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Swiss Family Robinson is a sparkling family film, full of imagination, adventure, great scenery and diverting animal stars, Swiss Family Robinson holds up beautifully, decade after decade. One of the best Disney live-action films, it will delight children and keep parents entertained as well.It was released in 1960 and it was based on Johann David Wyss’s novel Der Schweizerische Robinson. It’s the story of a shipwrecked family who starts living on an island. The family is going to New Guinea but due to storm and the pirates captain leave the family in an island. Its screen play was written by Lowell S. Hawley and directed by Ken Annakin.

Though Swiss Family Robinson received the mix reviews but most of the reviews were positive and it grossed $40,000,000. It was proved the ‘highest grossing film of the year.’ During the same year films Exodus, Psycho and Spartacus were also released but no one could break its record. The story was a somewhat preachy but still entertaining attempt to teach children values and self-reliance, and was written and rewritten over the years in many different versions and languages.

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