Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Family > Classics: 137 Films to Rent
- Looney Tunes (TV Series) (Bugs Bunny) (1946-1969)
- 56 Restored shorts from the Warner Bros classic (violent) cartoon vault. Appearing are Sylvester, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety, Daffy Duck, Road…
- Yearling, The (1946)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Claude Jr. Jarman, Jane Wyman, Gregory Peck
- Delightfully quaint fable of childhood, has innocent lad Claude Jarman Jnr raising a pet deer in backwoods Florida, while Ma and Pa, scrape together…
- My Friend Flicka (1945)
- Dir. Harold Schuster
Feat. Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson
- Rancher lad Roddy McDowall is finally allowed a horse of his own, but chooses a wild, unmanageable colt, whose trust he only slowly, and painfully,…
- Wonder Man (1945)
- Dir. Bruce Humberstone
Feat. Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen…
- A typically zany fairy–tale for Danny Kaye, as a mild–mannered student persuaded by the ghost of his dead twin to seek out his murderer.…
- National Velvet (1944)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney
- Ever–exciting family classic, with 12 year–old budding equestrian Elizabeth Taylor, taking her horse Velvet all the way to the Grand…
- Dr Seuss (TV Series) (1942-1994)
- Dir. Various
- The classic children's books in their animated television versions.
On tape and disc: "Best of..." containing three Dr Seuss tales – ‘Horton…
- Jungle Book (1942)
- Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. Sabu
- Live–action version of Rudyard Kipling's novel with Sabu as Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves who attempts to adapt to human custom.
- Woody Woodpecker and Friends (1941)
- Classic cartoons from the Walter Lantz archive, featuring the iconic woodpecker and stablemates Chilly Willy, Andy Panda, Swing Symphonies and Oswald…
- Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
- Dir. Norman Taurog
Feat. Judy Garland, George Murphy
- Filmed version of the hit Broadway musical comedy from 1922 about Irish–American immigrants starring Judy Garland, who was fresh to…
- Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, Tim Whelan
Feat. Sabu, Conrad Veidt, June Duprez
- Sabu stars in this magical, intoxicating vision of the Arabian Nights, some twenty years before the genre was revived in SINBAD. Romance, tragedy,…