Loosely based on the daniel defoe novel, robinson crusoe, lt. Robin crusoe is an allthumbs navy pilot who ditches his plane after engine trouble. Robin crusoe dick van dyke is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. Robin crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. Navy pilot crash lands on a south sea island where he has a number of wacky adventures. He survives a riotous raft ride only to find himself marooned on a lush tropical island. A spirited disney comedy based on the robinson crusoe legend. Disneyroadshow home video australia trailer for the film lt. Like in the daniel defoe story, crusoe finds himself alone on a deserted island, but this time he arrives there after ejecting from his disabled plane on a mission in the south pacific. When we returned to san diego the disney crew left to go make the movie, and kitty hawk left for the western pacific and viet nam. Were sorry but jwapp doesnt work properly without javascript enabled. Robin crusoe, usn was held right there on the ship.
As the name suggests, this is a robinson crusoe story, and as the star suggests, its purely done for the comedy. Walt disney is credited as retlaw yensid for the movies original story. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house, finds an abandoned submarine with lots of gadgets that he can use, and also finds a marooned chimp from the us space program and a. Navy pilot dick van dyke marooned with headhunters akim tamiroff daughter nancy kwan. When we returned eight months later, the world premiere of lt. Rent, buy, and watch movies and tv shows with vudu. He had also been interested in doing something with the robinson crusoe story by daniel dafoe and it was his idea to do a modern spin on the tale. A navy pilot dick van dyke is marooned on an island with a headhunters akim tamiroff daughter nancy kwan and outcast tribal women. He survives a riotous raft ride only to find himself marooned on a lush tropical island with a pokerplaying chimp, a gadgetrich abandoned sub, and wednesday nancy kwan a wild but beautiful native girl in exile for disobeying her overprotective father. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house and begins to adjust to life. Now, decades later, i have come to see that dick was indeed a very funny man and his physical humor is what drives his most successful projects. The character name of robin crusoe was a spoof of robinson crusoe whereas the character name of wednesday or girl wednesday was a parody of friday or man friday both from daniel defoes classic novel robinson crusoe which the movie is a sendup of. With dick van dyke, nancy kwan, akim tamiroff, arthur malet.
Robin crusoe dick van dyke is an allthumbs navy pilot who ditches his plane after engine trouble. Navy pilot who becomes a castaway on a tropical island. Navy pilot lieutenant robinson crusoe in one of disneys weakest comedies. This was before i had seen reruns of the dick van dyke show. Plus, watch over 4,500 free movies on vudu movies on us. Escape to an island full of castaway comedy as disney favorite dick van. Robin crusoe usn is a 1966 comedy film released and scripted by walt disney, and starring dick van dyke as a u. Watch online or on your favorite connected device with the vudu app. Dick van dyke stars in this disney comedy as a latterday robinson crusoe who crashes his naval jet onto a small pacific island. He survives a riotous raft ride only to find himself marooned on a lush tropical island with a pokerplaying chimp, a gadgetrich abandoned sub, and wednesday a wild but beautiful native girl in exile for disobeying her overprotective father. Robin crusoe, played by dick van dyke, dressed in clothes made of island material. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house, finds an abandoned submarine with lots of gadgets that he can use, and also finds a marooned chimp from the us space program and a native girl named wednesday who was. Tribe meets white man for the first time original footage 15 duration.
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