The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson
1998
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A classic adventure film based on the novel by Johann David Wyss. A Swiss family is stranded on a tropical island and faces pirates, wildlife and challenges of survival.
- (18K)
- Adventure, Family
- Ken Annakin
- 1960-12-21
The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson, "The Swiss Robinson") is a novel by the Swiss author Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia, goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies.
- Johann David Wyss
- 328
- 1812
- 1812
Box office. $40 million. Swiss Family Robinson is a 1960 American adventure film starring John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Tommy Kirk, and Kevin Corcoran in a tale of a shipwrecked family building an island home.
- $40 million
- December 21, 1960
- $4 million
- William Alwyn
In this family film, the Robinson clan -- mother (Dorothy McGuire), father (John Mills) and their three sons, Fritz, Ernst and Francis -- flee the reign of Napoleon to start afresh in New...
- (874)
- Ken Annakin
- G
- John Mills
3.91. 106,120 ratings3,035 reviews. While traveling on a ship, a Swiss pastor, his wife and four sons encounter a violent storm that abruptly transports them to a tropical island. They attempt to navigate the desolate shore but face looming danger and an unforeseen presence.
- (106K)
- Hardcover
The Swiss Family Robinson, novel for children completed and edited by Johann Rudolf Wyss, published in German as Der schweizerische Robinson (1812–27). The original manuscript of the novel had been written by Wyss’s father, Johann David, a clergyman, for and with the aid of his four sons.
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