Capt. Grant's Family
About Capt. Grant's Family
The crew of Lord Glenarvan's yacht Duncan cuts open a shark and finds a bottle asking for help. Water has spoiled the note, which still places Captain Grant's wreck on the 37th parallel south and leaves the longitude blank. London refuses a rescue. Glenarvan's wife sends the Duncan out with Grant's son and daughter. The search crosses Patagonia, passes Australia and New Zealand, and finds Grant on the island of Tabor.
Cast & crew
More about Capt. Grant's Family
Vladimir Vaynshtok and David Gutman directed Oleg Leonidov's adaptation of Jules Verne's 1868 novel In Search of the Castaways, released September 15, 1936. Wikidata credits Arkadi Koltsaty as cinematographer. Wikipedia's production note calls Alexander Ptushko the cinematographer who taught Yakov Segel to ride in one night at Nalchik.
Themes
Background
In the film the Admiralty's refusal is tied to Grant's Scottish patriotism and his plan to found a Nova Scotia.
Making
Segel later said Ptushko, who had served in the First Cavalry Army, taught him to ride in a single night after the first boy refused the horses.
Audiences
The English Wikipedia says the film was popular on release.
Look
Wikidata credits Arkadi Koltsaty. The English Wikipedia calls Alexander Ptushko the cinematographer on the Nalchik shoot.
Music
Isaak Dunayevsky wrote the score, including the overture, "Song of the Captain," sung by Cherkasov, and "Robert's Song" ("Sing us a song, merry wind"), to lyrics by Vasily Lebedev-Kumach.
Notes
- Nikolay Cherkasov plays Jacques Paganel, Yuri Yuryev plays Captain Tom Grant, and Yakov Segel plays Robert Grant.
- The child first cast as Robert was afraid of horses, so Segel was called in during the Nalchik location work.
- A 1941 Verne film, Mysterious Island, followed this one. In 1986 In Search of Captain Grant reused Dunayevsky's melody.
- The 45th anniversary was marked at the Udarnik cinema with Segel and two other surviving crew members.
Scenes
- A shark cut open on the Duncan yields the bottle with Grant's damaged message.
- The party finds Captain Grant on Tabor, also on the 37th parallel south.
Influenced by
- Jules Verne's In Search of the Castaways (1868)
Influenced
- Mysterious Island (1941)
- In Search of Captain Grant (1986)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1936. Дети Капитана Гранта.webm)
