Author: Andrew Carrieri

Based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novel of the same name and loosely on real events from eighteenth-century British history, Disney’s Kidnapped was theatrically released on February 24, 1960. The live action adventure drama is ninety-four minutes in length. Plot Summary In 1752 Scotland, a young man named David Balfour (James MacArthur) treks to the…

Based on Conrad Richter’s 1953 novel of the same name and on actual events involving European settlers and Native Americans in the mid-eighteenth-century Pennsylvania backcountry, Disney’s The Light in the Forest was theatrically released on August 8, 1958. The live action drama is ninety-three minutes in length. Plot Summary In late-1764, British forces under the…

Based on Robert Lewis Taylor’s 1961 novel A Journey to Matecumbe, Disney’s Treasure of Matecumbe was theatrically released on July 1, 1976. The live action drama is 117 minutes in length. Plot Summary In post-Civil War Kentucky, young Davie Burnie (Johnny Doran) and his aunts, Effie (Jane Wyatt) and Lou (Virginia Vincent), face the loss…

Based on the Reverend Albert Fay Hill’s 1968 book of the same name, Disney’s The North Avenue Irregulars was theatrically released on February 9, 1979. The live action mystery comedy is 100 minutes in length. Disney’s movie loosely portrays the real events chronicled in Hill’s book. To this end, the story’s setting was moved by…

A live action drama based on Mary Jane Carr’s 1934 novel Children of the Covered Wagon: A Story of the Old Oregon Trail and loosely on United States history, Disney’s Westward Ho, the Wagons! was theatrically released on December 20, 1956. The film is ninety-five minutes in length. Plot Summary In the mid-nineteenth century, a…

Based closely on actual events that occurred during the American Civil War, Disney’s The Great Locomotive Chase was theatrically released on June 8, 1956. The live action drama is eighty-seven minutes in length. Plot Summary and Andrews Raid The Great Locomotive Chase portrays the Andrews Raid of April 12, 1862 using the actual names of…

A live action drama based on an original story idea by Disney veteran Larry Lansburgh, The Littlest Outlaw was theatrically released on December 22, 1955. The film is seventy-three minutes in length. The Littlest Outlaw was Disney’s seventh completely live action feature film, following Treasure Island (1950), The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie…

Based on the life of Scottish outlaw and folk hero Rob Roy MacGregor (1671-1734), Disney’s Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue was theatrically released on February 4, 1954. The live action drama is eighty-one minutes in length. Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue was the last of four Disney films, following Treasure Island (1950), The Story of…

Based on Charles Major’s 1898 novel When Knighthood Was in Flower and loosely on British history, Disney’s The Sword and the Rose was theatrically released on August 8, 1953. The live action drama is ninety-three minutes in length. The Sword and the Rose was the third of four Disney films, following Treasure Island (1950) and…

Based loosely on Mark Twain’s 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Disney’s Unidentified Flying Oddball was theatrically released on July 26, 1979. The live action comedy is ninety-four minutes in length. In the United Kingdom, Unidentified Flying Oddball was released as The Spaceman and King Arthur. (1) Plot Summary In a meeting…

Based on David Forrest’s 1970 novel The Great Dinosaur Robbery, Disney’s One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing was theatrically released on July 9, 1975. The live action mystery comedy is ninety-four minutes in length. Plot Summary In post-World War I Britain, a middle-aged man named Lord Southmere (Derek Nimmo) attempts to flee a band of…