Darby O’Gill and the Little People
Blu ray
Disney Movie Club
1959 / 1.66 : 1 / 93 Min.
Starring Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery
Written by Lawrence Edward Watkin
Directed by Robert Stevenson
A late ‘50s showcase for classic horror films, Shock Theater managed to captivate children and worry their over-protective parents. But the kids knew the score, if you were looking for a real shock, forget Frankenstein and Dracula and put on a Disney movie.
Walt Disney’s assault on our nervous systems began in 1937 with the story of a bloodthirsty crone bent on removing the heart of her trusting rival—that feel-good fable was followed by the huntsman who murdered Bambi’s mom, and the demon-fueled bacchanal in 1940’s Fantasia. Uncle Walt’s reign of terror reached its apex with another kind of mad monster party in 1959’s Darby O’Gill and the Little People—a full moon parade of green-eyed goblins...
Blu ray
Disney Movie Club
1959 / 1.66 : 1 / 93 Min.
Starring Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery
Written by Lawrence Edward Watkin
Directed by Robert Stevenson
A late ‘50s showcase for classic horror films, Shock Theater managed to captivate children and worry their over-protective parents. But the kids knew the score, if you were looking for a real shock, forget Frankenstein and Dracula and put on a Disney movie.
Walt Disney’s assault on our nervous systems began in 1937 with the story of a bloodthirsty crone bent on removing the heart of her trusting rival—that feel-good fable was followed by the huntsman who murdered Bambi’s mom, and the demon-fueled bacchanal in 1940’s Fantasia. Uncle Walt’s reign of terror reached its apex with another kind of mad monster party in 1959’s Darby O’Gill and the Little People—a full moon parade of green-eyed goblins...
- 5/31/2022
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
It’s an unusual sight for James Bond fans. Standing in a gloriously green Technicolor field by a California stream intended to pass for Ireland, Sean Connery cuts a more rugged approximation of Walt Disney masculinity, taking breaks between a swing of his scythe to sing, “She’s my dear, my darling one, my smilin’ and beguilin’ one, I love the ground she walks upon my darling Irish girl.”
To be charitable, Connery’s attempt at an Irish lilt was no more convincing in 1959’s Darby O’Gill and the Little People than it would be three decades later for his Oscar winning turn in The Untouchables. Nevertheless, there was something charming, beguiling even, about both performances, with the musical one proving strangely important to Connery getting the role of Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007.
That might be in large part because Dr. No producer Cubby Broccoli anticipated Fleming,...
To be charitable, Connery’s attempt at an Irish lilt was no more convincing in 1959’s Darby O’Gill and the Little People than it would be three decades later for his Oscar winning turn in The Untouchables. Nevertheless, there was something charming, beguiling even, about both performances, with the musical one proving strangely important to Connery getting the role of Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007.
That might be in large part because Dr. No producer Cubby Broccoli anticipated Fleming,...
- 11/2/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
To those of a certain generation, James Bond 007 will forever be defined by the way the original movie Bond, Sean Connery, played him. Recalling where you were when you saw Goldfinger for the first time has almost the same impact as many other momentous events in our young lives. As I was reminded this morning in an email from Darryl, my school buddy, “Remember when Bob Barr, you, and me went to see Goldfinger at the Palos Verdes Fox theater? We sat through it twice. Great memories.”
Ah, yes. He didn’t have to remind me. It seems like yesterday. We also sat through the Goofy cartoon short playing with it in order to do that. At that point I hadn’t even seen the first Bond film, Dr. No, and I do recall liking the second one, From Russia With Love, a lot. But Goldfinger was something else. It was,...
Ah, yes. He didn’t have to remind me. It seems like yesterday. We also sat through the Goofy cartoon short playing with it in order to do that. At that point I hadn’t even seen the first Bond film, Dr. No, and I do recall liking the second one, From Russia With Love, a lot. But Goldfinger was something else. It was,...
- 10/31/2020
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
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We have collected some of the best movies to stream on Disney+, from Star Wars to animation, and Marvel to Mary Poppins.
Disney+ is the gift that keeps on giving for anyone who ever grew up listening to “If You Wish Upon a Star” (which is almost all living Americans). More than likely, you spent the first week or two of the service diving into childhood favorites from your youth. But what if you want to venture out? What if you want to watch movies you might remember, vaguely, but don’t have memorized by heart? Well, we’re here to humbly collect for you the best family movies to watch on Disney+!
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
This definitive adaptation of the Jules Verne classic still delights baby boomers and likely a fair number of their grandchildren too. A winsome fantasy about...
We have collected some of the best movies to stream on Disney+, from Star Wars to animation, and Marvel to Mary Poppins.
Disney+ is the gift that keeps on giving for anyone who ever grew up listening to “If You Wish Upon a Star” (which is almost all living Americans). More than likely, you spent the first week or two of the service diving into childhood favorites from your youth. But what if you want to venture out? What if you want to watch movies you might remember, vaguely, but don’t have memorized by heart? Well, we’re here to humbly collect for you the best family movies to watch on Disney+!
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
This definitive adaptation of the Jules Verne classic still delights baby boomers and likely a fair number of their grandchildren too. A winsome fantasy about...
- 12/5/2019
- Den of Geek
Tonight, Burn Notice reaches its 100th episode! In ”Forget Me Not,” Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) returns to Miami, but he is instructed to not talk to his friends. Instead he — along with his handler — observes them as they try to find the guy who, in the premiere, tricked Madeline (Sharon Gless) into revealing that Michael is working with the CIA.
“I think it’s a wonderful episode for the fans,” Donovan tells us. He calls the episode “very voyeuristic”– expect a lot of heart-leaping moments while Michael lovingly watches Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar)– and it was doubly so for him, given that he also directed it.
“I think it’s a wonderful episode for the fans,” Donovan tells us. He calls the episode “very voyeuristic”– expect a lot of heart-leaping moments while Michael lovingly watches Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar)– and it was doubly so for him, given that he also directed it.
- 6/13/2013
- by Sarah Caldwell
- EW.com - PopWatch
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