Favorite Disney NON Animation classic

STRYPER · Post by **STRYPER** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:50 pm

Ok how about this for a list... what are your favorite movies from the Old Disney era that weren't animated?

You know like:
Absent Minded Professor
Swiss Family Robinsons
Davey Crockett
Herbie (all 4 of them)
Apple Dumpling Gang
Mary Poppins
Old Yeller
That Darn Cat

oldies... but goodies.

(please no mention of newer "Disney" movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean or Remember the Titans... I'm talking about the old stuff.)

actinglove299 · Post by **actinglove299** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:51 pm

The Happiest Millionare

Kairi · Post by **Kairi** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:01 pm

I love That Darn Cat! I've seen it about 12 times, and I never tire of it.
The Apple Dumpling Gang (and it's sequel) were hilarious!
Swiss Family Robinsons was a really fun adventure movie. I wish I could find it!
No Deposit, No Return is an oldie, and pretty funny. Huzzah for Don Knotts!
I love the Shaggy D.A.! That was a funny movie.
And, Mary Poppins. I love the songs, and I abosolutly adore Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins. She was brilliant in that role! $\:D/$ Dick van Dyke was also good in his role.
Pollyanna was a lovely movie!
Never a Dull Moment is a really funny movie. Dick van Dyke plays a struggling actor who gets mistaken for a gangster by other gangsters.

STRYPER · Post by **STRYPER** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:04 pm

I forgot about Never A Dull Moment

I have it on VHS buried in my bookcase somewhere. I'll have to dig that out and watch it now $\:D/$

Post by **Catspaw** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:17 pm

I love The Absent-Minded Professor! $\:D/$ I haven't watched it in a few years, but my family borrowed it a million times from my aunt. I should actually look to see if you can get it in DVD now. Good times!

I do have the Mary Poppins DVD that came out the other year - I love that movie! The songs are great, as is everything else. "Votes for women, step in time..." *starts humming*

JesusIsAlive · Post by **JesusIsAlive** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:35 pm

Okay, the list as follows:
Herbie (the movies about the little VW) - Very funny and far out movie!
The Absent-Minded Professor - Hilarious, far out, and included basketball! $\:D/$
The Shaggy Dog - Very funny movie!

Far out... (starting to notice a pattern?)
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang - Another far out movie, but funny nonetheless. Has Dick Van Dyke!!! $\:D/$
Apple Dumpling Gang - AWESOME! not as far out as the others, but get Don Knotts and Tim Conway together and you have a great movie!
No Deposit No return - One of the less well known ones. Very good movie!!! Again has Don Knotts! $\:D/$
That Darn Cat - Hilarious!

Movieman · Post by **Movieman** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:42 pm

"The Gnome-Mobile".

Does anyone remember that one? I'm the only one (that I know of) that does. It has the same two kids in it that were in Mary Poppins.

STRYPER · Post by **STRYPER** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:03 am

Hmm, technically Chitty Chitty Bang Bang wasn't a Disney film...

....but close enough $\:D/$ It's a classic anyway

JesusIsAlive · Post by **JesusIsAlive** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:03 am

STRYPER wrote:Hmm, technically Chitty Chitty Bang Bang wasn't a Disney film...

....but close enough $\:D/$ It's a classic anyway

I so thought it was...

Was it 20th Century Fox or MGM or what?

The Top Crusader · Post by **The Top Crusader** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:15 am

SON of Flubber!!!

Haha, no, its been so long since I've seen any of these, but I remember liking all the ones with Fred MacMurray or however you spell his name... was he in the Shaggy Dog ones, too?

Those were all pretty cool movies... the animated once have stuck around but you don't really hear much about the non-animated ones...

I BLAME STRYPER!!!!

JesusIsAlive · Post by **JesusIsAlive** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:18 am

The Top Crusader wrote:SON of Flubber!!!

Haha, no, its been so long since I've seen any of these, but I remember liking all the ones with Fred MacMurray or however you spell his name... was he in the Shaggy Dog ones, too?

Those were all pretty cool movies... the animated once have stuck around but you don't really hear much about the non-animated ones... I BLAME STRYPER!!!!

Yeah, MacMurray was in the "Shaggy Dog" but not in "The Shaggy D.A." That one had Dean Jones in it though! $\:D/$

The Top Crusader · Post by **The Top Crusader** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:24 am

Oh okay I thought so... $\:D/$

Laura Ingalls · Post by **Laura Ingalls** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:55 am

I love so many of those already mentioned...The Apple Dumpling and sequel, The Love Bug and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, No Deposit No Return, The Swiss Family Robinson, Pollyanna, The Absent Minded Professor and sequel, etc. etc. $\:D/$

STRYPER · Post by **STRYPER** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:43 am

JesusIsAlive wrote:
STRYPER wrote:Hmm, technically Chitty Chitty Bang Bang wasn't a Disney film...

....but close enough $\:D/$ It's a classic anyway
I so thought it was... Was it 20th Century Fox or MGM or what?

It was MGM. I'm trying to remember the history behind it. If I remember correctly, MGM wanted to respond to the highly successful musicals of Rogers and Hammerstein (i.e. Sound of Music, King and I etc...) so they wrote a script specifically for a proven musical star in Dick Van Dyke (since Dick had previously done Mary Poppins). If I remember, this was just at the beginning of Dick's alcohol problems so this was the last big movie he ever did. When he came back, he focused primarily on television.

JesusIsAlive wrote:Yeah, MacMurray was in the "Shaggy Dog" but not in "The Shaggy D.A." That one had Dean Jones in it though!

It was a sort of tag team

Fred did Disney Movies from '59 to '67 then Dean Jones took over as the star of Disney movies from '65 to '77.

Fred MacMurray
1959 Shaggy Dog
1961 Absent Minded Professor
1963 Son of Flubber
1966 Follow Me Boys
1967 Happiest Millionaire
...after that he left to do the show "My Three Sons".

Dean Jones
1965 That Darn Cat
1966 The Ugly Dachshund
1968 Blackbeard's Ghost
1968 Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
1968 Love Bug
1972 Snowball Express
1976 Shaggy DA
1977 Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

...then one could say Ken Berry "took over" with Herbie Rides again and Cat from Outer Space... but that's a bit of a stretch

JesusIsAlive · Post by **JesusIsAlive** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:43 pm

Yea yeah! "The Snowball Express" was HILARIOUS!!! $\:D/$

Epic · Post by **Epic** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:54 pm

Absent Minded Professor
Herbie (I've only seen 3 of them)
Old Yeller
The Apple Dumpling Gang (and it's sequel)
Swiss Family Robinsons
No Deposit, No Return
Mary Poppins
Pollyanna
Savage Sam
The Horse in a Gray Flannel Suit
Treasure Island

jasonjannajerryjohn · Post by **jasonjannajerryjohn** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:53 pm

Mary Poppins, there is no comparison with others. It is above par and sets the standard for all non-animated movies.

The Top Crusader · Post by **The Top Crusader** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:18 pm

But it was partially animated.

jasonjannajerryjohn · Post by **jasonjannajerryjohn** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:04 pm

The Top Crusader wrote:But it was partially animated.

It is still awsome! $\:D/$

Abigail · Post by **Abigail** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 3:50 pm

Mary Poppins, thats tops.
I also love, Old Yeller, Swiss Family Robinsons and Herbie. Oh and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (that was disney right?)