VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

leethomas-11621 Movie is conventional when as an adventure it should be free-spirited. Where's the adventure in trying to replicate the society and conditions of the place you are escaping from? Movie has dated but it was going out-of-date even when it was made. Animals are extraordinary but there is no attempt to include them in the film plot beyond their being objects for fear or fun. Women are side-lined and are mostly in irritatingly negative and morally "sensible" roles. Music is over-used to death!

EdwardCarter An absolutely stupid, corny story with terrible bad acting and the most annoying movie character ever (played by Kevin Cocoran). John Mills, a mediocre actor at best, was OK here as the father but that awful third-rate actress Dorothy Macguire was just terrible as his wife. Like most Disney crap, the whole thing is too Americanized. The "acting" by James Macarthur and Tommy Kirk is absolutely awful. Kirk was later fired from the Disney company for sexually abusing an underage boy. How he did not serve time in jail I do not know. Janet Munro sticks out like a sore thumb and the idea of this twenty-something woman with large breasts being mistaken for a young boy is absolutely stupid beyond belief. Thankfully this crap could never be made today, not least because of the way the animals are treated.0/10.

ptusler1 This was one of the first movies I ever saw in a movie theater. It's a lot of fun, imaginative, optimistic, and entertaining. It's still a great family movie. That's all it presumes to be. It's a great vehicle to demonstrate ingenuity in the face of adversity. Classic Disney fare, naive, simple and demonstrating high ideals, morals, and ethics. As to those that think there was any cruelty to animals during the filming: really? Come on. Do you really think the film crew would sic a pair of dogs on a tiger just to film it? This should be re-released to the public, even if only on TV. It's worth letting new generations enjoy it. It's a shame Disneyland has changed the "Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse" into the Tarzan tree-house...

flagpants John Mills was a fine actor, but in this he's a bit like a rocket engine attached to hot-air balloon in this.I'm a fan of old movies, but found this example to be a pretty poor one and not recommended for anyone interested in giving old classics a shot.It's certainly not short of budget or "adventure". Things are happening constantly. Including the most annoying soundtrack I can ever recall. With peculiar incidental music that accompanies absolutely every tiny thing that happens along the way. Constantly.What I found most disturbing, by today's standards, was the many examples of animal cruelty in the film. Including a tiger being harassed by 2 great dane dogs (potentially lethal for the dogs and distressing for the tiger), riding an ostrich and a zebra trapped in mud. All done with real performing animals.Couldn't be rated as a true old classic in my opinion. Probably only thought of fondly by people who saw it when they were young.