4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1156

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #1156 Universal
Grade: 9.2
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0026461012
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 11/10/2011
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Walt Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson 12/60 File Copy This was popular enough at Disney that a Swiss Family attraction was at the theme park for many years.

Photo Cover: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Sessue Hayakawa, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Cecil Parker

Script: (movie adaptation)
Pencils & Inks: John Ushler

This is the second best of nine copies graded to date. A single 9.6 is at the top. 04/13. I bought this comic graded, as is, from Heritage Auctions.


Table of Contents
1. 0. Swiss Family Robinson
Walt Disney Swiss Family Robinson
2. 1. Swiss Family Robinson
Swiss Family Robinson
3. 2. Swiss Family Robinson
Walt Disney Swiss Family Robinson
4. 3. Tiger Hunt
5. 4. The Sea Thieves This is a single page cartoon and is the back cover of this copy.
6. 5. AD on the bck cover of some copies of this issue.


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This film has the distinction of being Disney’s first film shot in wide screen Pnavision.. Wikipedia brings some other interesting details to light below:

Swiss Family Robinson is a 1960 British-American[1] feature film starring John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur and Janet Munro in a tale of a shipwrecked family building an island home, loosely based on the 1812 novel Der Schweizerische Robinson (literally, The Swiss Robinson) by Johann David Wyss. The film was directed by Ken Annakin and shot in Tobago and Pinewood Studios outside London.[3] It was the second feature film version of the story (the first film version was released by RKO in 1940) and was a commercial success.
Swiss Family Robinson was the first wide screen Disney film shot with Panavision lenses. When shooting in wide screen, Disney had nearly always used a matted wide screen or filmed the movie in CinemaScope.
Reception
The film premiered in New York City on December 10, 1960 and was released for the general US audience on December 21, 1960. It received generally positive reviews by critics and gained large revenue at the box office. All together, the film grossed roughly $40,000,000,[12] making it the highest grossing film of 1960 and beating other hits of that year such as Psycho, Spartacus, and Exodus at the box office.[13] Adjusted for ticket price inflation, the box office revenue is $427,773,600, making it one of the biggest hits of all time.
The movie was re-released in 1969 and earned $6.4 million in rentals in North America. [14]
The film currently holds an 82% approval rating at the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes.[15]
Upon the film's initial release, New York Times film critic Howard Thompson lauded the film by writing, "it's hard to imagine how the picture could be better as a rousing, humorous and gentle-hearted tale of family love amid primitive isolation and dangers."[16] In his Family Guide to Movies on Video, Henry Herx wrote: "[N]icely directed by Ken Annakin, much of the fun for children will come from the delightful and inventive conveniences the family builds and their relationships with the island's wildlife".[17]
[edit] Comparison with the book
The film makes many substantial changes to the plot of the original book, among them:
• The pirates and Roberta do not appear in the novel. A young lady named Emily comes to live with the family instead, with her two young daughters. They were shipwrecked on a neighboring island.
• In the novel, the family builds a number of structures, including a much less elaborate treehouse, but ultimately settles in a cave.
• The novel includes a fourth son named Jack who is the third in order of age.
• Many more large mammals, including bears, jackels, buffalo and walruses, are present in the book, while only tigers, elephants, zebras and (though a reptile) an anaconda are present in the film.
• At the end of the novel, Ernst returns to Europe while the rest of the family remains on the island.
• In the book the family is headed to Australia, in this film they are headed toward the German colony of New Guinea
• Turk is the name of one of the dogs while the other is named Flora in the novel, while Turk is accompanied by Duke in the film.
[edit] Remake
On December 12, 2004, Variety announced that a remake of Swiss Family Robinson was in development at Walt Disney Studios with Mandeville Films co-producing the film.[18] In June 2005, Variety confirmed that director Jonathan Mostow would helm the director's chair for the film.[19] It was to be produced by David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman.[19] Production on the film never began and the film was believed to be shelved until in early 2009 when it was announced by /Film that the remake was still in the works. By this time, the film was renamed The Robinsons and "designed to star Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith and all three of the Smith kids - Trey, Jaden and Willow."[20] As of 2012 there have been no official announcements, casting or setting of production dates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Family_Robinson_(1960_film)
 
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