The Mooncussers: Wake Of Disaster is the second of the two part Mooncusser saga that Walt Disney aired on his Wonderful World Of Color program back in 1962. The mystery as to who is behind The Mooncussers is finally solved.
Rian Garrick sent to investigate Mooncusser activity on Long Island in the 1840s is fast figuring out that this group of beached pirates who wreck and plunder ships caught on the reefs with misdirected signal fires that Robert Emhardt the owner of a fish cannery is head of the Mooncussers. But faster figuring that out is young Kevin Corcoran, but the boy is disappointed that salty old Oscar Homolka is part of the pirate gang.
In this and the first Mooncusser episode the key is the chemistry between Homolka and Corcoran. Since Walt Disney did a feature film version of Treasure Island he can be forgiven for ripping himself off. But you would have to be blind not to recognize the relationship between these two is taken from Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins. And Homolka with those massive eyebrows and expressive face doesn't let any scenes get stolen by one of Disney's best known child stars Kevin Corcoran.
Wake Of Disaster keeps up the fine work of the first part of the show and The Mooncussers remains one of the best known of the Disney films back in my adolescent days. I do so wish the Magic Kingdom would launch a nostalgia channel so that old folks like me could see these shows instead of the kids that the studio is marketing today in their programming.
Rian Garrick sent to investigate Mooncusser activity on Long Island in the 1840s is fast figuring out that this group of beached pirates who wreck and plunder ships caught on the reefs with misdirected signal fires that Robert Emhardt the owner of a fish cannery is head of the Mooncussers. But faster figuring that out is young Kevin Corcoran, but the boy is disappointed that salty old Oscar Homolka is part of the pirate gang.
In this and the first Mooncusser episode the key is the chemistry between Homolka and Corcoran. Since Walt Disney did a feature film version of Treasure Island he can be forgiven for ripping himself off. But you would have to be blind not to recognize the relationship between these two is taken from Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins. And Homolka with those massive eyebrows and expressive face doesn't let any scenes get stolen by one of Disney's best known child stars Kevin Corcoran.
Wake Of Disaster keeps up the fine work of the first part of the show and The Mooncussers remains one of the best known of the Disney films back in my adolescent days. I do so wish the Magic Kingdom would launch a nostalgia channel so that old folks like me could see these shows instead of the kids that the studio is marketing today in their programming.
