In Search of the Castaways (1962)
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Based on Jules Verne's novel Captain Grant's Children, In Search of the Castaways stars Hayley Mills and Keith Hamshere as the children of long-missing ship's captain Jack Gwillim. By chance, a note stuffed in a bottle comes to the attention of the kids and professor Maurice Chevalier;… More Based on Jules Verne's novel Captain Grant's Children, In Search of the Castaways stars Hayley Mills and Keith Hamshere as the children of long-missing ship's captain Jack Gwillim. By chance, a note stuffed in a bottle comes to the attention of the kids and professor Maurice Chevalier; the note contains the fragment of a map, which suggests that Gwillim is somewhere in South America. Only after enduring a series of life-threatening adventures do Chevalier and the kids discover that they should have been in New Zealand all along! Once they're finally in the correct corner of the world, our protagonists are bedeviled by gunrunner George Sanders, the fellow who'd set the captain adrift. With the help of Wilfrid Brambell, a looney ex-crew member of the captain's (and the fellow who sent the bottled message), Chevalier, Mills and Hamshere are finally reunited with Gwillim--and as a bonus, Mills has found a boy friend, played by Michael Anderson. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Robert Stevenson
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Art House & International, Classics
- In Theaters
- Dec 21, 1962 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Steve Crum, Video-Reviewmaster.com
High adventure Disney outing is fun with Hayley Mills and none other than Maurice Chevalier.
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Cast
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Maurice Chevalier
as Prof. Jacques Paganel
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Hayley Mills
as Mary Grant
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George Sanders
as Thomas Ayerton
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Wilfrid Hyde-White
as Lord Glenarvan
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Michael Anderson Jr.
as John Glenarvan
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Antonio Cifariello
as Thalcave
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Wilfrid Brambell
as Bill Gaye
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Keith Hamshere
as Robert Grant
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Ronald Fraser
as Guard
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Inia Te Wiata
as Maori Chief
- Norman Bird
- Roger Delgado
- Mark Dignam
- Barry Keegan
- Andrea Malandrinos
- George Murcell
- Maxwell Shaw
- Milo Sperber
- Michael Wynne
- David Spenser
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Jack Gwyllim
as Capt. Grant
- Jack Gwillim
- Keith Hamshire