In Search of the Castaways
A Thousand Thrills, And Hayley Mills!
1962 · 1h 38m · APPROVED
Adventure, Family
Directed by
Robert Stevenson
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In Search of the Castaways
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Robert Stevenson Director
- Maurice Chevalier as Jacques Paganel
- Hayley Mills as Mary Grant
- George Sanders as Thomas Ayerton
- Wilfrid Hyde-White as Lord Glenarvan
- Michael Anderson Jr. as John Glenarvan
- Antonio Cifariello as Indian Chief
- Keith Hamshere as Robert Grant
- Wilfrid Brambell as Bill Gaye
- Jack Gwillim as Captain Grant
- Ronald Fraser as Guard at Dockyard Gate
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