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.
The Moonspinners with Hayley Mills.
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?
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)
One of my favorite live action Disney movies when I was growing up was Pete’s Dragon.
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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.
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.
There was also Disney’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes.
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
Yes, and it was actually fairly decent. It was more or less remade as Mr. Holland’s Opus.
Yeah, I remember seeing previews for it, and a friend of mine saw it in the theaters when it came out.
On the Right Track. It was a 20th Century Fox movie, not a Disney production. Sadly, apparently not available in any format whatsoever. 
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?
Yes, it was.
Not Quite Human was one movie that I enjoyed as a kid but forgot about.
Another favorite is Flight of the Navigator which was finally released on DVD this year. Yeah!
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).
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.
Oh, it was. I saw it. :smack:
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
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.
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.