In Search of the Castaways

In Search of the Castaways is a 1962 Walt Disney Productions movie. It stars Hayley Mills, George Sanders, and Maurice Chevalier. The movie was directed by Robert Stevenson.  It was based on Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel Captain Grant's Children. The movie was Mills's third of six movies for the Disney Studios. The movie was a box office hit.

The Sherman brothers (Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman) wrote the songs "Castaway", "Merci Beaucoup", "Let's Climb", and "Enjoy It". Movie critic Hal Erickson wrote, "[The movie] is a roller-coaster of a Disney film, making up in excitement what it lacks in credibility or coherence...the film was ideal Saturday-matinee fodder for the kiddie trade in 1963."New York Times Overview. Retrieved 12 September 2008.

 Cast 
 Hayley Mills as Mary Grant, Captain Grant's daughter
 Keith Hamshere as Robert Grant, Captain Grant's son 
 Jack Gwillim as Captain Grant, a castaway
 Maurice Chevalier as Jacques Paganel, friend to Mary and Robert
 Wilfrid Hyde-White as Lord Glenarvan
 Michael Anderson, Jr. as John Glenarvan, his son
 George Sanders as Thomas Ayerton
 Wilfrid Brambell as Bill Gaye, a castaway
 Antonio Cifariello as Thalcave, Indian Chief
 Inia Te Wiata as Maori Chief

 Story 
Teenager Mary Grant, her brother Robert, and their friend Professor Paganel, persuade Lord Glenarvan to rescue shipwrecked Captain Grant. They sail halfway around the world on Lord Glenarvan's yacht. The friends survive an earthquake, a flood, a fire, an attack by a giant condor, and a volcanic eruption before rescuing Captain Grant from fierce Maoris.

A subplot involves a criminal named Thomas Ayerton, a former crew-member of Captain Grant's ship. He was responsible for Captain Grant's disappearance. Another subplot involves a romance between Mary and Lord Glenarvan's son John.

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Category:American adventure movies
Category:American musical movies
Category:Disney movies
Category:American fantasy movies
Category:American family movies
Category:Movies based on books by Jules Verne
Category:1962 adventure movies
Category:1962 musical movies
Category:1962 fantasy movies
Category:1960s family movies
Category:English-language movies
Category:Movies directed by Robert Stevenson