Subgenre Sampler
Family: 1843 Films to Buy & Rent
In Search of the Castaways (1962)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Hayley Mills, Maurice Chevalier, George Sanders…
- Excellent Disney adventure has Mills perilously search for her lost father across the far corners of the globe. Based on the Jules Verne novel, this…
Jack the Giant Killer (1962)
- Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. Kerwin Mathews, Judi Meredith, Torin Thatcher…
- From the same stable as Sinbad, comes another fantasy using wonderful stop–motion animation. Jack, against all odds, fights the evil Pendragon…
Jetsons, The (TV Series) (1962)
- Feat. George O'Hanlon, Penny Singleton, Janet Waldo…
- Meet George Jetson… 6 stories from the heyday of Hanna–Barbera’s family of the future. Two tapes. DVD version has all 24 episodes.
Top Cat (1962)
- The irrepressible TC and gang – Benny, Choo Choo, Fancy, and Brain – make mischief at the expense of Officer Dibble.…
101 Dalmatians (1961)
- This 17th Disney animated feature marked a departure from adapting traditional fairy tales. It liberated them to incorporate a jazzy soundtrack and…
Absent-Minded Professor, The (1961)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn…
- One of Disney's perenial comedies conserns absent–minded prof MacMurray and his invention – 'flubber', a gravity–defying substance,…
Babes in Toyland (1961)
- Dir. Jack Donohue
Feat. Ray Bolger, Annette Funicello, Ed Wynn
- The second version of Victor Herbert's operetta set in the fantasy world of 'Toyland' where the wedding plans of two young toys are interrupted by an…
Magnificent Rebel, The (1961)
- Dir. Georg Tressler
Feat. Karlheinz Bohm, Ivan Desny
- Unambitious but competent biopic of Ludwig van Beethoven, with Bohm (himself a classical pianist) convincingly ruffled in the lead. Worth a look for…
Mysterious Island (1961)
- Dir. Cy Endfield
Feat. Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan…
- Robust adventure yarn finds a group of Yankee soldiers escaping a Confederate jail using a hot air balloon during the American Civil War.
After…
Parent Trap (1961)
- Dir. David Swift
Feat. Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith…
- Breezy comedy in which Hayley Mills plays estranged twin sisters who meet at summer camp and conspire to bring together their divorced parents.