RKO's 1940 version of 'The Swiss Family Robinson' isn't as fun as the later Disney movie, for one thing there are no pirates. I was waiting the whole film for the pirates to show up, but instead the 'climatic' event at the end was a spider bite. The period effects of the film sometimes have a guzzy, somewhat surreal quality, which I liked, and we get much more context and Robinson back story, even as this film is 33 minutes shorter. Mr. Robinson as played by Thomas Mitchell is more a tyrannical kook here, uprooting his whole family in the first place because he though his boys spoiled and insufficiently Christian. There is an extra boy in this movie two, a toddler, and the moms flightier as well. I was curious to see this movie, but not sure it was worth my 93 minutes. **
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