It was Walt Disney's penultimate live-action film in which he was credited as producer while alive. Disney persuaded silent film actress Pola Negri, who had been retired for two decades, to return to the screen for this, her final film. For the 2006 biographical documentary film Pola Negri: Life Is a Dream in Cinema, both Mills and Wallach were extensively interviewed about their work with Negri in The Moon-Spinners. Critical reception The New York Times critic Bosley Crowther offered a mixed review, praising "the ripening attractiveness of the young British actress Hayley Mills and some beautiful scenery in color on the island of Crete", but calling the film "essentially an entertainment for the younger set". With regard to adult viewers, he noted that "it is a picture in which standard melodrama abounds – the kind that the older observer may find just too bubbling with clichés". Rotten Tomatoes, describing the film as a "distilled Hitchcockian suspense yarn, diluted for the consumption of children", gives it an approval rating of 63%. See also List of American films of 1964 References External links 1964 films 1960s mystery films American mystery films Walt Disney Pictures films Films directed by James Neilson Films produced by Walt Disney Films based on British novels Films set in Crete Films shot in Crete Films about vacationing American neo-noir films Films shot at Pinewood Studios Films produced by Bill Anderson (producer) Films scored by Ron Grainer 1960s English-language films 1960s American films