The New Swiss Family Robinson

Jul 8, 1998

1h 30m

★ 5.0

Evil Pirates. Shipwrecked Family. Vacation's Over

Overview

When Angelino Jack Robinson gets a new job in Australia, he decides to take his sissy wife Ann, brave sons Shane and Todd and wining daughter Elisabeth 'Lizzy' by sailing yacht from Hong Kong to Syndney. The gun he gets thrown in by Sheldon Blake proves disabled, and for a sinister reason: near Borneo, Blake's men turn up to capture them. The family escapes but loses the yacht on a reef. They build a cool camp on an island. But the pirates keep coming back, and the boys discover why: he hid a treasure in the yacht. Shane is also discovered and captured in more then one way by French plane wreck survivor Françoise, who later teams up with the family.

Genres

Adventure

Action

TV Movie

The New Swiss Family Robinson Trailers

Cast

Anna Robinson

Jane Seymour

Sheldon Blake

David Carradine

Jack Robinson

James Keach

Shane Robinson

John Asher

Todd Robinson

Blake Bashoff

Elizabeth Robinson

Jamie Renée Smith

Cynthia

Simone Griffeth

Francoise

Yumi Iwama

Girlfriend Pirate

Diane Kirman

Halo Pirate

Billy Bates

Ninja Pirate

Rick Kahana

Drunken Pirate

Joe Isaac

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