Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (Disney) (1966)

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Dick Van Dyke Draws Another Beauty in New Disney Comedy Motion picture and TV comedy star, Dick Van Dyke, considers himself a very lucky guy, particularly in the leading lady department. In the few short years he has enjoyed screen stardom, Dick has cinematically wooed and won some of Hollywood’s most glamorous gals, including Julie Andrews, Shirley MacLaine, Elke Sommers, Angie Dickinson, Janet Leigh and Mary Tyler Moore. Now it’s the exotic and curvaceous Nancy Kwan who steals his heart in Walt Disney’s hilarious new adventure-comedy, “Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.” Van Dyke plays the title role, a Twentieth-century castaway, in this updated version of the popular Crusoe legend and Nancy as his girl Wednesday, is a decided improvement over Friday, the manservant of the original Defoe classic. Filmed in brilliant Technicolor and also starring Akim Tamiroff, “Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.” was directed by Byron Paul from a screenplay by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi. Walsh was also co-producer with Ron Miller on the Buena Vista release. ©1966 WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS © Beret BPISEL Delve Mat CRU #2B THE TIE THAT BINDS is really a wedding knot, but Dick Van Dyke objects to being roped by Nancy Kwan in Walt Disney’s new comedy-adventure, ‘‘Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.” Akim Tamiroff also stars in the Technicolor production. WALT DISNEY’S “LT. ROBIN CRUSOE, U.S.N.’ PROVES SEASON’S WILDEST COMEDY CAPER Dick Van Dyke, Mary Poppins’ favorite fella and one of Hollywood’s most brilliant young talents, is back on the big theatre screens in Walt Disney’s new laughloaded, adventure-packed comedy, “Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.,” with Nancy Kwan and Akim Tamiroff sharing the stellar spotlight. As a modern-day counterpart of literature’s most famous castaway, Dick soon realizes that the other Crusoe never had it so good. Instead of a man Friday, he discovers an exotic girl, whom he dubs Wednesday, and a whole bevy of Polynesian beauties who turn his desert island into a tropical paradise. Combining comedy, romance, adventure and music into rollicking escapist entertainment, this latest Disney attraction is designed to please everyone who ever had a yen to get away from it all. To add to the fun, there’s a poker-playing space-chimp named Floyd, who, having missed his orbital mark, ends up on the island as Crusoe’s house guest. There’s plenty of excitement, too, when our handsome hero gets involved in a lulu of a hu-hu with the local head-shrinking head-hunters who try to recoup their defecting female citizenry, on the warpath for women’s rights. As the navy pilot, whose adventures carry him from the sharkinfested waters of the South Pacific to a girl-infested paradise, Van Dyke has his most demanding role, Not only is he on screen for all of the movie’s running time, but he alone must sustain audience-interest through a third of the film’s unreeling. The result is an acting tour-de-force for the popular actor-comedian, whose outstanding performances in screen hits like ‘Bye Bye Birdie,” “The Art of Love” and “Mary Poppins” recently prompted 1,500 of the country’s leading exhibitors to vote him their coveted “Star-of-theYear” Award and have also established him as an international film favorite. As the star of his awardwinning television series, “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” one of the ten top-rated shows for the past five years, he enjoys equal popularity with TV viewers around the world. Diminutive and de-luscious Nancy Kwan, who in the past has spiced many a film with her exotic appeal, displays a unique flair for comedy in the role of Wednesday, the spirited but kooky daughter of a head-hunting island chief. Having skyrocketed to screen stardom in the title role of her first film, ‘The World of Suzie Wong,” Nancy has since displayed a remarkable versatility in roles ranging from the light-hearted musical, “Flower Drum Song,” to heavy dramas like “The Main Attraction” and “Fate is the Hunter.” The role of Tanamashu, the babbling, blustering chief, is played to perfection by that distinguished actor, Akim Tamiroff, in his first Disney assignment. For many years a master of screen villainy in memorable films like “The General Died at Dawn,” ‘The Lives of a Bengal Lancer” and “For Whom the Bells Toll,” Tamiroff has been seen lately in a wide variety of comedy roles. Recently in “Topkapi,” he has also just completed two European-made films, “The Liquidator” and “After the Fox.” Arthur Malet, who scored recently as the elderly banker in “Mary Poppins,” contributes another of his unique comedy characterizations as the chief’s excitable umbrella man, Making their screen bows in the Technicolor comedy are a group of exotic charmers, selected from Mat CRU #2A ©1966 WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS HIGH COMEDY — Dick Van Dyke is carried aloft by a bevy of Polynesian beauties in Walt Disney’s new comedy-adventure, ‘Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N."’ Filmed in brilliant Technicolor, the picture also stars Nancy Kwan and Akim Tamiroff. Byron Paul directed from a screenplay by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi. Walsh was also co-producer with Ron Miller. hundreds of young acting aspirants auditioned throughout Southern California and Hawaii. Among those picked for featured roles are Nancy Hseuh, Victoria Young, Yvonne Ribuca, Bebe Louie and Lucia Valero, who portray five of Nancy Kwan’s rebellious sisters and cousins. An important member of the cast not to be overlooked is a 100pound, three-foot-four bundle of talent, known simply as Dinky, the newest animal actor to make his bid for stardom under the Walt Disney banner. Although he happens to be a chimpanzee, it’s often hard to believe this when he starts to emote in front of the cameras. His performance as Floyd, the astro-chimp who shares Crusoe’s misadventures on a Pacific isle, has all the professionalism of an Actor’s Studio alumnus. THE DIRECTOR Making his debut as a motion picture director is the dynamic young television veteran, Byron Paul. A pioneer in the technical development of the TV medium, Paul eventually ended up on the creative side and handled the directorial reins on several thousand “live” shows that emanated from New York. Switching to filmed television, when production activity moved to Hollywood, he directed a great number of shows for successful series, including ‘‘Gunsmoke,’’ “Have Gun—Will Travel,” ‘Ben Casey,” “Burke’s Law” and “Daniel Boone.” Prior to his _ initial feature film assignment, Paul directed eight hour-long shows for Disney’s ‘Wonderful World of Color” program, including two three-parters, “The Tenderfoot” and “Gallegher.” THE PRODUCTION Based on an original story, the screenplay was adapted and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, who in the past have collaborated on some of Walt’s happiest hits, including “The Absent Minded Professor,” “Son of Flubber” and ‘‘Mary Poppins.’’ Walsh also doubled as co-producér with Ron Miller on the new Disney feature. Academy Award-winning designer Bill Thomas created the colorful sarongs worn by Nancy Kwan and the curvaceous island girls, as well as the elaborate and ornate costumes of Akim Tamiroff and his warriors. For Dick Van Dyke, Thomas started with a routine Navy flyer’s uniform from which he developed three or four timeworn variations. The final creation includes only the original trousers, ripped to Bermuda length and worn with a goatskin vest, a handwoven palm-frond hat and matching palm-frond umbrella. The perfect outfit for any style-conscious castaway. The special effects team of Peter Ellenshaw, Eustace Lycett and Robert A. Mattey and film editor, Cotton Warburton, who received Academy Awards for their contributions to Walt’s widely-acclaimed and highly successful musical, “Mary Poppins,” now lend their creative talents to “Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.” These effects wizards have perfected many new and startling innovations for Disney’s adventurecomedy, including an elaborate fireworks display, climaxed by a mighty explosion that demolishes a gigantic stone idol. To provide an authentic island setting for “Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.,” Walt Disney transported his cast and crew to the Hawaiian Islands for extended location filming. Kauai, known as the “Garden Island” because of its lush tropican vegetation and expansive golden beaches, provided the natural backgrounds for much of the action recorded by the Technicolor cameras. Lawai-Kai, once the estate of Queen Liliu Kalani, the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands, was used for additional beach scenes and its 125-acre botanical gardens doubled for the dense jungle through which Crusoe flees from a group of spear-carrying native girls. Returning to the Burbank studios, the Disney company resumed filming in matching exteriors and interior sets, created by art directors Carroll Clark and Carl Anderson and set decorators Emile Kuri and Frank R. McKelvy. Stage Two, the studio’s largest sound stage, housed one of the film’s most impressive and costly sets, the Kaboona, an immense stone idol surrounded by a dense jungle of tropical plants, palms and banyan trees with spreading roots that entwine the stone remnants of an ancient temple. This is the setting for the film’s hilarious climax, when Crusoe rigs the idol to frighten the chief and his mighty warriors into surrender. THE MUSIC One of Hollywood’s brightest young musical talents, Bob Brunner, composed and conducted an exciting new musical score for the picture. Largely Polynesian in mood and tempo, the lilting island themes are broken by an occasional oriental strain. Brunner, who was responsible for the background scoring on several of Walt’s “Wonderful World of Color” television shows and the recent comedy-hit, “That Darn Cat,” used a 49-piece orchestra, supplemented with a number of drums and oriental instruments on occasion, to record the impressive musical accompaniment.