Mary Grant has received a message in a bottle from her missing father, a sea captain. She enlists Jacques Paganel, a French geographer, Lord Glenarvan, owner of the Steam Navigation Company, and other searchers to rescue him as they travel the 37th parallel in South America and Australia.

Based on Jules Verne's story: Les enfants du capitaine Grant. Videodisc release of the 1962 production. "The original Disney film classic"--Container.