James Garner

Vera Miles

Eric Shea

Robert Culp

Manu Tupou

Gregory Sierra

Shug Fisher

Kim Kahana

Buddy Joe Hooker

Elizabeth Smith

Nephi Hannemann

Lito Capiña

Ralph Hanalei

Lee Woodd

Luis Delgado

Patrick Sullivan Burke

Jerry Velasco

Herb Taylor

Vincent McEveety

Lynn F. Reynolds

Andrew Jackson

Don Tait

Cotton Warburton

John A. Kuri

Chuck Keehne

Robert J. Schiffer

Emily Sundby

Ron Miller

John B. Mansbridge

La Rue Matheron

Christopher Hibler

Robert Clatworthy

Winston Hibler

Robert F. Brunner

Richard M. Bluel

Hugh Benson

Harrison Ellenshaw

Richard Caffey

Gary Daigler

Frank Regula

Evelyn Kennedy

Franklyn Marks

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Family

Comedy

Western

The Castaway Cowboy

Walt Disney Productions

United States of America

Not bad, not good.

<em>'The Castaway Cowboy'</em> is a run-of-the-mill live-action offering from Disney. The casting is fine but plain, while the plot is alright if unspectacular and entirely predictable - especially the love story, which is one of the most obvious I think I have ever seen. The humour is decent, probably the best part of this.

James Garner (Costain) and Vera Miles (Henrietta) are a duo once again, following on from their exploits together in <em>'One Little Indian'</em> a year prior. Eric Shea plays Booton, who I feared would be yet another annoying Disney kid actor but he's actually OK all in all.

The villains are extremely forgettable, in fairness Robert Culp (Bryson), Gregory Sierra (Marruja) and Nephi Hannemann (Malakoma) don't get much to work with - unexplored potential; solid actor choices.

This should be far more entertaining, especially as it's an adventure film.

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James Garner ("Costain") is washed up on the beach of an Hawaiian island where he is befriended by a widow "Henrietta" (Vera Miles) and her young son "Booton" (Eric Shea). They are struggling farmers, and so he sets his mind to try to help them out. All of this much to the chagrin of local bigwig "Bryson" (Robert Culp) who has designs on their cattle and on the good lady. The ensuing adventure is actually quite clunkily put together. It mixes mysticism, romance and avarice before an ending that though innovative, I found rather impractical and even a little cruel. It is still quite a fun family film to watch, though - perhaps some of the attitudes to and of the locals might not quite fit nowadays, but viewed in the spirit in which it was made 50 years ago, it is typical of the Disney-style of message mixing adventure and morality, and is just about worth 90 minutes of your time.

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The Castaway Cowboy

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