Author: Andrew Carrieri

Based on MacKinlay Kantor’s 1954 novel God and My Country, Disney’s Follow Me, Boys! was theatrically released on December 1, 1966. The live action drama is 131 minutes in length. The film was the studio’s final release prior to Walt Disney’s death on December 15, 1966. Plot Summary In 1930, a middle-aged man named Lemuel…

Based on Richard Gardner’s 1963 novel of the same name, which is an Americanized version of Miguel de Cervantes’s classic Spanish novel Don Quixote, Disney’s Scandalous John was theatrically released on June 22, 1971. The live action comedy-drama is 113 minutes in length. Plot Summary In 1970 New Mexico, a confused old man named John…

A live action comedy-drama, Disney’s Superdad was theatrically released on December 14, 1973. The film is ninety-six minutes in length. Plot Summary In early-1970s Los Angeles, a middle-aged lawyer named Charlie McCready (Bob Crane) is worried about his teenage daughter, Wendy (Kathleen Cody), because Wendy’s friends, especially her boyfriend Bart (Kurt Russell), seemingly lack direction…

A live action comedy-drama based on Will Stanton’s 1971 novel The Golden Evenings of Summer, Disney’s Charley and the Angel was theatrically released on March 23, 1973. The film is ninety-three minutes in length. Plot Summary In a small midwestern town in the late summer of 1933, Charley Appleby (Fred MacMurray), the middle-aged father of…

A live action musical comedy-drama based on Laura Bower Van Nuys’s 1961 memoir The Family Band: From the Missouri to the Black Hills, 1881-1900, Disney’s The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band was theatrically released on March 21, 1968. The film is 110 minutes in length. Plot Summary In a small midwestern town in…

A live action comedy-western and sequel to The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975), Disney’s The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again was theatrically released on June 27, 1979. The film is eighty-eight minutes in length. Plot Summary At the end of The Apple Dumpling Gang, that film’s two inept bandits, Theodore (Don Knotts) and Amos (Tim Conway),…

Based on Jack Bickham’s 1971 novel of the same name, Disney’s The Apple Dumpling Gang was theatrically released on July 1, 1975. The live action comedy-western is one-hundred minutes in length. A sequel to The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, was theatrically released on June 27, 1979. Plot Summary In 1879…

A live action comedy-western, Disney’s Hot Lead and Cold Feet was theatrically released on July 5, 1978. The flick is ninety minutes in length. Plot Summary In the western American town of Bloodshy, the settlement’s elderly founder, Jasper Bloodshy (Jim Dale), is seemingly on the verge of death, and all of the residents expect his…

A live action comedy, Disney’s The World’s Greatest Athlete was theatrically released on February 14, 1973. The flick is ninety-three minutes in length. Plot Summary The sports teams at fictional Merrivale College, most notably the football, baseball, and basketball squads, all of which are coached by Sam Archer (John Amos) and his assistant Milo Jackson…

A live action comedy, Disney’s Gus was theatrically released on July 7, 1976. The film is ninety-seven minutes in length. Plot Summary The dawn of a new season brings sports fans hope that their teams will exceed the prognosticators’ expectations and maybe even win the league championship. Such optimism does not exist, however, among those…

Based loosely on Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe, Disney’s Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. was theatrically released on July 29, 1966. The live action comedy is 114 minutes in length. Plot Summary Writing to his fiancé, Jane, about a year after missing their wedding, Lieutenant Robin Crusoe (Dick Van Dyke) explains his whereabouts. You see,…

Based on John Godey’s 1967 novel A Thrill a Minute with Jack Albany, Disney’s Never a Dull Moment was theatrically released on June 26, 1968. The live action comedy, which was accompanied during its theatrical run by Disney’s 1933 short “The Three Little Pigs,” is 100 minutes in length. (1) Plot Summary In New York…