Swiss Family Robinson (film).

Swiss Family Robinson is a family film that tells the story of a family that, while en route to a new life in New Guinea to evade Napoleon’s influence on Switzerland, is shipwrecked on an unsettled island and their adventures battling pirates and building a new home. The film was based on the 1812 novel Der Schweizerische Robinson ("The Swiss Robinson"), written by Swiss pastor Johann David Wyss, who crafted the story as a lesson in self-sufficiency for his four sons. The 1960 Walt Disney film is only loosely based on the story, tweaking the original by adding a female love interest for the boys, as well as the pirates who attack the island.