

In Search of the Castaways
A Thousand Thrills, And Hayley Mills!
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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- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- jules verne
- shipwreck
- volcano
- pirate
- south america
- condor
- andes mountains
- brother sister relationship
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalG1 Dec 1962
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU1 Dec 1962
GermanyDE
- Theatrical61 Dec 1962
IrelandIE
- TheatricalG10 May 1963
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In Search of the Castaways was released on 1 December 1962.
Audience reviews
2- R6/10
r96sk
7/16/2020
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 too slow, at least f…
- W4/10
Wuchak
12/12/2020
_**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 misadventures in the Andes of C…
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