Category: Disney Movies

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It’s 1994, I am sitting in a movie theater waiting for the feature to start. Honestly, I don’t recall what I was actually there to see. I do remember the lights dimming, the room in blackness, the breaking dawn, and the clear note “Na…”. The full sound of a chorus, in a language I didn’t…

  Disney has had it’s share of live action remakes & sequels, and 2019 is a big year for the Walt Disney Studios! As Disney fans have a busy year in the movie theater. First up, we had Dumbo, and now, we’ve got a live action Aladdin in theaters. Spoiler-it is one of the best…

2019 is a year full of anticipated Disney movies, particularly live action films. The first one of the year kicked off with Dumbo, which is a live action version of the original film, directed by Tim Burton. I may be a tad biased because Disney never seems to let me down with their films! However,…

Based on the first four installments of P. L. Travers’s eventual eight-part Mary Poppins book series, Disney’s Mary Poppins was theatrically released on August 27, 1964. The live action-animation hybrid musical adventure, deemed by many the magnum opus of Walt Disney’s filmmaking career, is 139 minutes in length. A live action drama depicting the true…

Based generally on the events towards the end of World War II that resulted in “Operation Cowboy,” where American troops rescued horses being horded by the Germans in Czechoslovakia from advancing Soviet troops, (1) and specifically on Alois Podhajsky’s autobiographical novel The Dancing White Horses of Vienna, Disney’s Miracle of the White Stallions was theatrically…

Based on Ernest Thompson Seton’s 1898 short story “Lobo the King of Currumpaw,” which was inspired by Seton’s wolf-hunting experiences in the American Southwest, Disney’s The Legend of Lobo was theatrically released on November 7, 1962. The live action nature adventure is sixty-seven minutes in length. Plot Summary In the late-nineteenth-century American Southwest, the native…

Based on Jim Kjelgaard’s 1945 novel of the same name, Disney’s Big Red was theatrically released on June 6, 1962. The live action nature drama is eighty-nine minutes in length. Big Red is essentially a poor man’s version of Old Yeller (1957), emotional ties between a young boy and a dog being the main plotline…

Based loosely on Victor Herbert’s 1903 operetta of the same name, Disney’s Babes in Toyland was theatrically released on December 14, 1961. The live action musical drama is 106 minutes in length. Plot Summary In the early autumn in Mother Goose Village, Mary Contrary (Annette Funicello) prepares to marry Tom Piper (Tommy Sands). Craving the…

Based on the true story of the Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869, where ten men under the leadership of university professor and Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell undertook an arduous three-month journey through the yet-unexplored terrain and waterways of the American Southwest, including the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon, Disney’s Ten Who Dared…

Based on Eleanor Atkinson’s 1912 novel of the same name, which was itself based on the real story of a nineteenth-century Skye Terrier who dutifully guarded his late owner’s Edinburgh grave for fourteen years, Disney’s Greyfriars Bobby was theatrically released on July 17, 1961. The live action drama is ninety-one minutes in length. Plot Summary…