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. . . on the 2009 DVD release for THE RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN. About half a dozen major and minor cast members are interviewed, along with some of the key crew people, including director John Hough. Speaking of bonus features, many of the other menu items on this disc are actually ads disguised as useful information. Several of the folks interviewed on RETURN state that the actual feature movie features Christopher Lee's "Victor" character TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD. Surely every American with a public school education will note the irony here. Between these two RETURNs Disney MegaCorp snatched up the Muppets, Charles Dickens, STAR WARS, Victor Hugo, Pixar, the Marvel Universe, and countless other formerly independent Hallmarks of World Culture. Disney is spreading like THE BLOB in order to "monetize" every aspect of Classic Thought, to borrow the term of Bette Davis' "Letha" character in WITCH MOUNTAIN. As the corporate extremist jackals such as Disney team up to terrorize We True Blue Normal Patriotic 99 Per Center Silent Majority Loyal Union Label Americans, it's high time for us to save ourselves by calling a Constitutional Convention to REPEAL AND REPLACE that Racist Moldy Suicide Pact on Parchment from the 1700s, and adopt a new Magna Carta BANNING all corporations such as Disney in order to combat the encroachment into our lives of Lucifer's Interchangeable Three C's: Conservatism, Communism, and (corrupt, job-killing) Capitalism!

This fun and enjoyable retrospective documentary about the making of "Return from Witch Mountain" offers several nifty behind-the-scenes anecdotes from various cast and crew members. Director John Hough and associate producer Kevin Corcoran discuss the challenge of making a sequel to a hit movie that was of equal quality to the excellent original. Hough was instrumental in casting creepy character actor Anthony James as Sickle and praises Christopher Lee for walking a fine line between campy and serious as the main heavy. Special effects expert Danny Lee reveals how certain gags were done in the picture. Bette Davis did the film because it was something her grand children could see and had three people tending to her on the set. Character actor Jack Soo also receives props from the cast and crew for his deliciously dry and deadpan sense of humor. The kids who played the Earthquake Gang had a ball playing various practical jokes throughout the shoot. The movie was shot on various locations in downtown Los Angeles. Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann had a totally credible and appealing natural screen chemistry because of working together on the previous film. The kid actors especially enjoyed being hoisted in the air on wires for the flying scenes. The logistics of specific tricky stunts is also covered in compelling detail. Best of all, both Hough and Richards cheerfully rave about the pleasure of working with Alfred the Goat. Well worth seeing for fans of the movie.