Forgotten Disney Live-Action Movies

[Mr_Jim]

@pulehoopo

Another favorite is [URL=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091059/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9ZmxpZ2h0IG9mIHRoZSBuYXZpZ2F0b3J8aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=1]Flight of the Navigator which was finally released on DVD this year. Yeah!

Another MASSIVE Flight of the Navigator fan here. Thanks for the dvd info!

I also love Bedknobs and Broomsticks to death.

[ouryL]

To Quote the Mighty Sherlock:

@holmes

I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it - there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. *It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones. *

:dubious:

[Tuckerfan]

@a35362

I guess these weren’t Disney, but does anyone else remember Digby: The Biggest Dog in the World (1973), about an Old English Sheepdog that accidentally swallows some secret growth formula (developed to make food bigger to combat world hunger - I remember the scene where a group of men carry in a gigantic cucumber). At one point the kid who owns the dog winds up in his mouth and he yells, “Digby! Don’t swallow!” Of course the inside of the dog’s mouth is like a big dry cave with teeth, and the kid’s voice echoes.

Or how about Hawmps!, about the cavalry having to learn to ride camels because there aren’t enough horses? All I remember is a scene where someone gets shot, but - he survives because he’s got a Bible or some other book in his chest pocket, and there’s the ball in the middle of the pages! Probably Don Knotts and Slim Pickens were involved.

Hawmps was done by the same guy who does the Benji films.

The one thing I remember about Digby is the diner scene where the silverware’s chained to the table and the guy has to slide his plate back and forth to use it.

[Ranchoth]

You know, I actually liked The Black Hole, even as a kid. I just re-watched it a few months ago, and it’s really not that bad.

Also the only Disney movie with—

…Norman Bates getting disemboweled by a robot. On screen. :eek:

The ending was pretty trippy, though. But not in a “pointless psychedelic images” way, like so many Scifi movies of the 60-70s.

Anyway…does anyone else remember one called One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing? I used to love that one as a little kid…I don’t remember the plot, and I don’t know if I even understood it back then, but I know I really got a kick out of the dinosaur skeleton jutting out of a truck. (I was weird that way.)