Live Action Disney Movies 30 Years Old

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

84 min | Action, Adventure, Family

64 Metascore

When King Richard the Lionheart leaves England to lead a crusade to the Holy Land, his treacherous brother conspires to bring himself to power.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Richard Todd, Joan Rice, Peter Finch, James Hayter

Votes: 1,830 | Gross: $4.58M

Is number 2 as good as #1? It depends what you like, but for me no.

The Sword and the Rose

92 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

During 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.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough

Votes: 846

A movie with a title very similar to it's later animated film, but a different story premise.

Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue

81 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The wartime adventures of Scotish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor during the reign of King George I in the 18th century.

Director: Harold French | Stars: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough

Votes: 580

When it comes to live action films for Disney their success with them is very up and down. Many films not many people have heard of. Rob Roy is one of them.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

127 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

83 Metascore

A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre

Votes: 32,652 | Gross: $28.20M

Considered Disney's first major success with a live action film, although Treasure Island was good, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea rose the bar high, and showed a glimpse of potential for Disney and live action films.

Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier

93 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

American frontiersman Davy Crockett fights in the Creek Indian War, is elected to the U.S. Congress and fights for Texas at the Alamo.

Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Basil Ruysdael, Hans Conried

Votes: 4,081

The first of 2 Davy Crockett films, both not very flashy or remotely rememberable.

The Great Locomotive Chase

85 min | Action, Adventure, Family

During 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.

Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York, John Lupton

Votes: 1,181

Sounds action packed. A train chase isn't something seen often even in today's cinema.

Johnny Tremain

80 min | Adventure, Family, History

Johnny 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.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Hal Stalmaster, Luana Patten, Jeff York, Sebastian Cabot

Votes: 1,748

Possibly Disney's best live action since 20,000 Leagues. A patriotic film for patriotic people.

Old Yeller

83 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

84 Metascore

A 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.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk, Jeff York

Votes: 13,004 | Gross: $21.91M

One of my favorites, showing the bond between a boy and his dog, a common plot but I like it, even when I've seen the same premise before or after Old Yeller, but when it's made well it is effective.

The Light in the Forest

83 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A 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.

Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Fess Parker, Wendell Corey, Joanne Dru, James MacArthur

Votes: 595

I like the originality of Disney's films with live action. Not that the animated films aren't but, this is another unusual film.

Tonka

97 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The remarkable and ironical story of a wild colt that changes owners around the time of the Great Sioux War of 1876.

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Sal Mineo, Philip Carey, Jerome Courtland, H.M. Wynant

Votes: 440

No, not Tonka Joe from the kid toys and such. It's an indian, cool.

Darby O'Gill and the Little People

G | 93 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

80 Metascore

A 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.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Jimmy O'Dea

Votes: 7,817

Kidnapped

97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In 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.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee, John Laurie

Votes: 1,437

Babes in Toyland

106 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

55 Metascore

Mary 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.

Director: Jack Donohue | Stars: Ray Bolger, Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello, Ed Wynn

Votes: 4,015 | Gross: $10.22M

Moon Pilot

98 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Away 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.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Tom Tryon, Brian Keith, Edmond O'Brien, Dany Saval

Votes: 460

In Search of the Castaways

98 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

In 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.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Hayley Mills, Maurice Chevalier, George Sanders, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Votes: 3,067 | Gross: $21.75M

Son of Flubber

100 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Family

When Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets in trouble and only his students can help.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk

Votes: 2,917 | Gross: $22.13M

A different version of Flubber would later be made with Robin Williams. But wasn't that good.

Savage Sam

103 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Travis, Arliss, and Lisbeth are captured by Apaches while Old Yeller's son, Sam, tracks their trail.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Brian Keith, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Dewey Martin

Votes: 1,035 | Gross: $6.54M

The Incredible Journey

80 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

87 Metascore

The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?

Director: Fletcher Markle | Stars: Émile Genest, John Drainie, Tommy Tweed, Sandra Scott

Votes: 4,497

An early version of the 1996 film Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. Each of the animal stars got a makeover. In the 1996 film, Shadow is a Golden Retriever, Chance is an American Bulldog, and Sassy is a Himalayan. However, the story and the structure was similar.

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones

91 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Merlin 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.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 754

Emil and the Detectives

99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Emil 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.

Director: Peter Tewksbury | Stars: Walter Slezak, Bryan Russell, Roger Mobley, Heinz Schubert

Votes: 664

Those Calloways

131 min | Drama, Family

A 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.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Brandon De Wilde, Walter Brennan

Votes: 677

That Darn Cat!

116 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

71 Metascore

After 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.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall

Votes: 6,703 | Gross: $28.06M

The first film to star Disney legend, Dean Jones.

The Gnome-Mobile

84 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

In 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.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Walter Brennan, Matthew Garber, Karen Dotrice, Richard Deacon

Votes: 2,151

Starring the same two kids from Mary Poppins.

The Happiest Millionaire

141 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

Clever 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.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Tommy Steele, Greer Garson, Gladys Cooper

Votes: 2,056

Blackbeard's Ghost

106 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

71 Metascore

On the Carolina coast, Godolphin College's new track coach lodges at Blackbeard's Inn, run by the Daughters of the Buccaneers, who claim to be descendants of the notorious pirate, and who risk losing their hotel to the local mobster.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 5,804 | Gross: $10.90M

The Love Bug

108 min | Comedy, Family, Sport

48 Metascore

Down-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.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson, Buddy Hackett

Votes: 15,494 | Gross: $5.09M

The first of five films in the successful Herbie franchise, one of Disney's early franchises.

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

91 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

54 Metascore

At Medfield College, an accident with a donated computer gives Dexter Riley the ability to remember any knowledge learned instantly and perfectly.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, William Schallert

Votes: 5,086 | Gross: $0.73M

Starring a very young Kurt Russell, and is the first of a series of Disney films starring Kurt Russell.

The Boatniks

99 min | Comedy, Family

Newly 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.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers, Phil Silvers, Norman Fell

Votes: 764 | Gross: $18.61M

Scandalous John

113 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A 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.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Brian Keith, Alfonso Arau, Michele Carey, Rick Lenz

Votes: 134 | Gross: $0.03M

The Million Dollar Duck

89 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

45 Metascore

Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a pet for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Dean Jones, Sandy Duncan, Joe Flynn, Tony Roberts

Votes: 2,279 | Gross: $11.12M

Not the greatest film by Disney, according to Gene Siskel, it was so bad he walked out of the theater. Ouch.

Snowball Express

93 min | Comedy, Family

When 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.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Dean Jones, Nancy Olson, Harry Morgan, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 1,736

Charley and the Angel

93 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Charley 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.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Cloris Leachman, Harry Morgan, Kurt Russell

Votes: 547

One Little Indian

90 min | Comedy, Family, Western

On the run from the Cavalry, a man tries to disappear while accompanied by two camels and a runaway boy. His escape is made harder when he meets a widow and her daughter who may turn him in.

Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: James Garner, Vera Miles, Pat Hingle, Morgan Woodward

Votes: 622

Superdad

96 min | Comedy, Family

Father tries to help his daughter meet better friends, only to find his meddling backfires. And finds out that his daughters friends are the best thing for her.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Bob Crane, Kurt Russell, Barbara Rush, Joe Flynn

Votes: 754 | Gross: $0.24M

Escape to Witch Mountain

97 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

60 Metascore

Two mysterious orphan children have extraordinary powers and are chased by a scheming millionaire. But where do these kids really call home?

Director: John Hough | Stars: Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Kim Richards

Votes: 10,042 | Gross: $20.00M

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A suspected Western spy steals a secret microfilm from China and hides it in the skeleton of a museum dinosaur, prompting a frantic search for it by various interested parties.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Derek Nimmo, Hugh Burden

Votes: 1,761

No Deposit No Return

112 min | Comedy, Family

During 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.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: David Niven, Darren McGavin, Don Knotts, Herschel Bernardi

Votes: 1,496

Gus

96 min | Comedy, Family, Sport

52 Metascore

The 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.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Ed Asner, Don Knotts, Gary Grimes, Tim Conway

Votes: 1,853

Freaky Friday

95 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

51 Metascore

A mother and daughter find their personalities switched and have to live each other's lives on one strange Friday.

Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Barbara Harris, Jodie Foster, John Astin, Patsy Kelly

Votes: 12,598 | Gross: $25.94M

Another later version starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis would be released.

A Tale of Two Critters

48 min | Adventure, Family

A bear cub and a raccoon become fast friends when they're swept away down a river, away from their families.

Director: Jack Speirs | Star: Mayf Nutter

Votes: 185

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

38 Metascore

Herbie, 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 cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Dean Jones, Don Knotts, Julie Sommars, Jacques Marin

Votes: 7,276

Candleshoe

101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

68 Metascore

Welcome 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.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes, Leo McKern

Votes: 4,258

Live Action Disney Movies 30 Years Old

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