In Search of the Castaways
  • Title: In Search of the Castaways
  • Original Title: In Search of the Castaways
  • Release Date: 01/12/1962
  • Tagline: A Thousand Thrills, And Hayley Mills!
  • Duration:98 Min / 01:38
  • Country:US
  • Genre:AdventureFamily

About Film

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.

Movie Rating: 6.4

Total Votes: 75

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r96sk
r96sk
6/10
Maurice Chevalier and Wilfrid Hyde-White are very good, but 'In Search of the Castaways' 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...
Wuchak
Wuchak
4/10
_**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...