Swiss Family Robinson

Synopsis: A family in route to New Guinea is shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. They are forced to remain on the island because of the damage to the ship and the pirates that are roaming the islands. They create a home on the island (centering around a huge tree house) and explore the island and its wildlife. Plenty of adventure ensues as the family deals with issues of survival and pirates, and the brothers must learn how to live on the island with an uncertain future.

Genre: Adventure, Family

Director(s): Ken Annakin

Actors: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro

Production: Buena Vista Pictures


IMDB:: 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:: 80%

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: G
Year:: 1960
: 126 min
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- Right, I've got my side.
Hold it down, Fritz.
Come on.
You're very lucky to have them.
I think tomorrow, if the ship's still
there, you and I, and maybe Ernst,
ought to try
and bring in the animals
and anything else we might need.
- How long will we have to stay here?
- I don't know. I just...
I just think we ought to do
everything we can.
What's going on?
Powder was wet.
Aren't you coming to bed?
You have to have some sleep.
- Besides, it's going to rain.
- No, I'm alright.
No-one can go back
and undo what's already done but...
Well, I... want you to know that...
...l'm sorry things didn't work out
the way I wanted them to.
I know.
It would have been better
if we'd just stayed in Bern.
I'm not so sure. Not with Napoleon
trying to grab up more and more.
Fritz and Ernst might both
be in a war. Maybe even you.
No. Better to stay and face things
rather than just running away.
Is it running away to try to find
a new life in a new colony?
Try to give our sons a chance
to live, a chance to be free?
Is that running away?
I keep thinking about all the men
in those other offices
along the Marktgasse. They go on
working at the same old jobs
and manage to find opportunities
for their families,
without running off
to the other side of the world.
We settled all this
before we left home.
It was a good thing we set out to do.
We were right. Nothing has changed
just because we were shipwrecked.
You're always right, aren't you?
We'll get there. I'm sure of it.
Sooner or later
there'll be a ship.
I'll pray for it
with every breath I take.
It's a big land, New Guinea.
For hundreds of years
there'll be new colonies,
a great new world to build.
No limit to what a man can do.
If we're a couple of months
late getting there, it won't matter.
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