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Swiss Family Robinson Overview:

Swiss Family Robinson (1960) was a Adventure - Family Film directed by Ken Annakin and produced by Walt Disney and Bill Anderson.

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Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

By Beatrice on Jan 3, 2017 From Flickers in Time

Swiss Family Robinson Directed by Ken Annakin Written by Lowell S. Hawley from a novel by Johann David Wyss 1960/USA Walt Disney Productions Repeat viewing?/Netflix rental This fun fantasy/adventure is for the whole family. A Swiss family is shipwrecked en route to colonial New Guinea when its sh... Read full article

Swiss Family Robinson (1940) and (1960)

By Orson De Welles on Nov 20, 2014 From Classic Film Freak

Share This! THRILL TO The Fabled Tree-House! — The Wild Animal Race! — The Great Pirate Attack! Disney has the rights to two features based on the famous Wyss novel.  Yes, that’s right; two!  Most of us are surely familiar with the extremely popular 1960 version produced by Disne... Read full article

Swiss Family Robinson ( 1960 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Aug 26, 2014 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

"It was a good thing we set out to do. We were right, and all that hasn't changed just because we were shipwrecked." Papa Robinson's plans of providing a new home for his family in the burgeoning colony of New Guinea go awry when the ship carrying them from Switzerland to the new land gets shipwrec... Read full article

Swiss Family Robinson ( 1960 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Aug 26, 2014 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

"It was a good thing we set out to do. We were right, and all that hasn't changed just because we were shipwrecked." Papa Robinson's plans of providing a new home for his family in the burgeoning colony of New Guinea go awry when the ship carrying them from Switzerland to the new land gets shipwrec... Read full article

Swiss Family Robinson ( 1960 )

By The Metzinger Sisters on Aug 26, 2014 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

"It was a good thing we set out to do. We were right, and all that hasn't changed just because we were shipwrecked." Papa Robinson's plans of providing a new home for his family in the burgeoning colony of New Guinea go awry when the ship carrying them from Switzerland to the new land gets shipwrec... Read full article

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Swiss Family Robinson Quotes:

[trying to think of a way to get off the ship-wrecked boat]
Ernst Robinson: Why don't we put up a distress flag?
Father Robinson: Don't you think we look distressed enough? Ernst, anyone who sees a ship stuck on the rocks might possibly guess it's in trouble.
[Reflecting on their island paradise]
Mother: It's wonderful for today, but what about tomorrow?
Francis Robinson: Are we ever going to open these other packages?
Mother Robinson: Those are for Fritz and Ernst.
Francis Robinson: But suppose they don't come back? Suppose they got "et" up?
Father Robinson: Francis, you've had a long day, and it's past your bedtime.
Francis Robinson: But it's Christmas.
Fritz Robinson: What's that?
Father Robinson: That? Oh, that's a quarantine flag. Warning that there's Black Death aboard.
Ernst Robinson: How did you know that?
Father Robinson: Well *I* do a bit of reading, too, you know.
Francis Robinson: You don't have to worry anymore: I got my tiger!
Mother Robinson: [awed] He's got his tiger.
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Swiss Family Robinson Facts
The anaconda was actually pregnant during filming.
When the studio acquired the rights to Johann David Wyss' novel, they essentially junked about 90% of it. Ken Annakin and his technicians brainstormed all the things they'd like to have seen in a desert island picture, storyboarded their wishlist and then handed it all over to screenwriter Lowell Hawley.
Disney has officially announced that a remake is in development with Mandeville Films co-producing the movie. It is scheduled to be released in 2012.
Walt Disney never traveled out to Tobago to visit the shoot.
As revealed by director Ken Annakin on the DVD commentary, the trapped zebra was subjected to electric shock treatment to make it move about, a practice that is now illegal in Hollywood movies.
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