A family of five become shipwrecked on a deserted island in the South Pacific in “Swiss Family Robinson.” Director Ken Annakin and producer Walt Disney created a delightful family adventure film with outstanding production values. It was adapted from the 1812 novel of the same name by Johann David Wyss, with the sterling screenplay written by Lowell S. Hawley, one of Disney’s in-house writers (1957-1969).
The cast includes John Mills and Dorothy McGuire as the Robinson’s, James MacArthur, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran as their sons, Sussue Hayakawa as the pirate captain, Andy Ho, Milton Reid, Larry Taylor as pirates, and Janet Munro and Cecil Parker as escapees from the pirates.
The very watchable “Swiss Family Robinson” was the fourth highest grossing film of 1960 for producer Walt Disney, Walt Disney Productions, Buena Vista Distribution, and The Walt Disney Company. It was filmed on the island of Tobago in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago. The CBS television series “Lost in Space” (1965-1968) was loosely based on this film.
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Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
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A family of five become shipwrecked on a deserted island in the South Pacific in “Swiss Family Robinson.” Director Ken Annakin and producer Walt Disney created a delightful family adventure film with outstanding production values. It was adapted from the 1812 novel of the same name by Johann David Wyss, with the sterling screenplay written by Lowell S. Hawley, one of Disney’s in-house writers (1957-1969).
The cast includes John Mills and Dorothy McGuire as the Robinson’s, James MacArthur, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran as their sons, Sussue Hayakawa as the pirate captain, Andy Ho, Milton Reid, Larry Taylor as pirates, and Janet Munro and Cecil Parker as escapees from the pirates.
The very watchable “Swiss Family Robinson” was the fourth highest grossing film of 1960 for producer Walt Disney, Walt Disney Productions, Buena Vista Distribution, and The Walt Disney Company. It was filmed on the island of Tobago in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago. The CBS television series “Lost in Space” (1965-1968) was loosely based on this film.
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