Category: Disney Movies

Based on James Oliver Curwood’s 1919 novel Nomads of the North, Disney’s Nikki, Wild Dog of the North was theatrically released on July 12, 1961. The live action nature adventure is seventy-four minutes in length. Plot Summary In the Canadian northwest of 1899, a kindly fur trader named Andre Dupas (Jean Coutu) travels with his…

Based on Felix Salten’s 1938 novel Perri: The Youth of a Squirrel, Disney’s Perri was theatrically released on August 28, 1957. The live action nature adventure is seventy-five minutes in length. Perri was the second of six Disney films based on a Salten novel, following Bambi (1942) and preceding The Shaggy Dog (1959, 2006), The…

Based in part on Kenneth Grahame’s 1898 short story of the same name, Disney’s The Reluctant Dragon was theatrically released on June 20, 1941. The live action-animation hybrid, which uses a tour of Disney’s newly-opened studio complex in Burbank, California as a thread between disparate animated segments, is seventy-four minutes in length. Plot Summary The…

Based on Sheila Burnford’s 1961 novel of the same name, Disney’s The Incredible Journey was theatrically released on November 20, 1963. The live action adventure drama is eighty minutes in length. A remake, Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, was theatrically released on February 3, 1993. Plot Summary In contemporary Canada, a middle-aged bachelor named John…

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…

The latest Disney live action movie is in theatres now, and as always, it is a fantastic movie! Christopher Robin is based on the old Winnie the Pooh movies, shows & books. It looks at the life of Christopher Robin as an adult & helps him find his way in life. It is a cute…

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…

Disney Movie Nights are always a favorite way to celebrate an upcoming trip to Disneyland or Walt Disney World. Cars, Cars 2, and Cars 3 are classic Disney-Pixar films. The excitement, nostalgia, and laughs are one reason my family loves to incorporate one of these movies into our Disney Movie Nights. Decorating for this movie…

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…