Movies: Disney Erstwhile
Live-action films from the era of "Walt Disney Productions" as released by Buena Vista Distribution Co. Inc.
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- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsKurt RussellJoe FlynnHarry MorganA mailroom clerk and a chimp team up to pick hit TV shows.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsBrian KeithAlfonso ArauMichele CareyA crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsKurt RussellCesar RomeroJoe FlynnAt Medfield College, an accident with a donated computer gives Dexter Riley the ability to remember any knowledge learned instantly and perfectly.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsKurt RussellCesar RomeroJoe FlynnA chemistry student invents a spray that makes its wearer invisible. A crook finds out about it, and plans to steal it for himself.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsGlenn CorbettAlfred BurkeKurt RussellWalt Disney's 3-part made-for-TV feature, The Secret of Boyne Castle (1969), originally shown on "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" (the new title for "Disneyland"), re-edited into feature film form for European theatrical release.
- DirectorRobert ButlerStarsJim DaleDarren McGavinKaren ValentineThis saga of the old west involves twin brothers who compete for possession of a rickety cow town founded by their father while a crooked Mayor tries to put an end to the competitors so he can inherit the town himself.
- DirectorWard KimballStarsKurt RussellSpencer QuinnJesse WhiteA live-action short, using many avant-garde film techniques, that looks at American car culture in the late 1960s. The main section deals with the many trials and obstacles a teenager must face on the path to being able to drive. Surviving the driver's education class is only the first step, as the teenager must then pass his driving test, and then finally get permission to borrow the family car.
- DirectorLarry LansburghStarsRick NatoliJudson PrattAngel Tompkins
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsPeter FinchJames MacArthurBernard LeeIn Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
- DirectorJames NeilsonStarsTom TryonBrian KeithEdmond O'BrienAway on a short leave before an upcoming moon launch, a NASA astronaut disappears and is feared kidnapped when the security services learn about his friendship with a suspected foreign female spy.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsDean JonesNancy OlsonHarry MorganWhen John Baxter inherits a ski resort in the Rocky Mountains, he quits his job in New York and moves west to run it--only to find his "estate" in a state of total dilapidation.
- DirectorJames NeilsonStarsRoddy McDowallSuzanne PleshetteKarl MaldenA young man from Boston heads west to join the California gold rush with the hopes of restoring his family fortune, but his dedicated butler sets out to find him and bring him home.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsRobert MorseStefanie PowersPhil SilversNewly assigned to duty in the coast guard at Newport Beach, a young ensign finds himself involved in romantic complications, as well as with jewel thieves, whose antics contribute to moments of hysteria and hilarity.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsDean JonesDiane BakerLloyd BochnerFrederick Bolton has to solve two problems. First, his boss has instructed him to come up with a reasonable campaign to promote a new product, a stomach pill named "Aspercel" - by tomorrow. The second problem is Fred's daughter, Helen. She is absolutely fond of horses, takes riding classes and has already had decent success in some competitions. Her biggest wish is to own a horse herself, a dream her father cannot afford at all. Now Fred tries to solve both problems at once by simply combining them: A horse named "Aspercel", ridden by his daughter should bring the name of the pill into the papers and make Helen happy, too. But there's still one more obstacle: Helen and Aspercel of course have to win a few jumping competitions to make this idea work.
- DirectorJames NeilsonStarsHayley MillsEli WallachPola NegriA teenager encounters romance, intrigue and a search for stolen jewels during her visit to the island of Crete.
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsPatrick McGoohanSusan HampshireLaurence NaismithThomasina the cat brings a family together, through her mysterious death and reappearance.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsFred MacMurrayCloris LeachmanHarry MorganCharley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsFred MacMurrayTommy SteeleGreer GarsonClever yet hapless new butler John Lawless manages a Philadelphia household for quirky and joyful millionaire Anthony Drexel Biddle, his unflappable wife, Cordelia, and their spitfire daughter, Cordy.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsFred MacMurrayVera MilesLillian GishA man settles down in a small town and becomes the scoutmaster.
- DirectorJames NeilsonStarsFred MacMurrayJane WymanMichael CallanA family takes a long delayed trip to Europe and finds an unending series of comedy adventures.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsFred MacMurrayNancy OlsonKeenan WynnA college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsFred MacMurrayNancy OlsonKeenan WynnWhen Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets in trouble and only his students can help.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsFred MacMurrayJean HagenTommy KirkA teenage boy is cursed with periodically turning into a sheepdog.
- DirectorJerry ParisStarsDick Van DykeEdward G. RobinsonDorothy ProvineActor Jack Albany, who plays gangsters on TV, is mistaken for notorious hit-man Ace, and is hired by mob boss Leo Smooth to pull a heist, but Jack must find a way out of it.
- DirectorByron PaulStarsDick Van DykeNancy KwanAkim TamiroffA Navy pilot is marooned on an island with a headhunter's daughter and outcast tribal women.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsDean JonesSuzanne PleshetteTim ConwayWilby Daniels, now all grown up and running for district attorney, finds himself once again turning into a shaggy dog at inopportune moments.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsBrian KeithVera MilesBrandon De WildeA strong-willed family in a small New England town struggles against tremendous odds to realize their dream of establishing a sanctuary for the great flocks of wild geese that migrate overhead.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsPeter UstinovDean JonesSuzanne PleshetteAn unassuming track coach accidentally invokes the spirit of a notorious pirate long believed dead, and who must now team up to lay the pirate to rest, and save a local hotel from a mobster.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsDean JonesSandy DuncanJoe FlynnProfessor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a pet for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsDean JonesMichele LeeDavid TomlinsonDown-on-his-luck race car driver Jim Douglas teams up with a little VW Bug that has a mind of it's own, not realizing Herbie's worth until a sneaky rival plots to steal him.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsHelen HayesKen BerryStefanie PowersThe living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsDean JonesDon KnottsJulie SommarsHerbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. Unbeknownst to Herbie's driver, thieves have hidden a stolen diamond in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get it back.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsCharles Martin SmithStephen W. BurnsCloris LeachmanThe adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsBill BixbySusan ClarkDon KnottsThree orphan children strike gold in 1878 California.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsTim ConwayDon KnottsTim MathesonThe adventures of two idiotic outlaw wannabees, Amos and Theodore.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsEdward AsnerDon KnottsGary GrimesThe inept 'California Atoms,' floundering in the cellar of the National Football League, welcome the team's newest member - a mule capable of place kicking a football 100 yards with deadly accuracy.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsDavid NivenDarren McGavinDon KnottsDuring school-break, two kids are to stay with their rich Grandpa but they would rather join their mother overseas, so, in need of plane-ticket cash, they convince two petty-criminals to fake-kidnap them for a ransom they could all share.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsWalter PidgeonGilles PayantÉmile GenestA wealthy sportsman's decision to hire a backwoods orphan to exercise a champion Irish Setter has unexpected consequences.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsBrian KeithTommy KirkKevin CorcoranTravis, Arliss, and Lisbeth are captured by Apaches while Old Yeller's son, Sam, tracks their trail.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsBrian KeithVera MilesPamela FranklinA tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surrounding woods. This throws the town into a panic and everyone wants the animal killed immediately, except for the daughter of the sheriff. She wants to capture the tiger and put it in a zoo, thereby saving the tiger's life. Her determination starts a nationwide campaign among children to raise the money to buy the tiger from the circus, but first, she, her father and an Indian tiger trainer must find the tiger before the National Guard do, who have orders to kill it on sight.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsDean JonesSuzanne PleshetteCharles RugglesThe Garrisons live with a Great Dane who thinks he's a dainty dachshund. His identity crisis results in an uproarious series of household crises that reduce the Garrisons' house to shambles.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsSteve ForrestBill MumyPamela TollA young boy's summer vacation is brightened by a special friend, a young raccoon whom he names "Rascal".
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsJodie FosterDavid NivenHelen HayesWelcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey and a sly con man are determined to find.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsKen BerrySandy DuncanHarry MorganThree scientists help an Alien feline, stranded on Earth, to repair its damaged spacecraft in order to return home but their efforts are hampered by inept army officials and foreign spies.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsJenny AgutterBarry NewmanKathleen NolanA woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal training she successfully teaches one boy.
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsDonald CrispLaurence NaismithAlex MackenzieThe remarkable veritable story of a terrier named Bobby and the enduring friendship he forges with a tenderhearted shepherd known simply as Old Jock---unbroken even by the kindly old man's death.
- DirectorPeter TewksburyStarsWalter SlezakBryan RussellRoger MobleyEmil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
- DirectorBruce BilsonStarsEdward HerrmannBarbara HarrisSusan ClarkA new preacher in town joins forces with an unlikely group of crimefighters: six dedicated church ladies who are ready, but not necessarily equipped--to help.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsHayley MillsDean JonesDorothy ProvineAfter a kidnapped bank teller uses a neighbor's wandering cat to send an S.O.S., the F.B.I. assigns a cat-allergic Agent to the case.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsEarl HollimanPat CrowleyLew AyresIn this touching adventure, a remake of the popular 1940 film, two Georgia young boys team up and befriend a feral bird dog, whom they train to participate in a field trials.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsRobert FoxworthJoan HackettPeter UstinovIn 1869 Kentucky, a young boy and his friends set out to find a treasure chest hidden by his late father in the Florida Everglades during the Civil War.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsJames GarnerVera MilesRobert CulpA Texas cowboy is rescued at sea by a 12-year-old boy. While he waits to return home, he decides to help out his rescuer's family.
- DirectorSteve PrevinStarsVincent WinterSean ScullyPeter WeckSupported avidly by his mother and more reluctantly at first by his father, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Choirboys, where he proves to be unusually talented. The standard initiation ordeals which new boys must endure at the hands of their seniors are intensified in his case because he has aroused the jealousy of Peter, the head chorister, by singing a solo which Peter had long sung himself. The fact is that Peter's voice is breaking, and with a broken voice often comes a broken heart. But, encouraged by the director and all the boys, Peter begins to develop in a new role as composer and conductor.
- DirectorBernard McEveetyStarsPatrick WayneChief Dan GeorgeAndrew DugganA man seeking peace and quiet finds himself father to three bears.
- DirectorDavid SwiftStarsHayley MillsMaureen O'HaraBrian KeithTeenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.
- DirectorDavid SwiftStarsJane WymanHayley MillsRichard EganA young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.
- DirectorKen AnnakinStarsJohn MillsDorothy McGuireJames MacArthurA Swiss family must survive being shipwrecked on a deserted island.
- DirectorJames NeilsonStarsHayley MillsDorothy McGuireBurl IvesA Bostonian widow moves with her kids to the country.
- DirectorGary NelsonStarsBarbara HarrisJodie FosterJohn AstinA mother and daughter find their personalities switched and have to live each other's lives on one strange Friday.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsDavid HartmanDonald SindenJacques MarinIn 1907, four explorers discover a lost colony of Vikings in the Arctic.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsHayley MillsMaurice ChevalierGeorge SandersIn 19th century England, young Mary Grant and her brother, Robert, embark on a dangerous quest to find their missing father, a sea captain who vanished somewhere along the Chilean coast.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsDorothy McGuireFess ParkerTommy KirkA teenage boy grows to love a stray yellow dog while helping his mother and younger brother run their Texas homestead while their father is away on a cattle drive. First thought to be good-for-nothing mutt, Old Yeller is soon beloved by all.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsWalter BrennanMatthew GarberKaren DotriceIn the Redwood Forests of California, a multi-millionaire lumberman and his two young grandchildren encounter two gnomes who are supposedly the last of their kind.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsAlbert SharpeJanet MunroSean ConneryA wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.
- DirectorMichael O'HerlihyStarsWalter BrennanBuddy EbsenLesley Ann WarrenThe eleven members of the Bower family move to Dakota Territory.
- DirectorVincent McEveetyStarsKurt RussellJoe FlynnEve ArdenDexter Riley and his friends accidently discover a new chemical mixed with a cereal seems to give anyone temporary superhuman strength
- DirectorRobert TottenStarsSteve ForrestVera MilesRon HowardA family leaves city life to take possession of a Wyoming ranch.
- 1954–19971h 25mUnrated7.7 (62)TV EpisodeDirectorJames NeilsonStarsOscar HomolkaKevin CorcoranRobert EmhardtA young boy discovers the existence of a group called the Mooncussers - a gang of pirates that work at night and sends out false homing signals to ships at sea; the ships then crash on the shore, where they are looted by the gang.
- 1954–19972h 9mUnrated8.1 (713)TV EpisodeDirectorJames NeilsonStarsPatrick McGoohanGeorge ColeTony BrittonThe adventures of a disguised vicar who fights for justice in 18th-century England.
- 1954–19971hUnrated7.7 (51)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert ButlerStarsGlenn CorbettAlfred BurkeKurt RussellA young American studying in Ireland, Rich Evans, becomes involved with Russian agents and a defecting scientist, after he hears a warning from a dying man.
- 1954–19971hUnrated6.0 (15)TV EpisodeDirectorJack SheaStarsParley BaerJimmy BrackenPatrick CreamerA school teacher thinks he saw sea monster in the calm waters of Strawberry Cove. Three kids then build one in defense of their teacher and set out to find what's behind the mystery.
- DirectorRobert TottenStarsClu GulagerMariette HartleyJohnny WhitakerTwo brothers and a stray dog stumble upon some jewel thieves in a lighthouse.
- 1954–19971hUnrated7.7 (24)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert TottenStarsClu GulagerMariette HartleyJohnny WhitakerTwo bored kids in a vacation town get involved with thieves when they try to make their own horror movie. They find a stray dog, who brings them a stolen necklace, which they use in their movie.
- DirectorJames NeilsonStarsPatrick McGoohanGeorge ColeTony BrittonIn eighteenth century England, the mysterious masked rider known as the Scarecrow (Patrick McGoohan) leads a rebel band to save the town of Romney Marsh from King George III's (Eric Pohlmann's) oppression and Naval press gangs.
- DirectorAndrew V. McLaglenStarsMaurice ChevalierDean JonesYvette MimieuxA young American inherits an olive farm in France and decides to use four chimpanzees to harvest the fruit when he finds the price of the local labor to be too costly.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsTommy KirkAnnette FunicelloLeon AmesA student is able to save Midvale College's football reputation using his radical invention.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsTommy KirkAnnette FunicelloLeon AmesMerlin Jones, resident genius at Midvale College, inadvertently gets into a string of scrapes, both in college and with the law-much to the distress of his long-suffering girlfriend and the local district judge.
- DirectorJack DonohueStarsRay BolgerTommy SandsAnnette FunicelloMary Contrary is set to marry Tom Piper when he is kidnapped by Roderigo and Gonzorgo, two goons working for the evil Barnaby who wants to marry Mary for her inheritance.
- 1954–19971hUnrated7.3 (27)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert L. FriendStarsJames DalyRoger MobleyNehemiah PersoffYoung David Jones travels to Italy during his vacation to work with his uncle, Max, an archaeologist who raises ancient artifacts from the ocean floor.
- DirectorNorman FosterStarsFess ParkerBuddy EbsenBasil RuysdaelAmerican frontiersman Davy Crockett fights in the Creek Indian War, is elected to the U.S. Congress and fights for Texas at the Alamo.
- DirectorNorman FosterStarsFess ParkerBuddy EbsenJeff YorkDavy and his friends leave for New Orleans to sell some fur pelts.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsHal StalmasterLuana PattenJeff YorkJohnny Tremain is drawn into the Revolutionary War, and becomes a patriot fighting to free the colonies from England. Along the way he learns about life and about himself.
- DirectorFrancis D. LyonStarsFess ParkerJeffrey HunterJeff YorkDuring the Civil War Union spy Andrews and his men volunteer to steal a Confederate train and drive it to Union territory while destroying the Confederate railway system along the way.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsFess ParkerWendell CoreyJoanne DruA young white man who spent his whole life raised by Native Americans is sent to live with his birth family and must learn to fit in with people he was taught to hate.
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsSal MineoPhilip CareyJerome CourtlandThe remarkable and ironical story of a wild colt that changes owners around the time of the Great Sioux War of 1876.
- DirectorKen AnnakinStarsMichael RennieJames MacArthurJanet MunroA boy attempts to realize his father's dream of climbing an alpine peak known as the Citadel.
- 1954–19971h 29mUnrated6.2 (269)TV EpisodeDirectorNorman TokarStarsJack CarsonRobert CulpPatricia BarryTwo brothers adopt an injured seal on their vacation and decide to bring it home.
- DirectorKen AnnakinStarsRichard ToddGlynis JohnsJames Robertson JusticeDuring the reign of Henry VIII, Mary Tudor seeks to flee a forced marriage with the French king by escaping to America with her true love, but her plans are not so easily executed.
- DirectorHarold FrenchStarsRichard ToddGlynis JohnsJames Robertson JusticeThe wartime adventures of Scotish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor during the reign of King George I in the 18th century.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsBrian KeithJohn BealJames DruryMajor John Wesley Powell leads an expedition through the Grand Canyon to chart the Colorado River.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsKevin CorcoranHenry CalvinGene SheldonTaken in by distant members of his family after being orphaned, Toby Tyler runs away to join the circus.
- DirectorKen AnnakinStarsRichard ToddJoan RicePeter FinchWhen King Richard the Lionheart leaves England to lead a crusade to the Holy Land, his treacherous brother conspires to bring himself to power.
- DirectorByron HaskinStarsBobby DriscollRobert NewtonBasil SydneyThe treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver.
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsKirk DouglasJames MasonPaul LukasA ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
- DirectorFletcher MarkleStarsÉmile GenestJohn DrainieTommy TweedTwo dogs and a cat set off on a treacherous 200-mile journey towards home.
- DirectorMichael O'HerlihyStarsGlenn FordNancy OlsonDean JaggerAn Indian boy flees when he is accused of murder.
- DirectorMichael O'HerlihyStarsPeter McEnerySusan HampshireTom AdamsAfter inheriting his father's title, the young noble, Hugh O'Connell, is taken hostage by the English viceroy but escapes to lead an uprising.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsFess ParkerKathleen CrowleyJeff YorkThe adventures of a group of pioneers as their wagon train crosses the West.
- DirectorRoberto GavaldónStarsPedro ArmendárizJoseph CalleiaRodolfo AcostaLittle Pablito is the 10-year-old son of a cruel horse trainer who's responsible for training a Mexican general's horse to jump for the grand race. The trainer's methods cause the horse to become afraid of jumping and the general orders the animal's death. Pablito runs away with the horse, becoming a fugitive. He travels throughout Mexico encountering several fugitives and a priest who tries to help.
- DirectorHarold D. SchusterHamilton LuskeStarsBurl IvesBeulah BondiBobby DriscollThis heartwarming classic tells the tale of a country boy who adopts a mischevious black lamb and learns valuable lessons about love and dedication.