Michael Anderson Jr Archives

In Search of the Castaways (1962)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 2, 2006Jules Verne Adventure

Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea created a fad for Jules Verne adaptations throughout the 1950s/60s. Disney returned to Verne in this colourfully absurd adventure with children on a globe-spanning hunt for their missing father

Director: Robert Stevenson

Actors: Hayley Mills, Wilfrid Hyde White, Maurice Chevalier, Michael Anderson Jr, …

Category: Fantasy

2 April 200616 April 2026 by Roog

The House That Would Not Die (1970)

Rating: ★★

Jan 19, 2008Haunted House

A routine haunted house film that was made as a tv movie,. One of the several early genre works made by celebrated tv producer Aaron Spelling.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Kitty Winn, Richard Egan, Michael Anderson Jr

Category: Horror

19 January 20083 April 2026 by Roog

The Martian Chronicles (1980)

Rating: ★★

Aug 12, 2012Human Colonisation of Mars/Ray Bradbury Adaptation

Ray Bradbury's book about the human colonisation of Mars is an SF classic for its wistful, nostalgic poetry. This tv mini-series adaptation is killed by a lumbering director who over-explains Bradbury's imagery in the most literal ways

Director: Michael Anderson

Actors: Rock Hudson, Darren McGavin, Fritz Weaver, Bernie Casey, …

Category: Science Fiction

12 August 201219 December 2025 by Roog