In Search of the Castaways

1962 98 min ★ 6.5 Adventure, Family

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.

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Cast

Maurice Chevalier

Jacques Paganel

Hayley Mills

Mary Grant

George Sanders

Thomas Ayerton

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Lord Glenarvan

Michael Anderson Jr.

John Glenarvan

Antonio Cifariello

Indian Chief

Wilfrid Brambell

Bill Gaye

Jack Gwillim

Captain Grant

Ronald Fraser

Guard at Dockyard Gate

Norman Bird

Senior Yacht Guard

Details

Director

Robert Stevenson

Tagline

"A Thousand Thrills, And Hayley Mills!"

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Walt Disney Productions

Reviews

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r96sk

July 16, 2020

★ 6/10

Maurice Chevalier and Wilfrid Hyde-White are very good, but <em>'In Search of the Castaways'</em> didn't quite capture my imagination. I mostly like the adventure elements, as they cross land and sea in search of castaways. Despite that, I never properly felt attached to the story as the aforementioned isn't stitched together well with the characters and their motives/feelings. It's also paced ...

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Wuchak

December 12, 2020

★ 4/10

_**Ridiculous set-bound Disney adventure with Hayley Mills**_ In Scotland, a sister (Hayley Mills) and her little brother team-up with a French professor (Maurice Chevalier), a shipping magnate (Wilfrid Hyde-White) and his son (Michael Anderson, Jr.) to search for the siblings’ missing father, a sea captain. Their journey first takes them to Patagonia, South America, where they have misadventur...