

In Search of the Castaways(1962)
"A Thousand Thrills, And Hayley Mills!"
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.
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Maurice Chevalier
Jacques Paganel

Hayley Mills
Mary Grant

George Sanders
Thomas Ayerton

Wilfrid Hyde-White
Lord Glenarvan

Michael Anderson Jr.
John Glenarvan

Antonio Cifariello
Indian Chief

Wilfrid Brambell
Bill Gaye

Jack Gwillim
Captain Grant

Ronald Fraser
Guard at Dockyard Gate

Norman Bird
Senior Yacht Guard
George Murcell
Ayerton's Assistant
Inia Te Wiata
Maori Chief

Mark Dignam
Rich man at Yacht party

David Spenser
South American Guide

Milo Sperber
Crooked sailor

Roger Delgado
Patagonian prisoner
Barry Keegan
Irish claimant
Maxwell Shaw
Sailor

Andreas Malandrinos
Crooked sailor
Keith Hamshere
Robert Grant

Joss Ackland
Yacht Seaman
Michael Wynne
Crooked sailor
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