Hayley Mills made this film about about shipwrecked castaways two years after her father, John Mills, starred in Swiss Family Robinson also made by Walt Disney about shipwrecked castaways.
Inia Te Wiata's final feature film.
Charles Laughton originally announced for one of the top roles.
Despite being third on the cast and main titles, George Sanders does not turn up until over a hour in the film.
Second Walt Disney's studio film adaptation of a Jules Verne novel. The first was 20000 Leagues Under the Sea. The characters of Lord Ayerton and Captain Nemo later appeared together in Verne's novel The Mysterious Island. Ironically, Disney never adapted this novel, though other studios have.