Which Walt Disney production was based on Jules Verne's 1868 novel "Captain Grant's Children," The Misadventures of Merlin Jones or In Search of the Castaways?
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones The Misadventures of Merlin Jones is a 1964 Walt Disney production starring Tommy Kirk and Annette Funicello. Kirk plays a college student who experiments with mind-reading and hypnotism, leading to run-ins with a local judge. Funicello plays his girlfriend (and sings the film's title song written by brothers Robert and Richard Sherman).
Guns in the Heather Guns in the Heather is a 1969 Walt Disney adventure film directed by Robert Butler and produced by Ron Miller. It stars Kurt Russell, Glenn Corbett and Alfred Burke. It was originally broadcast in parts on "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" in the United States under the title "Guns in the Heather", then re-edited for a European theatrical release under the English title, The Secret of Boyne Castle. It was re-broadcast on American television in 1978 under the title The Spybusters. The story is based on the 1963 novel "Guns in the Heather", by Lockhart Amerman.