Category: Disney Movies

DVD Cover Copyright Disney A live action suspense comedy, No Deposit, No Return was theatrically released on February 5, 1976. The film, which debuted as part of a double bill with Dumbo (1941) in the New York City area, is 112 minutes in length. (1) Plot Summary Hoping for a long-awaited reunion with their traveling…

Image Copyright Disney Based on Robert Buckner’s 1960 novel Starfire, Moon Pilot was theatrically released on April 5, 1962. The live action science fiction drama and comedy is ninety-eight minutes in length. Plot Summary In Washington D.C., scientists and politicians alike anxiously await the expected return of an astronaut named Charley from a spin around…

It may be a tale as old as time, but Disney’s new live-action Beauty and the Beast is far from dowdy. The box office numbers from both the US box office sales and international ticket sales have been outstanding; but the reviews have come in on both sides of the ‘go see it’ or ‘don’t’…

Image Copyright Disney A sequel to The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964), The Monkey’s Uncle was theatrically released on August 18, 1965. The live action comedy is eighty-seven minutes in length. Plot Summary Like its predecessor, The Monkey’s Uncle features two related segments, akin to episodes of a television series, instead of a single plot-based…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney A live action comedy based on G.K. Wilkinson’s 1962 novel The Monkeys, Monkeys, Go Home! was theatrically released on February 8, 1967. The film, the first Disney movie released following the death of Walt Disney on December 15, 1966, is 101 minutes in length. Plot Summary With an inheritance and a…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney A sequel to The Shaggy Dog (1959), The Shaggy D.A. was theatrically released on December 17, 1976. The live action comedy is ninety-one minutes in length. Plot Summary In the suburban town of Medfield, a string of burglaries has the citizenry on edge. Much to the populace’s chagrin, the local District…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney Disney’s first live action comedy, The Shaggy Dog was theatrically released on March 19, 1959. The film, which was based on Felix Salten’s 1923 novel The Hound of Florence, is 104 minutes in length. The Shaggy Dog  inspired a 1976 sequel, The Shaggy D.A., and a 2006 remake, also called The…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney A fantasy drama based on Paul Gallico’s 1957 novel Thomasina, the Cat Who Thought She Was God, The Three Lives of Thomasina was theatrically released on June 6, 1964. The live action flick is ninety-seven minutes in length. Although The Black Hole (1979) was the first Disney film to receive a…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney A live action musical drama, Almost Angels was theatrically released on September 26, 1962. The film, which was shown as part of a double bill with Lady and the Tramp (1955) (1), is ninety-three minutes in length. Plot Summary In contemporary Vienna, Austria, the Vienna Boys’ Choir returns via train following…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney A musical drama and comedy based on Kate Douglas Wiggin’s 1911 novel Mother Carey’s Chickens, Summer Magic was theatrically released on July 7, 1963. The live action film is 110 minutes in length. Plot Summary In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Boston, the Carey family, which consists of a mother named Margaret (Dorothy McGuire), a…

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official movie poster for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story My love affair with Star Wars began just a year after my love affair with Disney theme parks. There I was, a 7 year old girl in the movie theaters with my family, about to see this new film that just came out from that…