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The AristoCats (1970)
The AristoCats is an interesting animal (intentional pun), because, on the one hand, its story is deliberately lifted from past Disney features; but, on the other, it’s more adult and original than...
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Robin Hood (1973)
For 20 years I’ve been living a lie. Before today, I had believed I’d never seen Robin Hood all the way through. In my mind, I’d seen the first 20 or so minutes, then gave up due to my general...
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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
Winnie the Pooh can be placed alongside Mickey Mouse as one of the Disney company‘s enduring characters. In fact, you could consider the Winnie the Pooh gang to be just as vaunted as the Fab Five,...
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The Rescuers (1977)
The close of the 1970s marks a turning point in the Walt Disney Company. We’ve seen turning points before with individual films, but none more so than in The Rescuers. The film would be the last hit...
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Apartment for Peggy (1948)
While I didn’t have glowing praise for 20th Century Fox‘s adaptation of Tender is the Night, just released on their Cinema Archives label, I found it in this 1948 comedy. Apartment for Peggy is a...
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The Fox and the Hound (1981)
The next five weeks sees us navigating the hostile waters of the Walt Disney Company in the 1980s, which will eventually end with us entering the last golden age Disney’s had for a while. The Fox and...
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The Black Cauldron (1985)
As a child, The Black Cauldron was the “red-headed stepchild” of the Disney canon. And not just the stepchild, we’re talking the stepchild you kept under the stairs! The movie was a commercial...
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The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
With 1986′s The Great Mouse Detective we’re inching ever closer to the Disney Renaissance that would go on into the beginning of the 1990s. It’s not commonly known, but this film is attributed as the...
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Oliver & Company (1988)
This week’s installment of Journeys in the Disney Vault is special because we are officially halfway through the entire Disney animated canon (there’s 53 movies – the last of which comes out this year...
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Stella Dallas (1937)
I’m surprised how often this is compared to the 1945 Joan Crawford melodrama, Mildred Pierce, because they’re strikingly different. Sure, they both feature determined mothers yearning to please their...
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The Little Mermaid (1989)
We’re officially at the end of the 1980s! The Little Mermaid ushered in a string of hits, both commercially and critically, that would spark off the Disney Renaissance. From here on in, the studio...
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Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
**This is my contribution to the Mary Astor blogathon. You can see the rest of the contributions over at Silver Screenings or Tales of the Easily Distracted Meet Me in St. Louis came highly...
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Little Miss Nobody (1936) & Paddy O’Day (1935)
The next four days will be devoted to the films of actress Jane Withers. Why, do you ask? A) Because I got a mess of her movies that I want to review and B) because the reviews lead up to my full...
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Chicken Wagon Family (1939) & Golden Hoofs (1941)
Day 2 in the Four Days with Jane series, and we see another set of movies dealing with the immigrant experience, and spirited teenage hijinks. These two see Withers getting older, with the latter...
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The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935), Rascals (1938), & High School (1940)
The final three films in the Four Days with Jane series show the good, the bad, and the ugly! High School and Rascals are Jane at her madcap best, with the edge going to the latter. The final one,...
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The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
I’ve returned with a new decade in the Disney Vault. The nineties saw Disney churning out film upon film, so it’ll take almost all summer for me to get through this decade. The Rescuers Down Under...
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A Summer Place (1959)
I’m writing this review later in the day for several reasons: 1) I watched the movie late at night and didn’t have the energy to churn out a decent review, and 2) I struggled to figure out the best...
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Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Beauty and the Beast: The film that changed everything! This was the animation feature that proved to the naysayers that animated films were just as compelling as live-action movies, and it said that...
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Aladdin (1992)
A persona anecdote for you all: Last semester I wrote a fifteen page paper about the use of ethnicity and dress with regards to today’s Disney Vault feature, so I’m both extremely well-versed and...
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The Henry Fonda Collection: The Longest Day (1962), The Grapes of Wrath...
The Longest Day is a three-hour opus following all the events leading up to and in execution of D-Day. This 1962 docudrama has the distinction of being the most expensive black and white film made at...
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