Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.
| Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. | |
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Original theatrical poster
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| Directed by | Byron Paul |
| Produced by |
Ron W. Miller Bill Walsh Walt Disney (uncredited) |
| Written by |
Walt Disney Don DaGradi Bill Walsh Daniel Defoe (novel) |
| Starring |
Dick Van Dyke Nancy Kwan |
| Music by | Robert F. Brunner |
| Cinematography | William E. Snyder |
| Edited by | Cotton Warburton |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Distribution |
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Release date
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July 29, 1966 |
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Running time
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110 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $22,565,634 |
Lt. Robin Crusoe USN is a 1966 comedy film released and scripted by Walt Disney, and starring Dick Van Dyke as a U.S. Navy pilot who becomes a castaway on a tropical island. Some filming took place in San Diego, while a majority of the film was shot on Kauai, Hawaii.
The story was loosely based on Daniel Defoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe. It was Walt Disney's idea to make the adaptation, and this is the only film in which he received a story credit (as "Retlaw Yensid").
While flying a routine mission for the U.S. Navy from his aircraft carrier, an emergency causes Lieutenant Robin "Rob" Crusoe (Van Dyke) to eject from his F-8 Crusader into the ocean. Crusoe drifts on the ocean in an emergency life raft for several days and nights until landing on an uninhabited island. Crusoe builds a shelter for himself, fashions new clothing out of available materials, and begins to scout the island, discovering an abandoned Japanese submarine from World War II. Scouring the submarine, Crusoe also discovers a NASA astrochimp named Floyd, played by Dinky.
Using tools and blueprints found in the submarine, Crusoe and Floyd construct a Japanese pavilion, a golf course, and a mail delivery system for sending bottles containing missives to his fiancee out to sea.
Soon after, Crusoe finds that the island is not entirely uninhabited when he encounters a beautiful island girl (Nancy Kwan), whom he names Wednesday. Wednesday recounts that due to her unwillingness to marry, her chieftain father, Tanamashuhi (Akim Tamiroff), plans to sacrifice her and her sisters to Kaboona, an immense effigy on the island with whom he pretends to communicate.
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