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?
In Search of the Castaways (film) In Search of the Castaways is a 1962 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Hayley Mills and Maurice Chevalier in a tale about a worldwide search for a shipwrecked sea captain. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson from a screenplay by Lowell S. Hawley based upon Jules Verne's 1868 adventure novel "Captain Grant's Children". The film was Mills' third of six for the Disney Studios.
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.