with Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best and Freddie Bartholomew
The film of the famous adventure book by Johann David Wyss. The story takes place in the early, part of the nineteenth century. Mr. Robinson, a Swiss watch-maker, decides to take his family out of England to the Colonies so that his sons can become tough men Instead of fops or book-worms. The ship is wrecked, the crew is lost and the Robinson family is cast up on an uninhabited island where they spend two years before being rescued.
(to 17.00)
(Morris Sweden is appearing in 'The Kid from Stratford'; Mai Bacon in 'Cage Me a Peacock')
(sound only)
(to 22.15)