It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
In Search of the Castaways (1962) – Musical #790

Studio:
Walt Disney Productions

Director:
Robert Stevenson

Starring:
Hayley Mills, Maurice Chevalier, George Sanders, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Michael Anderson Jr., Antonio Cifariello, Keith Hamshere, Wilfrid Brambell, Jack Gwillim, Ronald Fraser

Plot:
Set in 1858, Mary (Mills) and Robert Grant (Hamshere) believe their father, Capt. Grant, is alive though he has been reported dead in a shipwreck, because Jacques Paganel (Chevalier) found a letter in a bottle from Capt. Grant. The trio enlists the help of Lord Glenarvan (Hyde-White) and his son Jon (Anderson Jr.) to go on an expedition to search for their father.

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