favorite live-action features

Loomis · Post by **Loomis** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 5:30 pm

Not a HUGE fan of live action, although I don't know why...
I do have a bunch of faves, though:
Darby O'Gill, Tron, Parent Trap (original), The Love Bug...and a few others I can't think of...

jesus_brer · Post by **jesus_brer** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 6:28 pm

the big green
babes in toyland
return to oz
ecape to witch mountain
the shaggy dog
blackbreads ghost
bedknobs and broomsticks
johnny tremain
light in the froest
darby o'gill and the little people
mary poppins
the parent trap
summer magic
in search of the castaway
cinderella
old yellower
swiss family robinson
20,000 leguegs?? under the sea
pollyana
so dear to my heart
song of the south
that darn cat
the monkeys unlce
the misadventures of merlin jones
teasure island
the watcher in the woods
big joe
thrid man on the mountain
horsemasters
toby tyler
parent trap2

Post by **Luke** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:10 pm

I'd be a sport and respond, but I feel I'd give too much away about the contest.

disneyfella · Post by **disneyfella** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 8:10 pm

poco · Post by **poco** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:23 pm

Please Luke, by all means, please tell us which movies you like!

poco · Post by **poco** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:25 pm

I like the parent trap, Princess Diaries, The Rookie, and Newsies!

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 12:11 pm

"I like any movie that the sherman brothers wrote songs for. they are a disney legacy in their own right.... "

Agreed! I think "Dakota" from "Original Family Band" should be ranked right up with Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma" ... just a bit further north! It should have been nominated (at LEAST)!

GoodLikeThat · Post by **GoodLikeThat** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 1:03 pm

Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Mary Poppins
Parent Trap
Princess Diaries
Annie
Blank Check
A Kid In King Arthur's Court
The Santa Clause
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

catNC · Post by **catNC** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 1:10 pm

my favorites are some of the old walt films..

1. Mary Poppins

2. Old Yeller
3. Pollyanna

disneyfella · Post by **disneyfella** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 12:30 am

Jerry said:

"Agreed! I think "Dakota" from "Original Family Band" should be ranked right up with Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma" ... just a bit further north! It should have been nominated (at LEAST)!"

Jerry, you're my new best friend. I LOVE The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band! Dakota is an awesome song. My favorite though has to be the "West o' the Wide Missouri" song. I think the whole election night sequence is just so much fun to watch. Seriously, though, Jerry you have excellent taste in movies and you have no idea how happy I am right now to know that not only has someone else heard of (or seen this movie) but that they like it as well. My hat's off to you

BasilOfBakerStreet427 · Wed Sep 17, 2003 4:06 pm

This order:

Tron
The Black Hole
The Honey,I Shrunk The Kids Trilogy
Pirates of The Carribbean
Swiss Family Robinson
Flight of the Navigator
Freaky Friday(1977)
Angels In The Outfield(1994)
The Rocketeer
(tie)The Three Musketeers(1993)
(tie)Freaky Friday(2003)
(tie)The Rookie(2002)

Disney Guru · Post by **Disney Guru** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:09 pm

It seems to me that we discuss the Disney Animated Classics all of the time on this website. But rarely do we discuss the Classic Disney Live Action Films. So I have decided to start this thread dedicated to the Classic Disney Live Action Films. You can talk about your favorite Classic Disney Live Action films here.

A few of my Personal Favorites are.

Bon Voyage: Even though this movie isn't very popular I always really liked it, Fred MacMurray and Jane Wyman were dynamite together. Also this movie was more Adult then most of the Disney films. It dealt with many adult concepts.

Another one of my favorites was Follow Me Boys: Fred MacMurray and Vera Miles were dynamite together. And this movie is still one of the most popular films ever made. Also Kurt Russell shined as Whitey.

Post by **Luke** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:37 pm

Great thread, idea, Guru!

There are the ones that everyone seems to love (films like Swiss Family Robinson, The Parent Trap, and of course Mary Poppins), and I definitely appreciate them a lot.

But from ones that get less attention and praise, I'd have to say the Dexter Riley Trilogy rocks. Goofy fun, very tongue-in-cheek and very inspired.

And nearly all the films of Dean Jones. What a comedic legend and likable leading man. The Ugly Dachshund, Snowball Express are two very good ones, and his presence helps make The Love Bug, Monkeys, Go Home!, and Blackbeard's Ghost a lot more entertaining than they might otherwise be. I'm really looking forward to seeing two more of his films for the first time this spring.

matthewgb · Post by **matthewgb** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:16 pm

In my Jontin Car, My Jontin Car, riding along in my Jontin car, ... Gnome Mobile and Darby O Gill have to be two of the best features released by Disney. The recent DVD release of Darby was particularly sweet as it contained the Disneyland episode I captured the King of the Leprechauns. Two thumbs also up for the Nutty Professor and The Shaggy Dog. I remeber begging my folks to rent these whenever we went to the video store.

TM2-Megatron · Post by **TM2-Megatron** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:16 pm

As a kid, I probably had more of Disney's live-actions on tape (mostly taped off of TV) than I had of their animated films, namely:

** - denotes a particular favourite of mine

1. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea **
2. Shaggy Dog, The
3. Swiss Family Robinson **
4. Absent-Minded Professor, The
5. Parent Trap, The
6. Three Lives of Thomasina, The **
7. Mary Poppins
8. That Darn Cat! (1965) **
9. Blackbeard's Ghost **
10. Love Bug, The **
11. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
12. Bedknobs and Broomsticks
13. Now You See Him, Now You Don't **
14. Escape to Witch Mountain **
15. Freaky Friday (1977)
16. Cat from Outer Space, The **
17. Tron
18. One Magic Christmas

Disney Guru · Post by **Disney Guru** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:21 pm

matthewgb wrote:In my Johnson Car, My Johnson Car, riding along in my Johnson car, ... Gnome Mobile and Darby O Gill have to be two of the best features released by Disney. The recent DVD release of Darby was particularly sweet as it contained the Disneyland episode I captured the King of the Leprechauns. Two thumbs also up for the Nutty Professor and The Shaggy Dog. I remeber begging my folks to rent these whenever we went to the video store.

One tip for you. It is in my Jontin Car, My Jontin, Car riding a long in my Jontin car,... Not, Johnson Car.

The Monkey's Uncle · Post by **The Monkey's Uncle** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 7:15 am

i love them all, but one scene that always stands out for me is the car fight scene from summer magic.........

"If you knew how stupid you looked pretending to be dumb"
" I am dumb"
"oh no your not!"
"I am so!"

Im a huge fan of all th ehayley mills films, as well as anything with tommy kirk!

gadgetmobile · Post by **gadgetmobile** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 8:51 am

I grew up with the Disney live action films of the 70s. I must confess that I loved ANYTHING with Kurt Russell in it. I had a crush on Jan Michael Vincent for years after seeing him in The World's Greatest Athlete. I also loved the Apple Dumpling Gang movies and the Herbie movies.

Although they were older, the Fred McMurray movies hold a special place in my heart. As a treat at the end of the school year, we often got to watch The Absent Minded Professor or Son of Flubber back in the good old days of film projectors and screens in schools. Follow Me Boys is an awesome movie, and I'm glad that it's on DVD now.

The live action movie that stands out the most in my mind and that gave me the most laughs, though, had to be Gus. Although they had minor roles in the movie, Bob Crane performed wonderfully as "The Pepperpot", and Johnny Unitas was the perfect sidekick. I still laugh at the scenes where the cheerleader flips across the field right through the bass drum and when Tim Conway and Tom Bosley chase Gus through the grocery store.

orestes. · Post by **orestes.** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:05 am

My favourite live action Disney movies are mostly popular ones. I grew up with these and yet I have none on DVD.

The Apple Dumpling Gang movies
The Love Bug movies
The Parent Trap (original)
Freaky Friday (original)
The Shaggy Dog movies
Blackbeard's Ghost

There may be a few others but I'll have to think which ones I'm missing.

Herbie has always been my all-time favourite though especially 'Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo'. Most people, in fact everyone I know doesn't list that one as their favourite but it is for me!

Wonderlicious · Post by **Wonderlicious** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:26 pm

I must say that I don't exactly dig the live action Disney movies as nearly as much as the animated classics, but some of the ones I've seen are great, especially the first three in my personal list of favourites...

Mary Poppins
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Return to Oz
Pollyanna
The Parent Trap (original and also remake which is a guilty pleasure)
Hocus Pocus
Song of the South
The Reluctant Dragon
101 Dalmatians

Yes, some of these aren't old, so they don't class as classic, but they're still good movies.

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