Swiss Family Robinson

Help! Help!

Somebody, help!

Help! Help!

- Help! Help! - Help! Get us out of here!

- We're trapped! - Francis?

Help! Help!

- Help! Help! - Help!

- Help! Help! - Somebody get us out!

What happened?

She's hit something.

Have mercy!

I can't get it open. It's jammed.

You first, Fritz.

Ernst, help your mother.

Captain Wilhelm?

Anybody here?

Anyone there, Fritz?

If anybody was here,

they'd have heard us long before this.

It's just as I was telling you.

If they've abandoned the ship, they've got no right to claim it.

It's ours by maritime law.

I can't believe that they'd go off and leave us here.

Something must've happened.

Something's happened, all right.

They thought the ship was gonna sink in the storm.

It was every man for himself.

It was carrying too much sail.

I heard the captain and mate arguing down below.

If I'd been captain, I'd have fought the pirates,

instead of running into the storm.

All right, Mother.

What a mess.

At least we're not too far from land.

Then there's hope.

Maybe when we get to shore we can get some help,

make her sail again.

She'll never sail again.

Maybe we could build a raft. We've got enough wood.

Fritz is right.

The sooner we get ashore, the better.

Hey! Look what I found.

Look!

Oh, those poor things.

They must have had a worse time of it than we did.

How's it look? Are we solid on the rocks?

I don't know. No, I'd say we're...

Well, we're here at least until the turning of the tide.

Help me, somebody, help! Help!

No!

Look what I found! The captain's dogs!

And are they glad to see me! Whoa!

- He's all right. - Duke, Turk, get off me.

Better make a start. Come on.

Come on, give me a hand.

Now suppose it's a deserted island.

Now I can work out right where we are soon as I learn how to use this.

All right, take it along.

It still works.

There's no time for that now.

Why don't we put up a distress flag?

Don't you think we look distressed enough?

Ernst, anyone who sees a ship stuck on the rocks,

might possibly guess it's in trouble.

Now you look after them, Turk. You too, Duke.

But I don't see how we can take all these animals.

We're not taking them.

But we can't leave them here, Father, they'll die.

When your mother and brothers are safe on land,

then you can talk to me about the animals, not before.

Francis, get them out of there.

- We don't want this one or that. - Wait a minute!

Or that.

Wait a minute, they wanna go too.

We don't want any of them.

All right, Fritz.

Put it over your head. That's it.

All right, I'm fine.

Just hold tight. Grip the rope here.

Ernst.

- All right. - Come on, Mother.

Now, Mother, don't worry. We'll take care of you.

- Right, Mother, now don't worry. - Right, Fritz.

- Come on. - Now.

- Sorry, Mother. - You all right?

Hey, Fritz! The dogs!

He forgot the dogs!

They're not coming with us.

- Cast off, Fritz. - They're my dogs! I found 'em.

Francis, sit down.

They weigh more than any of us. We'd sink in no time at all.

- All right, Fritz? - All right.

All right. Watch that wreckage!

Here comes the dogs, going to swim it.

Come on, Duke! Come on, Turk!

You can make it! Come on, boys! Keep swimming!

Straight between those rocks. That side, Ernst, that side!

Never mind that side! Come on. Help me push over here!

Come on, boys! You can make it! Keep swimming!

Look out, Ernst! Watch those rocks!

- Your side, Ernst! - Push off!

Come on, Turk! Come on, Duke!

Look out! Look out!

Do something! They'll drown!

We can't take any more chances.

Look!

Come on, boys! Come on!

Good boy, Turk! Well done.

Keep them in the middle.

That's right, in the center.

You see, they didn't sink us.

Let's get to shore.

I wouldn't dare pray for any more miracles, not in one day.

Fritz, the wave in the front there.

Hey, Turk, Duke! Wait for me!

I'm coming too! Hey! Wait for me!

Francis, come back! Stay in your tub.

I'm coming! Hey!

I'm coming! I'm coming, Duke!

Francis, come back here!

Tie it around the tree stump.

- Come on, let's go. - Francis!

Francis, come back here!

See ya later.

First thing we've got to do is to unload the raft.

Then...

put up some sort of shelter for the night.

Not the first thing.

Fritz. Hold it, Fritz.

We are not making any progress.

I know it, Father.

It's got to hang down even on both sides.

Aren't very good.

We're lucky to have them.

Pull your side down.

Right, I've got my side.

- Hold it down, Fritz. - Right.

Come on.

You're very lucky to have them, you know.

Fritz, I think tomorrow,

if the ship's still there,

you and I and maybe Ernst ought to go out

and try and bring in the animals if we can,

anything else we might need.

How long do you think we'll have to stay here?

Well, I don't know, Mother. I just...

I just think we ought to do everything we can.

What's going on?

Powder was wet.

Aren't you coming to bed?

You have to have some sleep.

Besides it's going to rain.

No, I'm all right.

No one can ever go back

and undo what's already done but...

Well, I...

I want you to know that...

Well, I'm sorry things didn't work out.

Not the way I wanted them to.

I know.

It would have been so much better if we'd just stayed in Bern.

I'm not so sure of it,

not with Napoleon Bonaparte trying to grab up more and more.

Fritz and Ernst might both be in a war,

maybe even you.

No, it would have been better to stay and face things

rather than just...

running away.

Is it running away to try to find a new life

in a new colony?

To try to give our sons a chance to live,

a chance to be free?

Is that running away?

I keep thinking about all the men

who work in those other offices along the Marktgasse.

They go on working at the same old jobs

and manage to find opportunities for their families

without running off to the other side of the world.

I thought we settled all this before we left home.

It was a good thing we set out to do.

We were right.

All that hasn't changed just because we were shipwrecked.

You're always right, aren't you?

We'll get there, I'm sure of it.

I'm sure of it!

Sooner or later, there's bound to be a ship.

I'll pray for it with every breath I take.

It's... It's a big land, New Guinea.

For hundreds of years, therefore been new colonies,

a great new world to build.

No limit to what a man can do.

Just because we're a couple of months late

getting there won't matter.

We're not too badly off, are we?

We've got each other. We've got the family.

- Food to eat. - And even a tent to keep the rain off...

If we had sense enough to use it.

Oh, the dogs.

- Here, Duke! - Try to keep covered up.

Now, don't worry. Try to go back to sleep.