Movie Description One Of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing is a 1975 comedy from Walt Disney Productions. The film title is a take-off on the 1942 British film, One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing, a war-time film considered one of the classics of the era. A group of British nannies collaborate with Scotland Yard in an [...]
The Boy Who Talked to Badgers (1975)
Movie Description First telecast as a two-part segment on The Wonderful World of Disney in 1975, The Boy Who Talked To Badgers is an animal adventure filmed entirely in Alberta, Canada. Benjy (Christian Juttner) is a young Canadian boy who prefers the company of animals rather than humans, and tries to spend as much time [...]
Ride a Wild Pony (1975)
Movie Description The 1975 Walt Disney Productions release, Ride a Wild Pony, is an adaptation of the James Aldridge novel, A Sporting Proposition. Directed by Jerome Courtland, Ride a Wild Pony was filmed in Australia. Set between the two World Wars, Ride a Wild Pony relates the story of a legal battle between a poor [...]
Herbie Rides Again (1974)
Movie Description Business developers have been known to exercise some pretty fierce tactics to pull off big development deals, and Alonzo Hawk was one determined developer, ready to make a deal. However, not even the fiercest crooks can’t hold a candle to a scorned Herbie when he’s protecting a friend. Can Herbie fight off the [...]
The Bears and I (1974)
Movie Description Adapted from the wonderful same-titled book by Robert Franklin Leslie, the 1974 Walt Disney Studios production of The Bears And I stars Patrick Wayne as a Vietnam veteran who, upon discharge, heads off to Canada to “rough it.” Soon after, he adopts three bear cubs whose mother has been killed by hunters. As [...]
The Castaway Cowboy (1974)
Movie Description 1850s San Francisco is the opening setting for the 1974 Disney production, The Castaway Cowboy. James Garner stars as Lincoln Costain, a Texas cowboy visiting California when he finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time and winds up being shanghaied, destination unknown. Costain uses his considerable wits to escape and [...]
The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
Movie Description A combination drama/adventure/science fiction/period piece could be the description for the 1974 Disney production, The Island at the Top Of the World. Produced and directed by (respectively) Disney veterans Winston Hibler and Robert Stevenson, the film chronicles the efforts of a British aristocrat’s expedition to the Arctic to try and locate his missing [...]
Robin Hood (1973)
Movie Description The story of the legendary Robin Hood and his mission to help the poor comes to life in cartoon form with some lovable forest friends in Disney’s Robin Hood movie. Sherwood Forest buzzes with activity as Robin the fox and Little John the bear battle the evil sheriff and Prince John with Sir [...]
Superdad (1973)
Movie Description Disney was a little late in addressing the “generation gap” and Vietnam-era issues of the late 1960s, and apparently the 1973 comedy, Superdad, was the studio’s way of “getting in the game.” Starring Bob Crane (Hogan’s Heroes) as a father whose vehement disapproval of his daughter’s (Kathleen Cody) boyfriend (Kurt Russell) leads to [...]
Mustang (1973)
Movie Description Co-directed by Roy Disney (Walt’s brother) and Frank Zuniga, the 1973 drama, Mustang!, originally ran on the Sunday night television classic series, The Wonderful World of Disney. Pechudo is a magnificent jet-black stallion who epitomizes the adjective, “freedom.” Running wild in Mexico, Pechudo and his running mates are constantly being sought out and [...]
