Nice family adventure drama about a family that left today behind to discover adventure, fear, love and survival. A father (Robert F Logan) and a reporter (Mikki Jamison) and 3 children (Heather Rattray , Damitri Patterson, Shannon Saylor) begin sailing around the world. They are shipwrecked near an uninhabited isle. This island is full of wild animals and it is very perilous for them in the start. They live through a lot of marvellous adventure together and they become a big family. ...that one great experience is waiting...Suddenly the big adventure becomes a fight for survival...It began as a dream... and became an adventure of a lifetime.
The movie depicts a lovely family , formed by a father: Robert F Logan , and children who leave civilization for a dangerous journey throughout oceans . But they soon are shipwrecked and encounter troubles in a island and the wilderness. As they must escape some violently hungry animals and learn to survive , depicting the relationship between humans and wildlife . This is an enjoyable film filled with adventures , familiar feeling , beautiful songs as well as soundtrack by Fred Steiner, wildlife and breathtaking landscapes with majestic scenarios wonderfully photographed by cameraman Tom McHugh. The movie is plenty of animals such as musk ox, grizzly bear, moose or elk , deers , reindeers, raccoon , wolves , some of them are uncultivated and other tamed as a seal or a dog . Stars the handsome, good-looking Robert F. Logan who sadly passed away in 2024. Logan's career went into a lull after a full season playing frontiersman Jericho Jones on Daniel Boone (1964), but resurfaced in the early 1970s as the adventurous hippy star of the popular "back to nature" family drama The Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1975), which was written and directed by Stewart Raffill. Bob also starred in two other adventure films with a similar family Rocky Mountain theme, Across the Great Divide (1976) and this The Sea Gypsies (1978), and showed up in two other "Wilderness" sequels as well -- The Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1978) and Adventures of the Wilderness Family 3 (1979). All four films involved writer/director Stewart Raffill.
The motion picture was professionally directed by Stewart Raffill . Stewart supports the conservation of wildlife and has filmed grizzly bears, lions, tigers, orangutans, wolves, jaguars, and snakes in many of his action films. He's an expert on adventure genre, such as: ¨Across the Great Divide¨ , ¨Sea Gypsies¨ and science fiction as ¨Ice pirates¨ , ¨Mc and Me¨ and ¨The Philadelphia Experiment¨at his best.
The Sea Gypsies(1978) belongs to a wonderful series , these are as follows : ¨The Adventures of the Wilderness Family¨ (1975) by Stewart Raffill, ¨Further adventures Robinson family (1977)¨ by Frank Zuñiga from the producers of the first part and turns out to be a predictable retread ; ¨Mountain of Robinson family (1979)¨ in which the family is determined to return to wilderness and moves to the Rockies . In similar style and also offering a pleasant scenery are : ¨Across the great divide (1976)¨ in which two orphans must cross the dangerous snow-covered Rocky mountain in order to claim their inheritance , being based on facts happened in 1876 . All films are mostly starred by Robert F. Logan , Susan Damante Shaw and usual appearance as secondary actor the likable George Buck Flowers and Heather Rattray and being produced by Joseph Raffill (father of Stewart Raffill who habitually results to be the filmmaker of the series) and also financed by producer Arthur Dobbs . This family-oriented tale about modern-day adventurers who head for life in nature will appeal to wilderness buffs .
