Dark
- Wilfrid Hyde-White – My Fair Lady
- Michael Anderson Jr – TV series
- Wilfrid Brambell – A Hard Day’s Night
- Why? A childhood favourite.
- Seen: Once before. Now 24 May 2021.
Young Mary Grant (a growing up Mills),
her little brother Robert (Hamshere) and Professor Paganel (Chevalier) crash a
posh party on board ready to sail from Glasgow in 1858. They have found a
message in a bottle from the children’s father, a sea captain long disappeared
and presumed dead.
Next stop the Andes, and then a flash
flood, and then New Zealand. There’s a few songs, a few exciting moments and
very little substance. Jules Verne will be spinning in his grave.
Still, it was good entertainment for my
12-year-old self and to my surprise also for my considerably older self.
The ‘you’re all right for a girl’ puppy love and noble/bumbling savage could have been edited out but for a kid’s film from the early 60’s it’s acceptable.
2 ½ * of 5
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