Author: Andrew Carrieri

DVD Cover Copyright Disney Based on the Aesop Fable “The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs,” The Million Dollar Duck was theatrically released on June 30, 1971. The live action comedy, which does not produce any cameos from Donald Duck or Scrooge McDuck, is eighty-nine minutes in length. Plot Summary Struggling to pay his bills,…

Image Copyright Disney Based on The Gordons’s 1963 novel Undercover Cat, That Darn Cat was theatrically released on December 2, 1965. The 116-minute live action mystery comedy inspired a 1997 remake of the same name. Plot Summary In an otherwise sleepy 1960s American town, a pair of bandits, Iggy (Frank Gorshin) and Dan (Neville Brand),…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney Based on Eric Hatch’s novel The Year of the Horse, The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit was theatrically released on December 20, 1968. The 113-minute live action flick, a combination comedy and drama, was preceded by the animated short “Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day,” which was repackaged as…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney Based on a novel by Joseph and Marrijane Hayes, Bon Voyage! was theatrically released on May 17, 1962. The live action flick is 130 minutes in length. Plot Summary In New York City, the Willard family of Terre Haute, Indiana prepares to embark on a cruise to France, a long-awaited adventure…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney A live action throwback to Disney’s animated package films of the 1940s, which amalgamated multiple short segments based around a common theme in lieu of a single plot-based story, The Misadventures of Merlin Jones was theatrically released on March 25, 1964. The 91-minute comedy was followed by a sequel, The Monkey’s…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney Following The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) and Now You See Him, Now You Don’t (1972), The Strongest Man in the World was theatrically released as the final installment of the “Medfield College trilogy” on February 6, 1975. The film, the fifth of six overall Disney flicks to take place at…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney The second installment of the “Medfield College trilogy,” following The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) and preceding The Strongest Man in the World (1975), Now You See Him, Now You Don’t was theatrically released on July 12, 1972. The film, the fourth of six overall Disney movies to be set at…

    DVD Cover Copyright Disney The first installment of the “Medfield College trilogy,” The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes was theatrically released on December 24, 1969. The film, the third of six Disney films to be set at the fictitious Medfield College, is 91 minutes in length. Now You See Him, Now You Don’t (1972)…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney A remake of Disney’s 1961 live action comedy The Absent-Minded Professor, Flubber was theatrically released on November 26, 1997. The 93-minute film, a box office success in spite of generally poor reviews, was the sixth and, to date, final Disney movie to be set at the fictitious Medfield College. A Remake…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney Based on Ian Cameron’s 1961 novel The Lost Ones, The Island at the Top of the World was theatrically released on December 20, 1974. The 93-minute flick, a commercial flop, was preceded by the short “Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too,” which was subsequently repackaged as the third segment in The…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney A sequel to Disney’s 1961 live action comedy The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber was theatrically released on January 16, 1963. The film is 100 minutes in length. Plot Summary On the gridiron, Medfield College is preparing to get destroyed by rival Rutland College, which has neither lost a game nor…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney A live action comedy with faux intellectual overtones, The Absent-Minded Professor was theatrically released on March 16, 1961. The 97-minute film inspired both a sequel, Son of Flubber (1963), and a remake, Flubber (1997). Plot Summary After one half of play, Medfield College’s basketball team trails its opponent from Rutland College…