Review of In Search of the Castaways

Young Miss Hayley Mills single - handedly rescues "In search of the castaways" from the state of stuporific banality where M. Chevalier,Mr Hyde White and Master Anderson had abandoned it.It is poorly directed,sloppily edited,studio - bound and mediocre in every department.Miss Mills,trouper that she is,grasps this pretty dreadful film and by sheer force of personality gives it what small merit it has. A plot as full of non - sequiturs as any Monty Python movie does not bear even the most cursory examination.The songs,surely merely a device to divert attention from the fact that M.Chevalier has little to do except curl his lips and roll his "r"s and look roguish every now and again. Mr Hyde White does his customary grumpy old posh geezer schtick and nods his head a lot. The FX are crude even by the standards of the day and I should think once the movie made 50 bucks at the box office it went into profit. I saw Miss Mills in "Wild at heart" on TV the other night and she is still in the alchemy business.Some people,eh?