My Live-Action Disney “Vault Disney” Wish List:

The Moon-Spinners
Only vaguely resembles the original Mary Stewart novel, but I don’t really care.. Doesn’t everyone remember Hayley Mills and the windmill?

Summer Magic
Sheer fluff I can watch again and again. Watch for funky Michael J. Pollard in a normal role!

In Search of the Castaways
More Hayley...plus Michael Anderson Jr. and Maurice Chevalier and all the Jules Verne-type adventure you could ever want.

The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
Of course the ultimate dream would be that Patrick McGoohan would do commentary on this one. Fat chance, but a nice dream nevertheless. Great adventure story about English smugglers. (Done for The Wonderful World of Color, released theatrically in Europe.)

The Three Lives of Thomasina
More McGoohan, Susan Hampshire, the two children from Mary Poppins, and another Disney kid star standard, Vincent Winter. Not just a kids’ story about a girl and her cat--surprisingly mature look at the nature of love between parents and children, children and animals, men and women.

The Horse Without A Head
Here’s a longshot...another story made for the television series and released theatrically in Europe. Five French slum children thwart bank robbers with the curious help of their only toy, a headless hobbyhorse they race through the streets. Early appearance by Pamela Franklin, the dog lover whose canine menagerie provides a memorable climax.

Mary Poppins
‘Nuff said.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Besides just the look of this movie, two words: James Mason.

Victory Through Air Power
A great re-release in this time of World War II retrospectives--how about packaging it with Disney wartime cartoons, UNCUT!, and documentaries? It can carry notes that it sometimes isn’t politically correct, if necessary.

Follow Me, Boys!
Because I’m a sentimental slob, that’s why.

Collections of some of the short subjects that either later ended up on the television show or were made for the television show:

• ”The Horse with the Flying Tail”
  
• ”Stormy the Thoroughbred”
  
• ”The Tattooed Police Horse”
  
• ”Run, Appaloosa, Run”
  
• ”The Little Shepherd Dog of Catalina”
  
• ”Three on the Run”
  
• ”Little Dog Lost”
  
• ”Greta the Misfit Greyhound”
  
• ”Pablo and the Dancing Chihuahua”
  

etc. (Maybe released as a “Horse Lovers’ DVD” and a “Dog Lover’s DVD”?)

The collected True-Life Adventures

Collections of:
The Swamp Fox
Elfego Baca
Texas John Slaughter
(Why not? They’ve already done Davy Crockett!)

And Always the Choice Du Jour

A box set of the best Disney television hero of all time, Gallegher, the copyboy turned reporter. Gallgher. The Further Adventures of Gallegher. Gallegher Goes West. The Mystery of Edward Sims. With Roger Mobley commentary, if he’d do so. And Peter Graves and Harvey Korman and Anne Francis and perhaps Tim McIntyre talking about his parents... Now there would be a dream come true!

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