Swiss Family Robinson [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	John Mills Dorothy McGuire James MacArthur Janet Munro Sessue Hayakawa
	Video by:	Buena Vista Distribution Company
	Sales Rank:	97092

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Actor(s):
John Mills
Dorothy McGuire
James MacArthur
Janet Munro
Sessue Hayakawa

Creators:
Harry Waxman (Cinematographer)
Peter Boita (Editor)
Basil Keys (Producer)
Bill Anderson (Producer)
Walt Disney (Producer)
Johann David Wyss (Writer)
Lowell S. Hawley (Writer)

Director(s):
Ken Annakin

Recording label: Buena Vista Distribution Company
EAN: 0786936411638
Binding: VHS Tape
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC,
Release Date: 1995-05-15
Universal product code (UPC): 786936411638
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: G (General Audience)

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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 Axmaker

Running time: 126 minutes