Subgenre Sampler
Family: 1838 Films to Buy & Rent
Torchy The Battery Boy (TV Series) (1959)
- Children's TV series from the late 1950's with string puppets depicting the adventures of a boy doll who has a battery inside him and a lamp on his…
Auntie Mame (1958)
- Dir. Morton DaCosta
Feat. Rosalind Russell, Peggy Cass, Coral Browne
- Classic Oscar–nominated showcase for Rosalind Russell, as a colourful, high–living rouser who educates her 10yr old nephew in the ways of…
Disney Fables - Volume 1 (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Prince and the Pauper) (1958)
- Two classic short animations from Disney: Washington Irving’s spooky “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and Mark Twain's "Prince and the Pauper".…
Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
- Dir. Nathan Juran
Feat. Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant (Crosby), Richard Eyer…
- In his first and most engaging adventure, Sinbad convincingly duels the Cyclops, a dragon and a hyperactive skeleton without any computer assistance,…
Sinbad Collector's Edition (Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger) (1958-1977)
- Feat. Kerwin Mathews, John Phillip Law, Patrick Wayne
Famous Five, The: Five on a Treasure Island (1957)
- Dir. Gerald Landau
Feat. Rel Grainer, Richard Palmer, Gillian Harrison…
- Ginger beer and picnics are put on hold as the five set out in search of hidden treasure, and in pursuit the requisite dastardly villains.…
Old Yeller (1957)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk…
- Many Mums and Dads (and Grand–folk) will remember queuing up for this Disney classic about a boy's love for his dog in 1850s Texas.
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956)
- Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Jeff York…
- Fess Parker returns as the frontier folk–hero, here battling his way down the Mississippi enroute to New Orleans. plenty of excitement to be…
Great Locomotive Chase, The (1956)
- Feat. Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York
- An adventure story based on a true American Civil War mission behind Confederate lines to steal a Union train and destroy some strategically…
Red Balloon, The (Ballon Rouge, Le) (1956)
- Dir. Albert Lamorisse
- Classic French short that still manages to captivate audiences with its simple premise of a young Parisian boy who discovers a red balloon with a…