90% (2) Mickey's Christmas Carol 26 min, G, [Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Fantasy] [Burny Mattinson] [16 Dec 1983]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 81%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Actors: Alan Young, Hal Smith, Wayne Allwine, Will Ryan
Writer: Charles Dickens (based on the book: "A Christmas Carol" by), Burny Mattinson (story adaptation), Tony Marino (story adaptation), Ed Gombert (story adaptation), Don Griffith (story adaptation), Alan Young (story adaptation), Alan Dinehart (story adaptation)
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Plot: It's the same old classic Charles Dickens story with an all star Disney cast. Uncle Scrooge McDuck is appropriately enough Scrooge and is visited by his dead partner and 3 spirits one night to remember the joys of Christmas.
Rotten Tomatoes: A 1983 animated version of the Dickens classic, with Mickey Mouse as Bob Cratchit and Scrooge McDuck as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge. Nominated for an Oscar.
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82% (2) Tom Thumb 98 min, APPROVED, [Family, Fantasy, Musical] [George Pal] [24 Dec 1958]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 nominations.
Actors: Alan Young, June Thorburn, Peter Sellers, Russ Tamblyn, Terry-Thomas
Writer: Ladislas Fodor (screenplay), Jacob Grimm (based on a story from the pen of), Wilhelm Grimm (based on a story from the pen of)
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Plot: Follows a boy, no bigger than a thumb, who manages to outwit two thieves determined to make a fortune from him.
Rotten Tomatoes: Producer/animator/special-effect maven George Pal made his feature-film directorial bow with the colorful MGM musical fantasy Tom Thumb (the title of the film was spelled in lower case in the opening credits, and in all studio publicity material). Russ Tamblyn stars as the teeny-tiny titular protagonist, while veteran musicomedy favorite Jessie Mathews and stellar character actor Bernard Miles portray Tom's normal-sized parents. Journeying to the Village, Tom is pounced upon by villains Ivan (Terry-Thomas) and Tony (a corpulent Peter Sellers), who intend to exploit our 5 1/2-inch-tall hero. In-between his misadventures with the villains, Tom helps to expedite the romance between young forester Woody (Alan Young) and the magical Forest Queen (June Thorburn). Throughout, the special effects and oversized sets are first-rate, as are the "puppetoons" sequences featuring such delightful characters as The Yawning Man (voice by Stan Freberg). Written by several hands, the film's songs are hummable, if not particularly memorable. It is said that some children in the audience in 1958 were genuinely frightened by the more horrific aspects of the story (including the threatened execution of Tom's parents); it may be, however, that the adults were more scared than the kids. Incidentally, while most of Tom Thumb was filmed in MGM's London facilities, the special effects were produced in Hollywood, requiring Russ Tamblyn to do a lot of travelling.
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78% (2) DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp 74 min, G, [Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy] [Bob Hathcock] [03 Aug 1990]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Alan Young, Christopher Lloyd, Richard Libertini, Russi Taylor, Terence McGovern
Writer: Alan Burnett (animation screenplay)
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Plot: Scrooge McDuck, his dimwitted pilot Launch Pad, and his newphews Huey, Dewey and Louie, with Webby, arrive in Egypt where Scrooge finds the lost treasure of Collie Baba, unbeknownst to Scrooge, a magic lamp was included inside the treasure, so while the nephews have fun with the genie, they all have no idea that they're being stalked by a power hungry sorceror named Murlock and his dimwitted thief counterpart, Dijon.
Rotten Tomatoes: Based on the popular Disney animated afternoon television adventure series, which was in turn based on such supporting characters from earlier Donald Duck films and comic books as Scrooge McDuck and Donald's mischievous nephews Huey, Duey and Louie, this adventure chronicles the attempts of the four quackers to find a valuable lamp and its powerful genie. Complicating matters is the intervention of the wicked magician Merlock.
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76% (2) The Time Machine 103 min, G, [Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller] [George Pal] [02 Sep 1960]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 76%, Rotten Tomatoes: 77%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
Actors: Alan Young, Rod Taylor, Sebastian Cabot, Yvette Mimieux
Writer: David Duncan (screenplay), H.G. Wells (novel)
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Plot: On January 5, 1900, a disheveled looking H.G. Wells - George to his friends - arrives late to his own dinner party. He tells his guests of his travels in his time machine, the work about which his friends knew. They were also unbelieving, and skeptical of any practical use if it did indeed work. George knew that his machine was stationary in geographic position, but he did not account for changes in what happens over time to that location. He also learns that the machine is not impervious and he is not immune to those who do not understand him or the machine's purpose. George tells his friends that he did not find the Utopian society he so wished had developed. He mentions specifically a civilization several thousand years into the future which consists of the subterranean morlocks and the surface dwelling eloi, who on first glance lead a carefree life. Despite all these issues, love can still bloom over the spread of millennia.
Rotten Tomatoes: The time traveler (Rod Taylor) invents a machine that transcends the boundaries of time and space. As each year passed, the window mannequin in the store across the street changes fashions with the times. He is able to increase the speed of the machine as seasons fly by in a matter of seconds. The traveler advanced millennia into the future and finds a group of people enslaved to the powers of a subterranean underworld. The film is taken from the novel by H. G. Wells.
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47% (2) Androcles and the Lion 98 min, APPROVED, [Adventure, Comedy] [Chester Erskine, Nicholas Ray] [09 Jan 1953]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, Rotten Tomatoes: 33%, External Reviews
Actors: Alan Young, Jean Simmons, Robert Newton, Victor Mature
Writer: Chester Erskine (screen adaptation), Ken Englund (screen adaptation)
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Plot: Androcles is a Christian who follows that religion's teachings even as they apply to the treatment of animals. Seeing a lion in pain, he removes a huge thorn from the beast's paw, creating a friend for life. Androcles and a number of other Christians are evenutally arrested and condemned to death in the arena. They are to die by being eaten by lions. Is it too much to hope that one of the lions may have a paw that has healed recently and might remember who helped heal it?
Rotten Tomatoes: With George Bernard Shaw safely in his grave, RKO chief Howard Hughes had no qualms about twisting and bending Shaw's +Androcles & the Lion to accommodate his own notions of entertainment. Happier, wiser heads prevailed before the Hughes-commissioned "Vestal Virgins" sequence, complete with near-naked dancing girls, was foisted on the public. Originally, Harpo Marx was to have played Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Colosseum. A few days into shooting, however, Harpo was replaced by Alan Young, who was okay but not in Marx's league. RKO habitués Jean Simmons and Victor Mature co-star as, respectively, a courageous Christian girl and the bullheaded Roman captain who falls in love with her. Every Shaw play has one character who acts as the playwright's alter ego; in +Androcles, it's none other than Caesar himself, here wittily essayed by Maurice Evans. Director Chester Erskine co-adapted the play for the screen with Ken Englund; serving as producer was Gabriel Pascal.
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74% (1) Margie 94 min, APPROVED, [Comedy] [Henry King] [01 Nov 1946]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, External Reviews
Actors: Alan Young, Glenn Langan, Jeanne Crain, Lynn Bari
Writer: F. Hugh Herbert (screen play by), Ruth McKenney (based on stories by), Richard Bransten (based on stories by)
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Plot: Margie and her daughter reminisce about Margie's girlhood in the roaring twenties. In flashback, Margie, a smarter, less popular girl at Central High, meets handsome new French teacher Ralph Fontayne; circumstances keep throwing them together and Margie, in company with every other girl in school, develops a crush on him. Then Margie's date for the prom gets sick, and what happens next surprises everyone.
Rotten Tomatoes: This tuneful comedy centers on a mother's reminiscence of her wild time as a 1920s teenage flapper. Margie is first seen fully grown telling her stories to her own teen-age daughter. Back then, Margie was a typical adolescent, crazy about boys and an expert on the day's fashions.
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66% (1) Chicken Every Sunday 94 min, APPROVED, [Comedy] [George Seaton] [04 Jul 1949]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, External Reviews
Actors: Alan Young, Celeste Holm, Colleen Townsend, Dan Dailey
Writer: Valentine Davies, Julius J. Epstein (play), Philip G. Epstein (play), George Seaton, Rosemary Taylor (book)
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Plot: Tucson, Arizona, circa 1910: Emily Hefferan wants a divorce. In flashback, she recalls twenty years of marriage to Jim Hefferan, who sinks every cent of each new windfall in harebrained investments. Emily only keeps a roof over the family by taking in boarders...more and more of them. But Jim's latest deal goes just a little too far.
Rotten Tomatoes: George Seaton's 1948 comedy Chicken Every Sunday was based on the play by Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein as well as the original memoirs of Rosemary Taylor. Set during the turn of the century on the American frontier, Emily Heffernan (Celeste Holm) is the practical wife of foolish would-be businessman Jim Heffernan (Dan Dailey). While Emily struggles to keep the household together by renting out rooms to boarders, Jim wastes the family's earnings on get-rich-quick schemes. Told in flashback, Emily recalls her 20-year marriage before filing for divorce. Emily has had enough and wants to leave, but their friends try to get them back together. Also starring Colleen Townsend, Alan Young, and a ten-year-old Natalie Wood.
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