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Swiss Family Robinson film 1940 advertisement. Swiss Family Robinson is a 1940 American film released by RKO Radio Pictures and directed by Edward Ludwig. It is based on the 1812 novel The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss and is the first feature-length film version of the story.
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. The ship's crew is lost, but the family and ...
The film is based upon Der Schweizerische Robinson (translated as The Swiss Family Robinson), a book written by Johann David Wyss. [4] RKO Pictures had previously made an adaptation in 1940, directed by Edward Ludwig. [5] After watching that movie, Walt Disney and Bill Anderson decided to produce their own version of the story. [4]
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Tommy Kirk, the actor known for playing Travis Coates in “Old Yeller” and several other Disney films, was found dead in his Las Vegas home Tuesday. He was 79. Kirk’s longtime friend Paul ...
In early 1940 it was announced Holt and Ginger Rogers would be reunited in an adaptation of The Enchanted Cottage. [20] The film was not made until several years later with different stars. Instead he was assigned to play Fritz Robinson in the studio's expensive adaptation of Swiss Family Robinson (1940).
Bartholomew with Wendy Barrie (1940) In 1939, Universal teamed him for the third and fourth times with Jackie Cooper in The Spirit of Culver and Two Bright Boys . For RKO distribution, he performed in Swiss Family Robinson and Tom Brown's School Days in 1940.