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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 6589
Released: May 3, 2005 |
| Our Price: $7.22 |
| Used Price: $7.26 |
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MPAA Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Closed-captioned Color DVD NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
Embark on an amazing adventure awash with intrigue over land and sea, now on Disney DVD for the first time! Hayley Mills stars as fearless Mary Grant, whose only clue to her missing father -- a sea captain -- is a mysterious message in a bottle. One clue leads to a thousand thrills when Mary, her brother, and their fellow searchers must brave earthquakes, fire, flood, and even a giant condor on their perilous rescue mission. Maurice Chevalier, George Sanders, and Wilfrid Hyde-White also star in this spectacular fantasy-adventure based on celebrated novelist Jules Verne's popular book. Brimming with special effects, this is your passport to surefire family fun!
Description of In Search of the Castaways:
In Search of the Castaways was Hayley Mills's third feature for Disney, an agreeable adventure--loosely based on a Jules Verne story--with enough derring-do to make kids happy and with the right touch of self-conscious silliness to keep adults smiling. Mills plays Mary Grant, a missing freighter captain's daughter convinced her father is still alive somewhere in Earth's southern hemisphere. With the help of her brother (Keith Hamshire) and a veteran seaman (an extremely unlikely if charming Maurice Chevalier), Mary convinces a shipping magnate, Lord Glenarvan (Wilfrid Hyde-White), to set sail and find the missing Captain Grant. The team survives freezing weather, avalanches, a menacing condor, an active volcano, Maori captors, and a plot by a slick George Sanders to steal a ship. Meanwhile, Mary and Glenarvan's rakish son, John (Michael Anderson Jr.), engage in flirtatious feuding. The many memorable action sequences are wildly improbable (all the more so watching the nonchalant Chevalier have a go at Indiana Jones-like heroics) and liberally employ old-fashioned process shots, mattes, paintings, and other pre-digital special effects. The incomparable Hyde-White looks as if he's having fun alternately harrumphing and encouraging good old British resolve, while Sanders effortlessly portrays, for the umpteenth time, his brand of enchanting villainy. Directed by Robert Stevenson (Mary Poppins). In Search of the Castaways is presented here in its original, full-screen format. --Tom Keogh
In Search of the Castaways Reviews:
In Search of the Castaways 
2009-08-10 - I love Hayley Mills movies and was delighted that I was able to get this movie on DVD. I have many of her movies on VHS and want to slowly turn those into DVDs. I would highly advise anyone who is a Hayley Mills fan to add this to your collection. Added bonus that it also has Maurice Chevalier in the movie. What more could you ask for in a good family movie.
Why full-screen? Disney is missing the boat. 
2009-07-08 - There are countless DVDs I would purchase from Disney if they would just release them in the original widescreen format they were filmed in. I just viewed a rented version of this film only to discover that "Castaways" is only available in full screen format! This is a fine film and there is no good excuse for it to be limited to a full screen format. I remember seeing it in the theater as a young boy - and even then I vividly recall the widescreen picture. Don't buy this "shot in full screen" excuse. That is simply not true. The biggest question is, "Why is Disney continuing to do this?" Especially since all the new TVs are widescreen. Doesn't make good business sense at all. In the meantime, the consumer is getting short-changed.
Fantastic fun
2009-04-03 - It is one of the greatest movies that has ever been made.
The story and all of the adventures that take place all over the globe is fun.
In Search Of The Widescreen Version!
2009-03-29 - Ok, Disney! Let's get our act together (remember, even Hayley Mills sang "Let's Get Together). Please release this fun adventure in widscreen.
Great movie!
2009-03-19 - Fun! Great for the whole family. Some good lessons for kids to learn in it too ("Enjoy it!").
Enjoy!
