In Search of the Castaways (1962) on Netflix
Approved19621h 38mAdventureFamilyFantasy
Professor Paganel finds a note in a bottle that he takes to be Captain John Grant's. Grant's children Mary and Robert ask Lord Glenarvan to fund a search for their father.
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In Britain in 1858, Professor Paganel, a French professor of geography, comes upon a bottle holding a note. He takes the writing to be that of Captain John Grant, a ship's master who has gone missing. Mary and Robert, the captain's teenage children, want their father found. Together with Paganel they visit Lord Glenarvan, the shipping magnate who owned the captain's vessel, and his son John, and win their backing for a search. The party then puts to sea bound for South America.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about In Search of the Castaways (1962)
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- Charles Laughton dropped out of In Search of the Castaways; in January 1962 he was diagnosed with the cancer which caused his death that December.
- Disney devised In Search of the Castaways as a vehicle for Hayley Mills, who was under contract to make a film a year for five years, and wanted to age her gradually on screen with her first case of "puppy love".
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