SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON in the pre-Disney edition starred Thomas Mitchell as the father who ships off his family in the hopes of making his children men. Its an often good looking film that is much too slow to really be of much interest. Frankly part of the problem is that the film takes 20 minutes to get to the point where the family ends up on the island. and by then you just want then to get on with it. The rest of them film is them building and rebuilding their shelters as storms come. The high point of the film is a spider bite late in the game. I can kind of see why my mom loved this film but I also know why its fallen by the wayside. 5 out of 10
Review of Swiss Family Robinson
