In Search of the Castaways Page #3

leaping about like a...

Like a confounded

mountain sheep, thank you!

Oh, please, your lordship.

Please!

No, no, mademoiselle, uh...

He's right.

We'll return to the ship

with the Indians

and get some crewmen

who are younger.

Age has got nothing

to do with it.

I'll take over

and lead the expedition.

You can remain

in your deck chair.

You lead the way?

Ridiculous.

Have the whole lot of you

lost in no time.

On the other hand,

with me in command it would

take a great deal more than...

[chuckles]

...drangopeeri to turn us back.

That's right, isn't it?

[All] Right, your lordship.

[Guitar playing]

Monsieur Paganel, do you think

we might have one tonight?

When you are

in the poultry yard,

it is a good time to wish

you catch the egg. See?

Look at this. See?

Any slight tremor of the earth,

and it starts to swing.

But if you're asleep,

how could you tell?

Oh, maybe all night I sleep

with one eye open.

Perhaps his lordship

will sleep better

if we do not tell him

before tomorrow

what drangopeeri means. Eh?

Your pleasure, mademoiselle?

(music) Castaway, castaway

(music) Trust in your star

(music) You know I will find you

(music) Wherever you are

(music) Though all your dreams

(music) May be tossed by the tide

(music) Cling to your hopes

(music) Never cast them aside

(music) Castaway, castaway

(music) Though you may be

(music) Lost in the wilderness

(music) Over the sea

(music) I will discover

(music) Your castaway shore

(music) Then you'll be a castaway

(music) No more

(music) You'll be a castaway

(music) No more (music)

It's my father's favorite.

Ever since I was a little girl,

I've always thought it sad.

Not the way you sang it.

Oh, it's just how I feel

tonight, I suppose.

Oh, it's all so exciting.

We're up here,

Father's down there,

the stars pointing the way.

It's almost like

being in heaven.

- I know.

- Ah, there you are, my boy.

Better get some sleep.

Got an early start.

- We're too excited to sleep.

- Hmm. So I see.

Come along with me

just the same.

Wait.

I want to make a wish

on that star.

What could you wish for

that you haven't got?

That my father would go

somewhere and get lost.

Just for a little while,

you understand?

- What are you doing?

- This is to wake me up.

- Wake you up?

- Yes, in case...

- In case what?

- Oh, nothing.

And what is this,

may I ask?

My watch, milord.

Perhaps I want to look

at it during the night. [chuckles]

How very peculiar.

Oh, Robert, really.

Do put those things away.

But if there's an earthquake,

I want to see it.

Earthquake? Who said anything

about an earthquake?

Oh.

I'm so stupid, milord.

I didn't realize it until later.

The Indian. When he did, uh...

...that, you see?

He did not mean it was cold, no.

He meant drangopeeri.

Earthquake. This is the land

of many earthquakes.

Oh, gracious me.

In the whole world, no place

has such big, such beautiful,

such magnificent earthquakes

as right here.

But it is one chance in a million

we should be so fortunate.

[Chuckles] Yes, yes, of course.

Quite right.

This place looks as if it's been here

hundreds of years.

Doesn't it? I mean, uh,

it's safe to assume that

it'll last one more night.

Eh?

Oui, monsieur?

Oui, milord.

And I'll wake you up

if one comes, your lordship.

[Rumbling]

- It worked!

- Oh, Robert, do be quiet.

- An earthquake of the first magnitude.

- [Crashing]

I say, do you have

to shake the whole place?

By Jove, it's an earthquake!

[Glenarvan] Outside, everybody!

Oh! Oh, magnificent.

This is an experience that makes

our entire expedition worthwhile!

[Crashing]

[Screams]

By Jove,

that was a narrow squeak.

Whoa!

[Mary] Oh!

I say, this is getting

rather dangerous.

Then we'll attempt

to change course.

Everybody to port.

It worked.

That's better. Much obliged.

- [Glenarvan] Look out.

- This way, everybody. Quick!

To port, quick!

- Port, quickly!

- No, starboard.

- Port, I say.

- Starboard!

[Glenarvan]

Where are we going now?

Perfect timing.

Oh!

Abandon ship!

No, wait.

There's a hole in the ice.

- We don't know where it goes.

- We'll soon find out.

Alpine-type glacier.

Risk minimum.

We'll never get out of here.

Alive.

The ice melts and gets out.

Why can't we?

[Yodeling]

[Yodeling echoes]

[Yodeling]

Isn't it beautiful?

Oh, they'll never believe us

when we get home.

If we get home.

[Yodeling]

Look out, everybody! Duck!

Where are we going?

[Glenarvan] Starboard,

I tell you!

This is most peculiar.

Look out!

- That was close.

- Oh!

[Robert] Mary!

Come on!

- Where's Robert?

- [Glenarvan] Here's his hat.

[Mary] Robert!

Robert, can you hear me?

[Robert echoing] Not down there!

I'm up here!

Oh! A giant condor.

A Sarcorhamphus gryphus.

Robert! Hold on!

I don't have to.

She won't let go.

This is true. She will not let go

until she reaches her nest.

Reaches her nest?

Yes. High in the mountains.

No doubt she has little ones

that must...

[gasps]

Oh! Hang on, Robert!

- We're coming!

- [Gunshot]

[Crashing]

Ah!

- Robert!

- I got dizzy coming down.

But it was a jolly good view

from up there.

Oh, thank goodness

you're all right.

- I wonder who fired the shot.

- Perhaps he did.

A Patagonian.

Magnificent.

It's like turning back

the history book hundreds of years.

Ha! Hope he's not dangerous.

Permit me. I've learned

a few primitive words.

[Speaks foreign language]

[Speaks foreign language]

[Speaks foreign language]

Anyway, even if you

don't understand,

I want to thank you

for saving my brother's life.

Happy to do.

Heavens, he speaks English.

First-class shooting, sir.

First time, right through the heart.

No, shoot through heart,

bird go limp.

Drop small boy.

But shoot back of head,

bird go stiff.

Wings go up.

He circle down,

land boy safe.

You mean you purposely

induced motor paralysis

- through damage on the medulla.

- Not understand.

Can you tell us

where our father is?

- He was captured.

- On the 37th parallel.

They were kidnapped.

Washed up on the shore. Captured!

Three white men.

Indians hold them

for ransom money.

You very slow to come.

Are they all right?

Last time I hear, they're well.

But very tired

of being prisoners.

What do you mean, last time you hear?

Don't you come from where they're held?

No! I'm an Araucanian chief.

Thalcave. My people do not rob.

Do not steal.

Do not hold prisoners

for ransom.

- Well, where are they?

- Far away.

At the foot of the mountain.

Great plain,

as far as you can see.

- Many days to cross.

- The Pampas.

Well, couldn't you

take us there?

First we stop at my village

for horses and supplies.

Then Thalcave will try

help you find them.

Much rain there.

You sleep in tree.

May come flood.

Flood? By George,

that's a good one.

Giant ombu tree.

Phytolacca dioica.

Magnificent specimen.

[Robert] Please,

may we sleep in it?

You can sleep where you like,

but I don't intend

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