Today I'm binge watching nostalgic Disney live action films from the 50's 60's and 70's.
Starting with,
Million Dollar Duck
Candleshoe
Treasure Island
Davey Crocket and the River Pirates
The Parent Trap
The Ugly Dachshund
The Strongest Man in the World
That Darn Cat
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
The Shaggy Dog
The Love Bug
The Cat form Outer Space
Escape to Witch Mountain
Return to from Witch Mountain
by Anonymous | reply 92 | October 5, 2020 3:29 PM
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How dare you put me last, OP!
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 2, 2020 5:22 PM
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OP, how would you feel about being turned into a nice white rabbit?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 2, 2020 5:36 PM
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OP have you ever considered growing up at all?
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 2, 2020 5:38 PM
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You're watching ALL those movies in one day?
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 2, 2020 5:39 PM
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Rewatched Candleshoe a few years ago. It held up surprisingly well.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 7 | October 2, 2020 5:43 PM
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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.)
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 2, 2020 5:46 PM
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[quote] Return to from Witch Mountain
Oh, dear.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 2, 2020 5:47 PM
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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.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 2, 2020 5:49 PM
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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.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 2, 2020 5:50 PM
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R11: Literally the only good part of [italic]Superdad[/italic] is Kurt Russell playing volleyball without a shirt.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 2, 2020 5:54 PM
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A Jealous Bitches? thread, and you don't even share with us what sort of snacks you'll be having OP? What is this?
by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 2, 2020 5:54 PM
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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.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 2, 2020 5:56 PM
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No [italic]The Monkey's Uncle[/italic]? For shame!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 15 | October 2, 2020 5:56 PM
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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.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 2, 2020 6:02 PM
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One of our Dinosaurs is Missing is another good one.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 2, 2020 6:04 PM
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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].
by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 2, 2020 6:05 PM
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I'll watch anything with Joe Flynn in it.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 2, 2020 6:05 PM
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What about Wally Cox? Wasn’t he in a bunch of these?
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 2, 2020 6:07 PM
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[Quote] Are these all on Disney+, OP?
Don't know but I'm sure many are. I have the dvd/blu ray discs. Fun!
by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 2, 2020 6:16 PM
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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.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 2, 2020 6:48 PM
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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.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 23 | October 2, 2020 7:14 PM
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[italic] The Three Lives of Thomasina [/italic] was cute.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 24 | October 2, 2020 7:19 PM
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No [italic]Moonspinners[/italic]? I'm not joining you then.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 2, 2020 8:51 PM
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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.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 2, 2020 8:58 PM
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[quote]20,000 Leaks Under the Sea
Oh, dear.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 2, 2020 9:12 PM
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[quote]all the others are childish peplum.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 28 | October 2, 2020 9:13 PM
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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.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 3, 2020 4:30 AM
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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.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 31 | October 3, 2020 8:23 AM
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"Darby O'Gill and the Little People" and also "Babes in Toyland"!!!
by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 3, 2020 8:40 AM
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Swiss Family Robinson. James MacArthur was hot as fuck.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 3, 2020 8:45 AM
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The Absent Minded Professor.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 3, 2020 9:00 AM
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I still love The Mystery In Dracula's Castle.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 37 | October 3, 2020 1:45 PM
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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.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 3, 2020 2:26 PM
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They had some great live action movies for kids. Black Arrow was another favorite of mine back then.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 3, 2020 2:40 PM
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These movies explain why the baby boomers turned out the way they did.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 3, 2020 3:13 PM
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They used to show The Love Bug at my elementary school during February vacation week.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 41 | October 3, 2020 4:32 PM
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The World's Greatest Athlete. Jan-Michael Vincent in a loin cloth...nuff said.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 42 | October 3, 2020 5:07 PM
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I love Schlong of Norway.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | October 3, 2020 5:51 PM
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Disney had nothing to do with "Song of Norway."
by Anonymous | reply 46 | October 3, 2020 6:25 PM
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What, no Bedknobs and Broomsticks?
And you have the audacity to post on DL.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | October 3, 2020 9:09 PM
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What about MOON PILOT?!?!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 50 | October 3, 2020 9:11 PM
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Gay hottie Tom Tryon was in Moon Pilot
by Anonymous | reply 51 | October 3, 2020 9:13 PM
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I always had a soft spot for Rascal, The Three Lives of Thomasina, Greyfriars Bobby, and Summer Magic
by Anonymous | reply 52 | October 3, 2020 9:17 PM
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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.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 53 | October 3, 2020 11:35 PM
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It would be fun to watch [italic]The Happiest Millionaire[/italic] and that movie about the Detroit riots back to back.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | October 4, 2020 4:26 AM
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The original That Darn Cat and The Love Bug are my favorites!
by Anonymous | reply 55 | October 4, 2020 4:28 AM
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For a Sherman Brothers musical that is not and was never intended to be over 2 hours long, there's [italic]Summer Magic[/italic].
by Anonymous | reply 56 | October 4, 2020 4:29 AM
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The 3 Lives of Thomasina was very jarring to me as a child.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | October 4, 2020 4:31 AM
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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.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | October 4, 2020 4:35 AM
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I also like "Johnny Tremaine".
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 59 | October 4, 2020 4:38 AM
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This one I had never even heard of until I came across it on YouTube.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 60 | October 4, 2020 4:41 AM
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R59 Loved that, hot twinks.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | October 4, 2020 5:01 AM
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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....
by Anonymous | reply 62 | October 4, 2020 2:19 PM
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“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.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | October 4, 2020 2:44 PM
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I love The North Avenue Irregulars but k can’t find it anywhere!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 64 | October 4, 2020 2:46 PM
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The North Ave Irregulars is on Amazon Prime for purchase. I bought it this week.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | October 4, 2020 4:26 PM
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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.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | October 4, 2020 4:53 PM
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GUS, with Don Knotts and Gary Grimes !
by Anonymous | reply 67 | October 4, 2020 4:55 PM
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I loved In Search of the Castaways.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | October 4, 2020 5:02 PM
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Jesus Christ, OP, you're a glutton for punishment.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | October 4, 2020 5:11 PM
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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.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | October 4, 2020 5:54 PM
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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.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | October 4, 2020 5:57 PM
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Has anyone mentioned that "The Gnome Mobile" is perhaps the finest production in the history of the cinematic arts?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 72 | October 4, 2020 6:01 PM
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[quote]And of course THE HARDY BOYS - with Tim & Tom.
Don't forget Spin & Marty!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 74 | October 4, 2020 6:51 PM
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I had a crush on the guy who played Johnny Tremain
by Anonymous | reply 75 | October 4, 2020 6:52 PM
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I like Those Calloways, featuring cutie Brandon DeWilde. The scenery is really beautiful, too
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 76 | October 4, 2020 7:00 PM
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The Apple Dumpling Gang. Disney certainly has a thing for precocious orphans.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 77 | October 4, 2020 8:11 PM
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The Watcher in the Woods is NOTHING compared to my star turn in the Witch Mountain films.
Suck it, Kyle!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 79 | October 4, 2020 9:00 PM
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Escape to Witch Mountain was my favorite movie as a child.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | October 4, 2020 9:03 PM
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R80 same, loved it. watched it again recently. Has aged poorly, but Ike was still cute.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | October 4, 2020 9:25 PM
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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.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 82 | October 4, 2020 9:27 PM
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Ike was adorable. I loved him shirtless and tied down in the sequel.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | October 4, 2020 9:28 PM
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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).
by Anonymous | reply 84 | October 5, 2020 1:27 AM
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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+...
by Anonymous | reply 85 | October 5, 2020 1:37 AM
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I am impressed this has not turned into a Bedknobs and Broomsticks rage page.
Good work, men.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | October 5, 2020 2:36 AM
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what, no Apple Dumpling Gang?
by Anonymous | reply 87 | October 5, 2020 3:03 AM
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What about Pete's Dragon? R.I.P., Helen Reddy!
by Anonymous | reply 88 | October 5, 2020 3:28 AM
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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.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | October 5, 2020 3:51 AM
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[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].
by Anonymous | reply 90 | October 5, 2020 3:55 AM
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r87 You really couldn't be bothered to read 10 posts back?
by Anonymous | reply 91 | October 5, 2020 3:59 AM
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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.....
by Anonymous | reply 92 | October 5, 2020 3:29 PM
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