Family Movies
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and discovers a world of…
Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (1972)
Santa Claus finds his sleigh stuck in the sand on a Florida beach only days before Christmas Eve.
You’re Not Elected Charlie Brown (1972)
With the school election looming, Linus is talked into running for school president. With Lucy and Charlie Brown as his campaign manager and Snoopy and Woodstock assisting, he stands a…
Treasure Island (1972)
Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer’s treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale.
The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972)
John and his class go on a school trip to the Tower of London. While he is there he loses his pet mouse and vows to return and find her…
The Girl on the Broomstick (1972)
A teenage witch, Saxana (Petra Černocká), frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, finds herself in a modern world.
George (1972)
After a St. Bernard named George is given to a relative by it’s owner he causes mischief in the neighboring town and for the newly named owner, After enough terror…
Snoopy Come Home (1972)
When Snoopy receives a letter from his original owner Lila, he goes to visit her in the hospital while Charlie Brown and the gang are on the lookout for him….
Now You See Him Now You Don’t (1972)
Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dexter and his friends, Debbie and Richard Schuyler,…
Lone Wolf (1972)
A boy finds a large wolf-like dog in the mountain and they befriend. The local peasants think that it may be a real wolf responsible for the sheep pestilence. They…
Napoleon and Samantha (1972)
Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.
Living Free (1972)
When Elsa’s three mischievious cubs begin wreaking havok on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.
The Biscuit Eater (1972)
Nothing warms the heart like the story of a boy and his dog. Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) and Text (George Spell) are two friends determined, against all odds, to turn a…
The Lorax (1972)
The Once-ler, a ruined industrialist, tells the tale of his rise to wealth and subsequent fall, as he disregarded the warnings of a wise old forest creature called the Lorax…
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)
It’s Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton’s Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa’s return home from his job in the city some 50 miles…
Curious Alice (1971)
The story “Alice in Wonderland” is used as a metaphor about the dangers of accidental drug use among children. Curious Alice’s trip to Wonderland is not through the rabbit hole,…
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children’s initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact…
Hacksaw (1971)
A girl goes on vacation to the mountains where she finds a wild horse named Hacksaw. With a little help, she captures the stud and it doesn’t take long until…
The Cat in the Hat (1971)
In a marvelously animated version of one of the most beloved of all Dr. Seuss tales, two youngsters find themselves at home with nothing to do on a rainy afternoon….
The Million Dollar Duck (1971)
Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds out that it lays golden eggs.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket…
Scandalous John (1971)
A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people–and the law–tell him he has to.
Flight of the Doves (1971)
While fleeing across the Irish countryside, two orphans are pursued by their villainous uncle, a master of disguises.
Black Beauty (1971)
Anna Sewell’s classic 1877 novel beautifully comes to life in this family drama set in England. Told from the point of view of Black Beauty himself, the story sheds light…
Play It Again Charlie Brown (1971)
Play It Again, Charlie Brown is the seventh prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. This non-holiday Peanuts special centers on Lucy,…
Animal Treasure Island (1971)
A Japanese adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, featuring animals as the majority of the cast. By chance Jim comes upon a map of Treasure Island. He leaves the…
The Barefoot Executive (1971)
In the great Disney tradition of wild family fun, a young Kurt Russell stars as Steven Post – an ambitious mailroom clerk at a second-rate TV network. With his eye…
Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971)
The Royal Ballet Company brings Squirrel Nutkin, Tom Thumb, Hunca Munca, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Jeremy Fisher, Pigling Bland, and Pigwig to the screen doing pirouettes and pas de deux in this…
The Point (1971)
Years ago, there was a place called The Land of Point, because everything in The Land of Point had one: the barns, the houses, the cars, everything, even the people….
How to Frame a Figg (1971)
Don Knotts is Hollis Figg, the dumbest bookkeeper in town. When the city fathers buy a second-hand computer to cover up their financial shenanigans, they promote Figg to look after…
Jack and the Beanstalk (1970)
Retelling of the classic fairy tale, but from a decidedly 1960s point of view, complete with “groovy” dialogue.
The Aristocats (1970)
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on…
The Railway Children (1970)
After the enforced absence of their father, the three Waterbury children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where they find themselves involved in several unexpected dramas along the railway by…
The Wild Country (1970)
Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, Virgil and Andy, journey to the wild country of 1890s Wyoming to become farmers. Soon,…
Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town (1970)
A postman, S.D. Kluger, decides to answer some of the most common questions about Santa Claus, and tells us about a baby named Kris who is raised by a family…