Swiss Family Robinson
by Ken Annakin
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Actor: Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, John Mills, Sessue HayakawaDirector: Ken Annakin
Cinematographer: Harry Waxman
Editor: Peter Boita
Writer: Lowell S. Hawley
Writer: Johann David Wyss
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 128 minutes
Release Date: 1997-03-04
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Publisher: Buena Vista Distribution Company
Studio: Buena Vista Distribution Company
VHS Movie Reviews of Swiss Family Robinson
Movie Review: great family movie
Summary: 5 Stars
what can i say that hasn't been said about this classic. it's a great family movie. great way the family comes together to defend itself. great way the boys are entrusted to go out and work for themselves to find a solution. lots of fun and excitement. is a little violent/graphic for a family movie, but no surprises over anything else.
Summary of Swiss Family Robinson
The Disney touch is all over this grand, colorful version of the Johann Wyss adventure of a European family set off for the new world of New Guinea. The film opens on a ship jostled and torn by a raging storm while a family struggles to make it through alive. Tossed into a reef near a deserted tropical island, father John Mills takes charge and the family soon turns their island prison into a veritable paradise. Their multilevel tree house, built in record time, is complete with running water and a working pipe organ scavenged from the ship, while their grand yard is abloom in English roses. As a tale of hardship and pioneer pluck, the tale is pure fantasy, but as entertainment it's energetic and appealing. The island is impossibly populated by ostriches, zebras, lions, and elephants, a private zoo that delights the youngest boy and offers plenty of comic relief. The two older brothers discover even wilder life when they rescue the prisoner of oriental pirates (led by hard-bitten Sessue Hayakawa). There's little real danger anywhere in the film--even the climactic battle with the pirates is a cartoonish affair, with coconut bombs and nonlethal booby traps, until the final desperate, deadly moments. Hardly a faithful adaptation of the novel, but a lush, beautifully photographed film and an entertaining adventure safe for all ages. Dorothy McGuire costars as the proper, worry-prone mother. (Ages 5 and older) --Sean AxmakerKids & Family VHS Video
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