What is the American adventure film of a shipwrecked family building an island home, Swiss Family Robinson or Tonka?
Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film) Swiss Family Robinson is a 1960 American Adventure film starring John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Tommy Kirk and Kevin Corcoran in a tale of a shipwrecked family building an island home, loosely based on the 1812 novel "Der Schweizerische Robinson" (literally, "The Swiss Robinson") by Johann David Wyss. The film was directed by Ken Annakin and shot in Tobago and Pinewood Studios outside London. It was the second feature film version of the story (the first film version was released by RKO in 1940) and was a commercial success.
S.O.S. Eisberg S.O.S. Eisberg ("S.O.S. Iceberg") is a 1933 German-US drama film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland, Rod La Roque, and Ernst Udet. Written by Tom Reed based on a story by Arnold Fanck and Friedrich Wolf (uncredited in the credits after the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 because he was Jewish and a member of the Communist Party of Germany), the film is about an Arctic expedition that goes in search of a party that was lost the previous year. "S.O.S. Eisberg" was filmed on location in Umanak, on the west coast of Greenland, in Iceland, and in the Bernina Alps, on the border between Italy and Switzerland. It was filmed simultaneously in German and English, and released by Universal Studios in both Nazi Germany and the United States. The film premiered on 30 August 1933 in Berlin.