In Search of the Castaways

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. It was directed by Robert Stevenson from a screenplay by Lowell S. Hawley based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children. It 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, Scotland, 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.).
==Cast==
*Hayley Mills as Mary Grant
*Maurice Chevalier as Jacques Paganel
*George Sanders as Thomas Ayerton
*Wilfrid Hyde-White as Lord Glenarvan
*Michael Anderson, Jr. as John Glenarvan
*Antonio Cifariello as Thalcave, the Indian Chief
*Keith Hamshere as Robert Grant
*Wilfrid Brambell as Bill Gaye
*Jack Gwillim as Captain Grant
*Inia Te Wiata as Maori Chief
*Roger Delgado as Patagonian Prisoner
==Musical Numbers==
Songs composed by the Sherman Brothers include "Castaway", "Merci Beaucoup", "Let's Climb (Grimpons)", and "Enjoy It", with an orchestral arrangement of "Castaway" serving as the film's overture.
==Awards and nominations==
The film placed third in the 1963 Golden Laurel Top Male Musical Performance (Chevalier) and was nominated for the Golden Laurel Top Action Drama.
==Gallery==
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In search of the castaways australia poster.jpg|Poster from the release in Australia in 1963
In search of the castaways brazil poster.jpg|Poster from the release in Brazil in 1964
In search of the castaways france poster.jpg|Poster from the release in France on November 27, 1963
In search of the castaways germany poster.jpg|Poster from the release in Germany on April 28, 1965
In search of the castaways japan poster.jpg|Poster from the release in Japan on March 14, 1964
In search of the castaways mexico lobby card.jpg|Lobby card from the release in Mexico on December 25, 1963
In search of the castaways poland poster.jpg|Poster from the release in Poland in 1966
INSEARCHOFTHECASTAWAYS.jpg|Poster from the release in the United Kingdom on November 14, 1962, a month before debuting in the United States
In search of the castaways and king of grizzlies uk poster.jpg|Poster from the UK re-release on May 17, 1970, on a double bill with King of the Grizzlies
Walt Disney Productions France 1963-4 program 4.jpg|Promo for the release in France
==Copyright info==
The film's copyright was renewed on October 10, 1990.Online Copyright Catalog search (form autofilled, pressing "begin search" brings up the entry)
==References==
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Category:Live-action films
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