Summer Magic (1963) starring Hayley Mills, Dorothy McGuire and Burl Ives
The Moon-Spinners (1964) starring Hayley Mills and Joan Greenwood
In Search of the Castaways is an adventure adapted from a Jules Verne novel. There were too many disasters in it for my liking especially as a Disney movie. Some of the disasters were an earthquake, a flash flood, an avalanche and a volcano. What did not make sense was two youngsters going out on their own to look for their missing at sea father.
Summer Magic was my favorite of the three I watched today. It is a musical and romance. A widow and her three children move to a hick town in Maine. A cousin that had a more privileged upbringing comes to live with them. Burl Ives plays the friendly postmaster and proprietor of general store. The family gets along great with the townspeople. Note that we currently live in a Maine hick town!
The Moon-Spinners is a mystery; Disney's answer to Hitchcock. Moon-Spinners is a hotel in Crete that a young lady and her aunt are staying it. While there she befriends a gentleman who is out to solve who stole some jewels he was originally arrested for stealing. Hayley was looking for a more adult movie role but this really did not fit the bill.
In the evening I watched the following two "Shaggy" movies.
The first was the first live-action comedy by Walt Disney.
The second was the film debut for Jo Anne Worley,
she portrayed Tim Conway's eventual girlfriend.
The Shaggy Dog (1959) starring Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen and Tommy Kirk
The Shaggy D.A. (1976) starring Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette
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