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Plot

Based on Jules Verne's novel Captain Grant's Children, In Search of the Castaways stars Hayley Mills and Keith Hamshere as the children of long-missing ship's captain Jack Gwillim. By chance, a note stuffed in a bottle comes to the attention of the kids and professor Maurice Chevalier; the note contains the fragment of a map, which suggests that Gwillim is somewhere in South America. Only after enduring a series of life-threatening adventures do Chevalier and the kids discover that they should have been in New Zealand all along! Once they're finally in the correct corner of the world, our protagonists are bedeviled by gunrunner George Sanders, the fellow who'd set the captain adrift. With the help of Wilfrid Brambell, a looney ex-crew member of the captain's (and the fellow who sent the bottled message), Chevalier, Mills and Hamshere are finally reunited with Gwillim--and as a bonus, Mills has found a boy friend, played by Michael Anderson.
MPAA Rating:
G
Genre(s):
Action,Family
Run Time:
98min.
Theatrical Release Date:
06/29/2009
DVD Release Date:
05/03/2005
Distributor(s):
Walt Disney Productions
Director(s):
Themes:
Daring Rescues
Tone:
Atmospheric,Light,Rousing
Keywords:
captain [military],high-seas,lost-at-sea,missing-person,search,search-party
Language:
English