Today I'm binge watching nostalgic Disney live action films from the 50's 60's and 70's.

Pollyanna, my favorite.

Excuse me?

How dare you put me last, OP!

OP, how would you feel about being turned into a nice white rabbit?

OP have you ever considered growing up at all?

You're watching ALL those movies in one day?

Rewatched Candleshoe a few years ago. It held up surprisingly well.

The only live-action Disney film that period which rises to classic status is "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" - all the others are childish peplum. ("Mary Poppins" also counts, but has a good 15 mins of animation in the middle, so - depends on how strict we're being here.)

[quote] Return to from Witch Mountain

Oh, dear.

R8, I liked that movie better when it was called [italic]Song of the South[/italic]. Only a racist would listen to the white girl cover version while ignoring the Black male original.

I loved the Dexter Riley movies when I was a kid. (Was that his name?) I wish they had Now You See Him, Now You Don't; that was my favorite.

R11: Literally the only good part of [italic]Superdad[/italic] is Kurt Russell playing volleyball without a shirt.

A Jealous Bitches? thread, and you don't even share with us what sort of snacks you'll be having OP? What is this?

It’s Disney, so there will always be likely to be something about food worked into the plot one way or another. This is understandable when you consider all the contracts the parks have with the food industry.

No [italic]The Monkey's Uncle[/italic]? For shame!

Are these all on Disney+, OP?

I admit to having a fondness for these movies because when I was growing up my dad always took us to every Disney movie that came out. It was during their objectively worst period -'70s-early '80s - but it's not about film criticism, it's about the warm glow of nostalgia.

One of our Dinosaurs is Missing is another good one.

Their objectively worst film period is now if they collaborated with a fucking concentration camp on the new [italic]Mulan[/italic] and if they ruined [italic]Artemis Fowl[/italic].

I'll watch anything with Joe Flynn in it.

What about Wally Cox? Wasn’t he in a bunch of these?

[Quote] Are these all on Disney+, OP?

Don't know but I'm sure many are. I have the dvd/blu ray discs. Fun!

You don’t have to join the Disney movie club but to get the Blu-rays. You can find them on eBay. It’s worth paying extra to get them secondhand so technically your money is not going to Disney, and once it trades hands, it ceases to be your money.

R8 20,000 Leaks Under the Sea is one of my favorites, but I also like Treasure Island because it has classic scenery-chewer Robert Newton in it as Long John Silver.

[italic] The Three Lives of Thomasina [/italic] was cute.

No [italic]Moonspinners[/italic]? I'm not joining you then.

I love The North Avenue Irregulars

It’s campy, a little less childlike in tone, and fun. It holds up pretty good.

The cast includes Cloris Leachman, Barbara Harris, the grandpa from the Gilmore Girls, Ma’am from Webster, Ruth Buzzi and Karen Valentine.

[quote]20,000 Leaks Under the Sea

Oh, dear.

[quote]all the others are childish peplum.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

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R26: I know a couple of Disney employees who met on the set of that film and married. The wife still works there, but the husband works for another studio.

OP, do yourself a favor and watch "Annette" a serial that was part of "The Mickey Mouse Club". All 19 episodes are on Youtube. They have Annette Funicello, Tim Considine, and DL fave Mary Wickes. Here is episode 1.

"Darby O'Gill and the Little People" and also "Babes in Toyland"!!!

Swiss Family Robinson. James MacArthur was hot as fuck.

Child of Glass

The Littlest Outlaw

The Absent Minded Professor.

I still love The Mystery In Dracula's Castle.

Another vote each for Swiss Family Robinson, Pollyanna, The Parent Trap, and The Monkey's Uncle.

Also The Third Man On The Mountain and The Castaways.

They had some great live action movies for kids. Black Arrow was another favorite of mine back then.

These movies explain why the baby boomers turned out the way they did.

They used to show The Love Bug at my elementary school during February vacation week.

The World's Greatest Athlete. Jan-Michael Vincent in a loin cloth...nuff said.

No GUS ? for shame !

Song of Norway.

I love Schlong of Norway.

Disney had nothing to do with "Song of Norway."

Follow Me, Boys!

Old Yeller!

What, no Bedknobs and Broomsticks?

And you have the audacity to post on DL.

What about MOON PILOT?!?!

Gay hottie Tom Tryon was in Moon Pilot

I always had a soft spot for Rascal, The Three Lives of Thomasina, Greyfriars Bobby, and Summer Magic

The One and Only Genuine, Original, Family Band was the first movie Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn worked on together...15 years before Swing Shift.

It would be fun to watch [italic]The Happiest Millionaire[/italic] and that movie about the Detroit riots back to back.

The original That Darn Cat and The Love Bug are my favorites!

For a Sherman Brothers musical that is not and was never intended to be over 2 hours long, there's [italic]Summer Magic[/italic].

The 3 Lives of Thomasina was very jarring to me as a child.

R57: I thought it was the best of the films those two children made for the studio. The DVD is widescreen but there is no HD version anywhere.

I also like "Johnny Tremaine".

This one I had never even heard of until I came across it on YouTube.

R59 Loved that, hot twinks.

Choreography in ....ORIGINAL FAMILY BAND by Nancy Sinatra's husband!!!

I can't get into THAT DARN CAT because we don't see Dorothy Provine or Hayley Mills or Dean Jones for the first 10 minutes or so......just Ed Wynn and some other idiot doing stuff that doesn't matter to anyone....

“Bedknobs” proved that Angela could carry a film which was the bullsh*t reason they gave for not giving her “Mame” and letting Lucy ruin it.

I love The North Avenue Irregulars but k can’t find it anywhere!

The North Ave Irregulars is on Amazon Prime for purchase. I bought it this week.

Napoleon and Samantha with Jodie Foster as a kindergarden little girl, Johny Whitaker, Michael Douglas as a happy-go-lucky unemployed drop-out protecting the kids and ... child abuser (???!!!) as the antagonist in a Disney film.

Wasn't it implied in Child of Glass too that the creepy uncle had done something to young Inez ? He killed her ? Commited incest ? Nothing explicit, obviously, but it was weird.

Swamp Fox.

GUS, with Don Knotts and Gary Grimes !

I loved In Search of the Castaways.

Jesus Christ, OP, you're a glutton for punishment.

Another vote for the ANNETTE serial - although episode eight is a complete waste of time with Mary Wickes just recounting the story so far.

And of course THE HARDY BOYS - with Tim & Tom.

Was Sandy Duncan a serious contender for an oscar nomination for either Million Dollar Duck or Star Spangled Girl?

She received Golden Globe nominations for both.

Has anyone mentioned that "The Gnome Mobile" is perhaps the finest production in the history of the cinematic arts?

Please add

Son of Flubber

The Boatniks

[quote]And of course THE HARDY BOYS - with Tim & Tom.

Don't forget Spin & Marty!

I had a crush on the guy who played Johnny Tremain

I like Those Calloways, featuring cutie Brandon DeWilde. The scenery is really beautiful, too

The Apple Dumpling Gang. Disney certainly has a thing for precocious orphans.

The Watcher in the Woods

The Watcher in the Woods is NOTHING compared to my star turn in the Witch Mountain films.

Suck it, Kyle!

Escape to Witch Mountain was my favorite movie as a child.

R80 same, loved it. watched it again recently. Has aged poorly, but Ike was still cute.

In the 60s and early 70s The Alhambra Theatre showed the latest Disney stuff. A quarter (the Saturday matinee rate) got you all day at the movies. They gave out Love Bug peace sign medallions at the premiere. I wore mine for weeks and thought I was the coolest kid in kindergarten.

Ike was adorable. I loved him shirtless and tied down in the sequel.

R23 , was there ever a bigger scenery chewer in the history of cinema than Robert Newton?

R62, Blasphemy! The beginning of That Darn Cat features beloved DL icon Grayson Hall, aka Dr. Julia Hoffman of Dark Shadows.

R33, lots of shirtless scenes with MacArthur. It's a shame he didn't do as many when he was older, I like the mature MacArthur much better. (Same with Martin Milner).

Inspired by OP, I watched Escape to Witch Mountain and the sequel with Bette Davis. For the mid-70s, the special effects were impressive.

I'm disappointed the vast Disney library isn't available on Disney+...

I am impressed this has not turned into a Bedknobs and Broomsticks rage page.

Good work, men.

what, no Apple Dumpling Gang?

What about Pete's Dragon? R.I.P., Helen Reddy!

Pollyanna, the Parent Trap, the Gnomemobile, the Love Bug for me.

Dean Jones was in my hometown in the 60s and I saw him shopping in the grocery store. He was a hottie. Everybody there was trying to keep their cool, but I knew if one person shouted "Dean Jones" there was going to be a stampede.

[quote] “Bedknobs” proved that Angela could carry a film which was the bullsh*t reason they gave for not giving her “Mame” and letting Lucy ruin it.

WB already made up their minds by late 1971 when B&B came out.

At least [italic]Pete's Dragon[/italic] provided Onna White with a more dignified cinematic swan song and showed musicals weren't totally dead yet. Disney also cast John McGiver, who was in both LucyMAME and [italic]Manchurian Candidate[/italic], in [italic]The Apple Dumpling Gang[/italic].

r87 You really couldn't be bothered to read 10 posts back?

Walt Disney owned Annette's name......as a character. Unless she was working for WDP, they had to call her something else.....Dede or Annie were the most common choices.....