About this title: Johan David Wyss' novel Swiss Family Robinson had been in print for nearly fifty years before the first film version was made by RKO in 1940. Thomas Mitchell is top-billed as the patriarch of the Robinson family, who, as in the book, are shipwrecked on a tropical island and compelled to bring the edicts and values of civilization to their tiny patch of the world. To give the story a bit of topicality, screenwriters Walter Ferris, Gene Towne and Graham Baker contrive to depict the Robinsons as refugees from a foreign war (Napoleonic rather than Hitler-inspired). Produced independently by The ...
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Description: Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Terry Kilburn, Tim Holt. New in new packaging. 1940 Run time: 92. The beloved adventure novel by Johann David Wyss springs to vivid life in this well-mounted adaptation. Oscar-winning actor Mitchell plays the Swiss watchmaker who decides to move his family to Australia only to be marooned on a tropical island. Together with his three oldest sons (Bartholomew, Kilburn, Holt), the resourceful patriarch builds a lavish tree house and makes the ... read more
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