Three time Oscar winner Walter Brennan gets perhaps his only leading role in this pleasant B comedy where he plays a yacht captain determined to turn the greedy and spoiled family members into responsible people. That includes Georgia Cain, the widow of his late business partner, his spoiled daughter Mary Brian and Caine's equally spoiled son, Lyle Talbot. In order to accomplish this, Brennan takes them out on his yacht and purposely shipwrecks them so they have to learn some responsibility while trying to survive on a deserted island.
This early variation of Gilligan's Island is an enjoyable romp about morals and the desperate need for survival skills of people who would panic if they broke a finger nail. Caine, playing a very snooty society matron who basically infiltrated her way into his mansion while he was away on his yacht, is quite imperiously funny yet changes the most. Talbot and Brian, arguing like cats and dogs throughout most of the film find themselves tied together by the need to survive on the island and their efforts to come to a common bond result in some very funny situations.
It is very amusing to see Walter Brennan playing against type, clad in a tuxedo in early scenes and often speaking in plain terms like his earthy characters would in the types of roles that made him one of the most popular character actors of the golden age of cinema, and certainly the most popular among the extras which he had risen out of before winning the big prize at the Academy Awards during the first few years of the supporting acting awards.pretty good for a lower budget B movie comedy, this is well worth seeing even if just to see what Brennan can do when he's risen above playing the types of characters that most people remember him for today.
This early variation of Gilligan's Island is an enjoyable romp about morals and the desperate need for survival skills of people who would panic if they broke a finger nail. Caine, playing a very snooty society matron who basically infiltrated her way into his mansion while he was away on his yacht, is quite imperiously funny yet changes the most. Talbot and Brian, arguing like cats and dogs throughout most of the film find themselves tied together by the need to survive on the island and their efforts to come to a common bond result in some very funny situations.
It is very amusing to see Walter Brennan playing against type, clad in a tuxedo in early scenes and often speaking in plain terms like his earthy characters would in the types of roles that made him one of the most popular character actors of the golden age of cinema, and certainly the most popular among the extras which he had risen out of before winning the big prize at the Academy Awards during the first few years of the supporting acting awards.pretty good for a lower budget B movie comedy, this is well worth seeing even if just to see what Brennan can do when he's risen above playing the types of characters that most people remember him for today.