# Forgotten Disney Live-Action Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888 "2005-01-03T20:55:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/21 "2005-01-03T23:15:06Z")
There was a movie made in the early to mid nineties called Blank Check about a boy that cashes a million dollar check that a mobster had given to him blank. Pretty pedestrian kid’s movie but it had Karen Duffy in it, who I still have a huge crush on eight to ten years later. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2005, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/22 "2005-01-03T23:36:41Z")
**The Moonspinners** with Hayley Mills. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2005, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/23 "2005-01-03T23:57:54Z")
I can remember a lot of these, now that you’re all reminding me–I had completely forgotten about the Fred MacMurray flubber movies, as well as _Never a Dull Moment_ and _Lieutenant Robin Crusoe_. I did manage to recall _The Monkey’s Uncle_, another story set at a college that involved a chimp, a college student, a human-powered flying machine, and Annette Funicello. And thinking about Fred MacMurray, wasn’t there one about him as the head of a kids’ camp? _Follow Me Boys_, or something like that? Gah, how do I remember these things? ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/24 "2005-01-04T01:03:36Z")
Those Dexter Riley ones, I loved them. Channel 20 in DC used to show them on weekend afternoons a lot. _The Billion Dollar Hobo,_ that one I saw in the theater back when it was a rare treat to be taken to the movies. Was _Candleshoe_ (starring a very young Jodie Foster) a Disney picture? I still have the novelization of _Cat from Outer Space!_ There was one stupid one whose name I’ve forgotten, with Gary Coleman living in a railroad car at Grand Central Station or some such place, and he was supposed to be so lovable and cute that everyone just fell in love with him. (cue gag reflex) ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/25 "2005-01-04T01:10:33Z")
One of my favorite live action Disney movies when I was growing up was _Pete’s Dragon_. > **[Pete's Dragon (1977) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076538/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9cGV0ZSdzIGRyYWdvbnxodG1sPTF8bm09b24_%3Bfc=1%3Bft=2)** > > Pete's Dragon: Directed by Don Chaffey, Don Bluth. With Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney, Red Buttons. An orphan boy and his magical dragon come to town with his abusive adoptive parents in pursuit. (Can’t seem to make the vB tags work today.) ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/26 "2005-01-04T01:18:10Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > I remember them. I saw _The Living Desert_ in the hallway of the UN hostpital in the Congo in 1962, where the staff showed it for my father. I didn’t know that was the origin of the footage - do you know which nature movies went with which animated ones? I loved those movies. No idea, and it’s been so long since I’ve seen any of them, I can’t even remember the names of the nature films. I do know that in a couple of the nature films, it’s brazenly obvious which animated movies they were for as the shots are identical. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/27 "2005-01-04T01:42:56Z")
You want forgotten? How about a Disney film so obscure that _Disney’s own representative_ didn’t know about it only three years after it was released? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you [**Condorman**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082199/). It was adapted (badly) from a pretty good Robert Sheckley novel, and starred Michael Crawford (later to be famous as the Phantom of the Opera in the musical), Oliver Reed, and Barbara Carrera. I saw it as a special sneak preview, but I don’t know if it was ever released officially. There was also Disney’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s **[Something Wicked This Way Comes.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086336/)** ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/28 "2005-01-04T01:57:50Z")
Had to chime in again with a couple more… well I guess you couldn’t call **The Love Bug** forgotten, but if you had asked the 5 year old me what the best movie ever was, the answer would have been [The Boatniks](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065482/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9Ym9hdG5pa3N8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=3) ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/29 "2005-01-04T02:00:55Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > And thinking about Fred MacMurray, wasn’t there one about him as the head of a kids’ camp? _Follow Me Boys_, or something like that? Yes, and it was actually fairly decent. It was more or less remade as **Mr. Holland’s Opus**. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/30 "2005-01-04T02:04:17Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > You want forgotten? How about a Disney film so obscure that _Disney’s own representative_ didn’t know about it only three years after it was released? > > Ladies and gentlemen, I give you [**Condorman**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082199/). > > It was adapted (badly) from a pretty good Robert Sheckley novel, and starred Michael Crawford (later to be famous as the Phantom of the Opera in the musical), Oliver Reed, and Barbara Carrera. I saw it as a special sneak preview, but I don’t know if it was ever released officially. Yeah, I remember seeing previews for it, and a friend of mine saw it in the theaters when it came out. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/31 "2005-01-04T02:09:33Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > There was one stupid one whose name I’ve forgotten, with Gary Coleman living in a railroad car at Grand Central Station or some such place, and he was supposed to be so lovable and cute that everyone just fell in love with him. (cue gag reflex) [On the Right Track](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082849/). It was a 20th Century Fox movie, not a Disney production. Sadly, apparently not available in any format whatsoever. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/32 "2005-01-04T02:12:38Z")
_The Ugly Dachshund_, 1966, starring Dean Jones and an astonishingly young Suzanne Pleshette. The one about the Great Dane who was raised with a litter of dachshunds and doesn’t realize how big he is. Aside from all the lighthearted comedies, didn’t Disney put out several musicals in the late '50s and early '60s? ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/33 "2005-01-04T02:22:41Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > Was _Candleshoe_ (starring a very young Jodie Foster) a Disney picture? Yes, it was. ---
**Author:** ![maikai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@maikai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maikai)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/34 "2005-01-04T02:52:38Z")
[Not Quite Human](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093649/) was one movie that I enjoyed as a kid but forgot about. Another favorite is [Flight of the Navigator](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091059/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9ZmxpZ2h0IG9mIHRoZSBuYXZpZ2F0b3J8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=1) which was finally released on DVD this year. Yeah! ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/35 "2005-01-04T04:00:19Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Aside from all the lighthearted comedies, didn’t Disney put out several musicals in the late '50s and early '60s? _Babes in Toyland_ (1961) and _Mary Poppins_ (1964). Several other Disney live action non-musicals featured one or two songs (e.g., _Darby O’Gill and the Little People_). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/36 "2005-01-04T04:25:05Z")
> [@](#): > > You want forgotten? How about a Disney film so obscure that Disney’s own representative didn’t know about it only three years after it was released? > > Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Condorman. > > It was adapted (badly) from a pretty good Robert Sheckley novel, and starred Michael Crawford (later to be famous as the Phantom of the Opera in the musical), Oliver Reed, and Barbara Carrera. I saw it as a special sneak preview, but I don’t know if it was ever released officially. I don’t remember **Condorman** being released, but I found it later on video, and had to rent it when saw that it was (supposedly) based on Robert Sheckley’s **The Game of X**. Sheckley has been adapted badly many times. This is one of those times. By the way, Michael Crawford was already pretty well known as a Broadway musical star, and had appeared as Hero in the movie **A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum**. He’d also been one of the leads in the movie version of **Hello, Dolly!**. He wasn’t exactly a movie unknown. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/37 "2005-01-04T04:38:16Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I don’t remember **Condorman** being released Oh, it was. I saw it. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/38 "2005-01-04T05:16:51Z")
Condorman was fantastic (when I was young), saw it several times at the movies. It turned the Porsche 911 into my favorite ‘cool’ car, there was a great car chase where the evil porsche assassins chased the condormobile. Some other memories of those great old films: C.H.O.M.P.S., a robot crimefighting terrier Bedknobs and Broomsticks Blackbeard’s Ghost Charlie the Cougar ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/39 "2005-01-04T05:50:39Z")
Gawd, I watched all these movies as as a kid! My favorite was The Cat From Outer Space. I dug that cat and his glowing collar that could make things move. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2005, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888/40 "2005-01-04T06:21:32Z")
Oh yeah, meant to mention, I was such a dork that I bought most of the novelisations of the Disney movies from the Scholastic Book Club. Escape to Witch Mountain, Cat from Outer Space, Gus, a bunch of others. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-disney-live-action-movies/282888.md?page=3)