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Children Of Captain Grant, The

It is the year 1850. Captain Grant, a senior British officer, has disappeared. As their mother has died, his two children Robert and Mary have to work for a cruel farmer who mistreats them. Lord Jon Glenarvan catches a shark and finds a bottle in its belly with a message saying that Captain Grant was taken prisoner of war by the Russians. Lord Jon and the Captain's children set out to find him. After many adventures they experience during their journey, they finally find the Captain and arrive just in time to save him from the hangman's noose.

Donovan Scott was born in California on 29 September 1947 and studied for two-and-a-half years at the American Conservatory Theater. He toured as an actor and, later, artistic director of a troupe before settling in Los Angeles in 1977. He has since acted for film and television appearing in such films as 1941 (Steven Spielberg,1979), Police Academy, Hugh Wilson, 1984), Back To The Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985), Jingle All The Way (Bryan Levant, 1996). He came to directing on the 13-part series The Gold Rush for Artur Brauner's CCC Television after the original director James Hill fell ill. He was then hired by Brauner to direct The Children Of Captain Grant (1996) in which he also appeared as an actor.
 

Category Feature Film Cinema
Director Donovan Scott
Screenplay Paul Nicholas, Donovan Scott
Director of Photography Vladimir Donskov
Editor Margit Ruile
Music by Yuri Fetisov, Terry Young
Producer Artur Brauner
Production Company CCC Filmkunst/Berlin, in co-production with Genre Film, Los Angeles
Principal Cast Cassie Branham, Chris Browning, Adam Gregor
Length 115 min, 3,145 m
Format 35 mm, color
Original Version English
Subtitled Versions German
Sound Technology Mono

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