In Search of the Castaways
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SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS (PG)
D: Robert Stevenson
Disney (Hugh Attwooll)
UK 1961
100 mins
Adventure/Fantasy
W: Lowell S. Hawley [based on the novel "Captain Grant's
Children" by Jules Verne]
DP: Paul Beeson
Ed: Gordon Stone
Mus: William Alwyn
PD: Michael Stringer
Maurice Chevalier (Jacques Paganel), Hayley Mills (Mary
Grant), George Sanders (Thomas Ayerton), Wilfred Hyde-White (Lord Glenarvan), Wilfrid Brambell (Bill Gaye)
Engaging children's adventure which starts off quite
realistically but then builds into complete fantasy.
With the aid of a jaunty, eccentric professor, three children
seek their father, an explorer who is lost somewhere in South America.
As far as geography lessons go, this film may well have taken
place in the wonderful world of Oz, but for clean, wholesome entertainment of the Disney variety you could do a hell of a lot worse.
It hasn't dated particularly well with elements of the
production, visual effects, etc., but it's unlikely that the young audience this is aimed at will care.
6/10
