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In Search of the Castaways
UNITED STATES · 1962

In Search of the Castaways

Robert Stevenson
adventure family reunion shipwreck expedition Jules Verne adaptation
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Synopsis

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.

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