Live Action Disney Movies 30 Years Old
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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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