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Bookmark this pageThe Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1980)
Director: Charles Jarrott
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From Time Out Film Guide
There must be a computer in the Disney studios programmed to produce live-action shooting scripts at the drop of various switches (probably labelled 'Children', 'Animals', 'Moral Homilies' and 'Some Current Cinema Fashions'). It's certainly been in use here. A plane full of two orphans, sundry animals, an evangelist (wonderful Bujold) and a hard-nosed pilot (boring Gould) crash-lands in the Pacific, with ensuing struggle back to civilisation. There's the tousle-haired faucet Schroder crying over his small zoo; an encounter with a shark; and umpteen sermons on tolerance and togetherness, with all the cast - including two Jap soldiers still fighting World War II - learning to live together in a wonderful warm glow.Author: GB
Cast & crew
Director: Charles Jarrott
Producer: Ron Miller
Cast: Elliott Gould, Genevieve Bujold, Ricky Schroder, Tammy Lauren, Vincent Gardenia, John Fujioka, Yuki Shimoda full cast
Genre(s): Children's
Duration: 98 mins
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