Movies: Disney Erstwhile

by qempyrean | created - 15 Sep 2020 | updated - 9 months ago | Public

Live-action films from the era of "Walt Disney Productions" as released by Buena Vista Distribution Co. Inc.

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1. The Barefoot Executive (1971)

G | 96 min | Comedy, Family

55 Metascore

A mailroom clerk and a chimp team up to pick hit TV shows.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Harry Morgan, Wally Cox

Votes: 2,061

2. Scandalous John (1971)

G | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Brian Keith, Alfonso Arau, Michele Carey, Rick Lenz

Votes: 177 | Gross: $0.03M

3. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)

G | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

54 Metascore

At Medfield College, an accident with a donated computer gives Dexter Riley the ability to remember any knowledge learned instantly and perfectly.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, William Schallert

Votes: 5,947 | Gross: $0.73M

4. Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)

G | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

A chemistry student invents a spray that makes its wearer invisible. A crook finds out about it, and plans to steal it for himself.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, Jim Backus

Votes: 2,293

5. Guns in the Heather (1969)

144 min | Adventure, Family

Walt Disney's 3-part made-for-TV feature, The Secret of Boyne Castle (1969), originally shown on "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" (the new title for "Disneyland"), re-edited into feature film form for European theatrical release.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Glenn Corbett, Alfred Burke, Kurt Russell, Patrick Barr

Votes: 130

6. Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978)

G | 90 min | Comedy, Western

This saga of the old west involves twin brothers who compete for possession of a rickety cow town founded by their father while a crooked Mayor tries to put an end to the competitors so he can inherit the town himself.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Jim Dale, Darren McGavin, Karen Valentine, Don Knotts

Votes: 1,473

7. Dad... Can I Borrow the Car? (1970 TV Movie)

G | 22 min | Comedy, Family

A live-action short, using many avant-garde film techniques, that looks at American car culture in the late 1960s. The main section deals with the many trials and obstacles a teenager must ... See full summary »

Director: Ward Kimball | Stars: Kurt Russell, Spencer Quinn, Jesse White, Peter Renaday

Votes: 187

9. Kidnapped (1960)

Approved | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee, John Laurie

Votes: 1,609

10. Moon Pilot (1962)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Away on a short leave before an upcoming moon launch, a NASA astronaut disappears and is feared kidnapped when the security services learn about his friendship with a suspected foreign female spy.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Tom Tryon, Brian Keith, Edmond O'Brien, Dany Saval

Votes: 536

11. Snowball Express (1972)

G | 93 min | Comedy, Family

When John Baxter inherits a ski resort in the Rocky Mountains, he quits his job in New York and moves west to run it--only to find his "estate" in a state of total dilapidation.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Dean Jones, Nancy Olson, Harry Morgan, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 2,041

12. The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)

Approved | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A young man from Boston heads west to join the California gold rush with the hopes of restoring his family fortune, but his dedicated butler sets out to find him and bring him home.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, Karl Malden, Harry Guardino

Votes: 1,310

13. The Boatniks (1970)

G | 99 min | Comedy, Family

Newly assigned to duty in the coast guard at Newport Beach, a young ensign finds himself involved in romantic complications, as well as with jewel thieves, whose antics contribute to moments of hysteria and hilarity.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers, Phil Silvers, Norman Fell

Votes: 859 | Gross: $18.61M

14. The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968)

G | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Frederick Bolton has to solve two problems. First, his boss has instructed him to come up with a reasonable campaign to promote a new product, a stomach pill named "Aspercel" - by tomorrow.... See full summary »

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Dean Jones, Diane Baker, Lloyd Bochner, Fred Clark

Votes: 1,134

15. The Moon-Spinners (1964)

G | 118 min | Adventure, Family, Mystery

A teenager encounters romance, intrigue and a search for stolen jewels during her visit to the island of Crete.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Hayley Mills, Eli Wallach, Pola Negri, Peter McEnery

Votes: 3,022 | Gross: $3.50M

16. The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963)

PG | 97 min | Drama, Family

Thomasina the cat brings a family together, through her mysterious death and reappearance.

Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Susan Hampshire, Laurence Naismith, Jean Anderson

Votes: 2,602

17. Charley and the Angel (1973)

G | 93 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Cloris Leachman, Harry Morgan, Kurt Russell

Votes: 643

18. The Happiest Millionaire (1967)

Approved | 141 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

Clever yet hapless new butler John Lawless manages a Philadelphia household for quirky and joyful millionaire Anthony Drexel Biddle, his unflappable wife, Cordelia, and their spitfire daughter, Cordy.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Tommy Steele, Greer Garson, Gladys Cooper

Votes: 2,431

19. Follow Me, Boys! (1966)

Approved | 131 min | Drama, Family

A man settles down in a small town and becomes the scoutmaster.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Lillian Gish, Charles Ruggles

Votes: 2,607

20. Bon Voyage! (1962)

Not Rated | 130 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A family takes a long delayed trip to Europe and finds an unending series of comedy adventures.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Jane Wyman, Michael Callan, Deborah Walley

Votes: 764

21. The Absent Minded Professor (1961)

Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

75 Metascore

A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk

Votes: 9,284 | Gross: $25.38M

22. Son of Flubber (1962)

Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

When Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets in trouble and only his students can help.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk

Votes: 3,213 | Gross: $22.13M

23. The Shaggy Dog (1959)

Approved | 104 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

45 Metascore

A teenage boy is cursed with periodically turning into a sheepdog.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello

Votes: 5,578 | Gross: $0.10M

24. Never a Dull Moment (1968)

G | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

Actor Jack Albany, who plays gangsters on TV, is mistaken for notorious hit-man Ace, and is hired by mob boss Leo Smooth to pull a heist, but Jack must find a way out of it.

Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine, Henry Silva

Votes: 796

25. Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966)

G | 110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A Navy pilot is marooned on an island with a headhunter's daughter and outcast tribal women.

Director: Byron Paul | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Nancy Kwan, Akim Tamiroff, Arthur Malet

Votes: 1,565 | Gross: $22.57M

26. The Shaggy D.A. (1976)

G | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

60 Metascore

Wilby Daniels, now all grown up and running for district attorney, finds himself once again turning into a shaggy dog at inopportune moments.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Tim Conway, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 3,396

27. Those Calloways (1965)

Approved | 131 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A strong-willed family in a small New England town struggles against tremendous odds to realize their dream of establishing a sanctuary for the great flocks of wild geese that migrate overhead.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Brandon De Wilde, Walter Brennan

Votes: 837

28. Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

Approved | 106 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

71 Metascore

An unassuming track coach accidentally invokes the spirit of a notorious pirate long believed dead, and who must now team up to lay the pirate to rest, and save a local hotel from a mobster.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 6,761 | Gross: $10.90M

29. The Million Dollar Duck (1971)

G | 89 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

45 Metascore

Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a pet for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Dean Jones, Sandy Duncan, Joe Flynn, Tony Roberts

Votes: 2,682 | Gross: $11.12M

30. The Love Bug (1969)

G | 108 min | Comedy, Family, Sport

48 Metascore

Down-on-his-luck race car driver Jim Douglas teams up with a little VW Bug that has a mind of it's own, not realizing Herbie's worth until a sneaky rival plots to steal him.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson, Buddy Hackett

Votes: 17,551 | Gross: $5.09M

31. Herbie Rides Again (1974)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

49 Metascore

The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers, John McIntire

Votes: 8,846 | Gross: $38.23M

32. Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)

G | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

38 Metascore

Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. Unbeknownst to Herbie's driver, thieves have hidden a stolen diamond in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get it back.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Dean Jones, Don Knotts, Julie Sommars, Jacques Marin

Votes: 8,127

33. Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)

G | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

55 Metascore

The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Charles Martin Smith, Stephen W. Burns, Cloris Leachman, John Vernon

Votes: 6,255 | Gross: $18.00M

34. The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)

G | 100 min | Comedy, Family, Western

59 Metascore

Three orphan children strike gold in 1878 California.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Bill Bixby, Susan Clark, Don Knotts, Tim Conway

Votes: 6,570 | Gross: $36.85M

35. The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)

G | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Western

37 Metascore

The adventures of two idiotic outlaw wannabees, Amos and Theodore.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Tim Matheson, Kenneth Mars

Votes: 3,265 | Gross: $20.93M

36. Gus (1976)

Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Family, Sport

52 Metascore

The inept 'California Atoms,' floundering in the cellar of the National Football League, welcome the team's newest member - a mule capable of place kicking a football 100 yards with deadly accuracy.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Edward Asner, Don Knotts, Gary Grimes, Tim Conway

Votes: 2,169

37. No Deposit, No Return (1976)

G | 112 min | Comedy, Family

During school-break, two kids are to stay with their rich Grandpa but they would rather join their mother overseas, so, in need of plane-ticket cash, they convince two petty-criminals to fake-kidnap them for a ransom they could all share.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: David Niven, Darren McGavin, Don Knotts, Herschel Bernardi

Votes: 1,681

38. Big Red (1962)

Not Rated | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A wealthy sportsman's decision to hire a backwoods orphan to exercise a champion Irish Setter has unexpected consequences.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Gilles Payant, Émile Genest, Janette Bertrand

Votes: 843

39. Savage Sam (1963)

Approved | 103 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Travis, Arliss, and Lisbeth are captured by Apaches while Old Yeller's son, Sam, tracks their trail.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Brian Keith, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Dewey Martin

Votes: 1,176 | Gross: $6.54M

40. A Tiger Walks (1964)

Approved | 91 min | Drama, Family

A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surrounding woods. This throws the town into a panic and everyone wants the animal killed ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Pamela Franklin, Sabu

Votes: 405

41. The Ugly Dachshund (1966)

Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Family

The Garrisons live with a Great Dane who thinks he's a dainty dachshund. His identity crisis results in an uproarious series of household crises that reduce the Garrisons' house to shambles.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Charles Ruggles, Kelly Thordsen

Votes: 4,667 | Gross: $13.52M

42. Rascal (1969)

G | 85 min | Drama, Family

A young boy's summer vacation is brightened by a special friend, a young raccoon whom he names "Rascal".

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Steve Forrest, Bill Mumy, Pamela Toll, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 530

43. Candleshoe (1977)

G | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

68 Metascore

Welcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey and a sly con man are determined to find.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes, Leo McKern

Votes: 4,953

44. The Cat from Outer Space (1978)

G | 104 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

58 Metascore

Three scientists help an Alien feline, stranded on Earth, to repair its damaged spacecraft in order to return home but their efforts are hampered by inept army officials and foreign spies.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan, Roddy McDowall

Votes: 6,101

45. Amy (1981)

G | 100 min | Drama, Family

A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal training she successfully teaches one boy.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Jenny Agutter, Barry Newman, Kathleen Nolan, Chris Robinson

Votes: 600

46. Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog (1961)

Approved | 87 min | Drama, Family

The remarkable veritable story of a terrier named Bobby and the enduring friendship he forges with a tenderhearted shepherd known simply as Old Jock---unbroken even by the kindly old man's death.

Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Donald Crisp, Laurence Naismith, Alex Mackenzie, Duncan Macrae

Votes: 1,852

47. Emil and the Detectives (1964)

Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.

Director: Peter Tewksbury | Stars: Walter Slezak, Bryan Russell, Roger Mobley, Heinz Schubert

Votes: 824

48. The North Avenue Irregulars (1979)

G | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A new preacher in town joins forces with an unlikely group of crimefighters: six dedicated church ladies who are ready, but not necessarily equipped--to help.

Director: Bruce Bilson | Stars: Edward Herrmann, Barbara Harris, Susan Clark, Karen Valentine

Votes: 1,362

49. That Darn Cat! (1965)

Approved | 116 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

71 Metascore

After a kidnapped bank teller uses a neighbor's wandering cat to send an S.O.S., the F.B.I. assigns a cat-allergic Agent to the case.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall

Votes: 7,918 | Gross: $28.06M

50. The Biscuit Eater (1972)

G | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

In this touching adventure, a remake of the popular 1940 film, two Georgia young boys team up and befriend a feral bird dog, whom they train to participate in a field trials.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Earl Holliman, Pat Crowley, Lew Ayres, Godfrey Cambridge

Votes: 550 | Gross: $0.42M

51. Treasure of Matecumbe (1976)

G | 117 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

In 1869 Kentucky, a young boy and his friends set out to find a treasure chest hidden by his late father in the Florida Everglades during the Civil War.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Robert Foxworth, Joan Hackett, Peter Ustinov, Vic Morrow

Votes: 988

52. The Castaway Cowboy (1974)

G | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Western

A Texas cowboy is rescued at sea by a 12-year-old boy. While he waits to return home, he decides to help out his rescuer's family.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: James Garner, Vera Miles, Robert Culp, Eric Shea

Votes: 910

53. Almost Angels (1962)

Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Family, Music

Supported avidly by his mother and more reluctantly at first by his father, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Choirboys, where he proves to be unusually talented. The standard ... See full summary »

Director: Steve Previn | Stars: Vincent Winter, Sean Scully, Peter Weck, Hans Holt

Votes: 673

54. The Bears and I (1974)

G | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A man seeking peace and quiet finds himself father to three bears.

Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: Patrick Wayne, Chief Dan George, Andrew Duggan, Michael Ansara

Votes: 581 | Gross: $0.27M

55. The Parent Trap (1961)

Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

73 Metascore

Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.

Director: David Swift | Stars: Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Charles Ruggles

Votes: 24,001

56. Pollyanna (1960)

Approved | 134 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

66 Metascore

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

Director: David Swift | Stars: Jane Wyman, Hayley Mills, Richard Egan, Karl Malden

Votes: 11,351

57. Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

G | 126 min | Adventure, Family

61 Metascore

A Swiss family must survive being shipwrecked on a deserted island.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro

Votes: 18,178 | Gross: $40.36M

58. Summer Magic (1963)

Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

A Bostonian widow moves with her kids to the country.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Hayley Mills, Dorothy McGuire, Burl Ives, Deborah Walley

Votes: 2,731

59. Freaky Friday (1976)

G | 98 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

51 Metascore

A mother and daughter find their personalities switched and have to live each other's lives on one strange Friday.

Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Barbara Harris, Jodie Foster, John Astin, Patsy Kelly

Votes: 14,096 | Gross: $25.94M

60. The Island at the Top of the World (1974)

G | 93 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

In 1907, four explorers discover a lost colony of Vikings in the Arctic.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: David Hartman, Donald Sinden, Jacques Marin, Mako

Votes: 3,162

61. In Search of the Castaways (1962)

Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

In 19th century England, young Mary Grant and her brother, Robert, embark on a dangerous quest to find their missing father, a sea captain who vanished somewhere along the Chilean coast.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Hayley Mills, Maurice Chevalier, George Sanders, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Votes: 3,457 | Gross: $21.75M

62. Old Yeller (1957)

Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

84 Metascore

A teenage boy grows to love a stray yellow dog while helping his mother and younger brother run their Texas homestead while their father is away on a cattle drive. First thought to be good-for-nothing mutt, Old Yeller is soon beloved by all.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk, Jeff York

Votes: 15,181 | Gross: $21.91M

63. The Gnome-Mobile (1967)

Approved | 84 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

In the Redwood Forests of California, a multi-millionaire lumberman and his two young grandchildren encounter two gnomes who are supposedly the last of their kind.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Walter Brennan, Matthew Garber, Karen Dotrice, Richard Deacon

Votes: 2,435

64. Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)

G | 93 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

80 Metascore

A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Jimmy O'Dea

Votes: 9,373

65. The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968)

Passed | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

The eleven members of the Bower family move to Dakota Territory.

Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Lesley Ann Warren, John Davidson

Votes: 1,036

66. The Strongest Man in the World (1975)

G | 92 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

63 Metascore

Dexter Riley and his friends accidently discover a new chemical mixed with a cereal seems to give anyone temporary superhuman strength

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden, Cesar Romero

Votes: 3,739

67. The Wild Country (1970)

G | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A family leaves city life to take possession of a Wyoming ranch.

Director: Robert Totten | Stars: Steve Forrest, Vera Miles, Ron Howard, Clint Howard

Votes: 349

68. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode: The Mooncussers: Graveyard of Ships (1962)

Unrated | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A young boy discovers the existence of a group called the Mooncussers - a gang of pirates that work at night and sends out false homing signals to ships at sea; the ships then crash on the shore, where they are looted by the gang.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Oscar Homolka, Kevin Corcoran, Robert Emhardt, Rian Garrick

Votes: 61

69. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh: Part 1 (1963)

Unrated | 129 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The adventures of a disguised vicar who fights for justice in 18th-century England.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, George Cole, Tony Britton, Michael Hordern

Votes: 711

70. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode: The Secret of Boyne Castle: Part 1 (1969)

Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A young American studying in Ireland, Rich Evans, becomes involved with Russian agents and a defecting scientist, after he hears a warning from a dying man.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Glenn Corbett, Alfred Burke, Kurt Russell, Patrick Dawson

Votes: 51

71. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode: Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove: Part 1 (1971)

Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A school teacher thinks he saw sea monster in the calm waters of Strawberry Cove. Three kids then build one in defense of their teacher and set out to find what's behind the mystery.

Director: Jack Shea | Stars: Parley Baer, Jimmy Bracken, Patrick Creamer, Bob Hastings

Votes: 15

72. Mystery in Dracula's Castle (1973 TV Movie)

TV-G | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror

Two brothers and a stray dog stumble upon some jewel thieves in a lighthouse.

Director: Robert Totten | Stars: Clu Gulager, Mariette Hartley, Johnny Whitaker, Mills Watson

Votes: 150

73. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode: The Mystery in Dracula's Castle: Part 1 (1973)

Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Two bored kids in a vacation town get involved with thieves when they try to make their own horror movie. They find a stray dog, who brings them a stolen necklace, which they use in their movie.

Director: Robert Totten | Stars: Clu Gulager, Mariette Hartley, Johnny Whitaker, Mills Watson

Votes: 24

74. Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963)

G | 98 min | Adventure

In eighteenth century England, the mysterious masked rider known as the Scarecrow (Patrick McGoohan) leads a rebel band to save the town of Romney Marsh from King George III's (Eric Pohlmann's) oppression and Naval press gangs.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, George Cole, Tony Britton, Michael Hordern

Votes: 659

75. Monkeys, Go Home! (1967)

Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Family

A young American inherits an olive farm in France and decides to use four chimpanzees to harvest the fruit when he finds the price of the local labor to be too costly.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Dean Jones, Yvette Mimieux, Bernard Woringer

Votes: 585

76. The Monkey's Uncle (1965)

G | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

A student is able to save Midvale College's football reputation using his radical invention.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames, Arthur O'Connell

Votes: 998

77. The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Merlin Jones, resident genius at Midvale College, inadvertently gets into a string of scrapes, both in college and with the law-much to the distress of his long-suffering girlfriend and the local district judge.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 855

78. Babes in Toyland (1961)

Approved | 106 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

55 Metascore

Mary Contrary is set to marry Tom Piper when he is kidnapped by Roderigo and Gonzorgo, two goons working for the evil Barnaby who wants to marry Mary for her inheritance.

Director: Jack Donohue | Stars: Ray Bolger, Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello, Ed Wynn

Votes: 4,819 | Gross: $10.22M

79. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode: The Treasure of San Bosco Reef: Part 1 (1968)

Unrated | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Young David Jones travels to Italy during his vacation to work with his uncle, Max, an archaeologist who raises ancient artifacts from the ocean floor.

Director: Robert L. Friend | Stars: James Daly, Roger Mobley, Nehemiah Persoff, John van Dreelen

Votes: 27

80. Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955)

Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

American frontiersman Davy Crockett fights in the Creek Indian War, is elected to the U.S. Congress and fights for Texas at the Alamo.

Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Basil Ruysdael, Hans Conried

Votes: 4,891

81. Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956)

Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Davy and his friends leave for New Orleans to sell some fur pelts.

Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Jeff York, Kenneth Tobey

Votes: 2,438

82. Johnny Tremain (1957)

Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Family, War

Johnny Tremain is drawn into the Revolutionary War, and becomes a patriot fighting to free the colonies from England. Along the way he learns about life and about himself.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Hal Stalmaster, Luana Patten, Jeff York, Sebastian Cabot

Votes: 1,949

83. The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)

Approved | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Family

During the Civil War Union spy Andrews and his men volunteer to steal a Confederate train and drive it to Union territory while destroying the Confederate railway system along the way.

Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York, John Lupton

Votes: 1,375

84. The Light in the Forest (1958)

Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A young white man who spent his whole life raised by Native Americans is sent to live with his birth family and must learn to fit in with people he was taught to hate.

Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Fess Parker, Wendell Corey, Joanne Dru, James MacArthur

Votes: 703

85. Tonka (1958)

Approved | 97 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The remarkable and ironical story of a wild colt that changes owners around the time of the Great Sioux War of 1876.

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Sal Mineo, Philip Carey, Jerome Courtland, H.M. Wynant

Votes: 513

86. Third Man on the Mountain (1959)

Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A boy attempts to realize his father's dream of climbing an alpine peak known as the Citadel.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Michael Rennie, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, James Donald

Votes: 1,247

87. The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode: Sammy, the Way-Out Seal: Part 1 (1962)

Unrated | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Two brothers adopt an injured seal on their vacation and decide to bring it home.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Jack Carson, Robert Culp, Patricia Barry, Elisabeth Fraser

Votes: 268

88. The Sword and the Rose (1953)

Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

During the reign of Henry VIII, Mary Tudor seeks to flee a forced marriage with the French king by escaping to America with her true love, but her plans are not so easily executed.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough

Votes: 999

89. Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue (1953)

Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The wartime adventures of Scotish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor during the reign of King George I in the 18th century.

Director: Harold French | Stars: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough

Votes: 661

90. Ten Who Dared (1960)

Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Family, Western

Major John Wesley Powell leads an expedition through the Grand Canyon to chart the Colorado River.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Brian Keith, John Beal, James Drury, R.G. Armstrong

Votes: 308

91. Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960)

Approved | 96 min | Drama, Family

Taken in by distant members of his family after being orphaned, Toby Tyler runs away to join the circus.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Kevin Corcoran, Henry Calvin, Gene Sheldon, Bob Sweeney

Votes: 1,056

92. The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952)

Approved | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Family

64 Metascore

When King Richard the Lionheart leaves England to lead a crusade to the Holy Land, his treacherous brother conspires to bring himself to power.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Richard Todd, Joan Rice, Peter Finch, James Hayter

Votes: 2,337 | Gross: $4.58M

93. Treasure Island (1950)

PG | 96 min | Adventure, Family

89 Metascore

The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver.

Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald

Votes: 9,476

94. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

G | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

83 Metascore

A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre

Votes: 37,207 | Gross: $28.20M

95. The Incredible Journey (1963)

G | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

87 Metascore

Two dogs and a cat set off on a treacherous 200-mile journey towards home.

Director: Fletcher Markle | Stars: Émile Genest, John Drainie, Tommy Tweed, Sandra Scott

Votes: 5,227

96. Smith! (1969)

G | 112 min | Drama, Family, Western

An Indian boy flees when he is accused of murder.

Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: Glenn Ford, Nancy Olson, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 285

97. The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966)

Not Rated | 110 min | Adventure, Biography, Family

After inheriting his father's title, the young noble, Hugh O'Connell, is taken hostage by the English viceroy but escapes to lead an uprising.

Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: Peter McEnery, Susan Hampshire, Tom Adams, Gordon Jackson

Votes: 429

98. Westward Ho, the Wagons! (1956)

Approved | 90 min | Family, Western

The adventures of a group of pioneers as their wagon train crosses the West.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Fess Parker, Kathleen Crowley, Jeff York, David Stollery

Votes: 405

99. The Littlest Outlaw (1955)

Not Rated | 73 min | Drama, Family

Little Pablito is the 10-year-old son of a cruel horse trainer who's responsible for training a Mexican general's horse to jump for the grand race. The trainer's methods cause the horse to ... See full summary »

Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Pedro Armendáriz, Joseph Calleia, Rodolfo Acosta, Andrés Velázquez

Votes: 311

100. So Dear to My Heart (1948)

Passed | 79 min | Animation, Drama, Family

This heartwarming classic tells the tale of a country boy who adopts a mischevious black lamb and learns valuable lessons about love and dedication.

Directors: Harold D. Schuster, Hamilton Luske | Stars: Burl Ives, Beulah Bondi, Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten

Votes: 1,678



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