Category: Disney Movies

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…

  Note: This review is largely spoiler free, but you might learn some details about the film. Fourteen years ago, we were introduced to the Parr family, a group of underground superheroes just trying to get by. With its 20th feature film, Pixar heads back to Brad Bird (of the original and Ratatouille) for both…

I stand and fidget with the tickets to Solo: A Star Wars Story. The nervous excitement has been building for a few days now. After all, this will be the first of the ‘new’ Star Wars stories that I will see at the same time as the rest of the United States. Solo is also…

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…

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…