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.
- 6.5
- 1962
- Released
- 1h 38m
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
George Murcell
Ayerton's AssistantInia Te Wiata
Maori Chief
Mark Dignam
Rich man at Yacht party
David Spenser
South American Guide
Milo Sperber
Crooked sailor
Roger Delgado
Patagonian prisonerBarry Keegan
Irish claimantMaxwell Shaw
Sailor
Andreas Malandrinos
Crooked sailor
Joss Ackland
Yacht SeamanMichael Wynne
Crooked sailor
Released
en
- #based on novel or book
- #jules verne
- #shipwreck
- #volcano
- #pirate
- #south america
- #condor
- #andes mountains
- #brother sister relationship
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_**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
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