Swiss Family Robinson is a 1960 American Technicolor feature film starring John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, and Sessue Hayakawa in a tale of a shipwrecked family building an island home. The screenplay by Lowell S. Hawley was loosely based upon the 1812 novel Der Schweizerische Robinson by Johann David Wyss. The film was directed by Ken Annakin, shot in Tobago. It was the second feature film version of the story and was a commercial success. Swiss Family Robinson was one of the rare wide screen Disney films shot with Panavision lenses. When shooting in wide screen, Disney had nearly always used... a matted wide screen or filmed the movie in CinemaScope. A family on their way to New Guinea is chased by pirates into a storm. The captain and crew abandon the ship leaving the family shipwrecked off an uninhabited island. Father and his two eldest sons Fritz and Ernst salvage as much as they can from the wreck including livestock, tools, and even an organ. As they gather what can be removed from the ship, the pirates return and begin shooting at the ship.
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| Release date: | December 10, 1960 |
| Directed by: | Ken Annakin |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 126 Minutes |
| Producer: | Bill Anderson, Walt Disney |
| Editor: | Peter Boita |
| Music by: | William Alwyn |
| Cinematography: | Harry Waxman |
| Screenplay by: | Lowell S. Hawley |
| Estimated budget: | $4,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | The Swiss Family Robinson |
| Genre: | Adventure |