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Moon Pilot (Buena Vista). Sacred cows, if skillfully milked, produce tuns of fun; but Hollywood usually avoids them because they often kick back. The more reason to be pleasantly surprised that Walt Disney, not specifically known for socio-political daring, should have herded three of these pampered critters-the FBI, the Air Force and the astronaut program -into the same plot. Under the deft manipulation of Director James Neilson and Scenarist Maurice Tombragel, they produce a fairly steady stream of healthy nonsense...
Babes in Toyland (Buena Vista), Walt Disney's first live-action musical, is a wonderful piece of entertainment for children under five, but children over five who plan to see it will be well advised to take some Berlitz brushup lessons in baby talk...
Greyfriars Bobby (Buena Vista). Once upon a time, about a hundred years ago, a frisky little Skye terrier lived in the Lammermuir Hills near Edinburgh and loved Auld Jock the shepherd with dogged devotion. One day, too old to earn his keep, the shepherd (Alexander Mackenzie) was heartlessly turned off the croft. The terrier followed his master to town, sat by his side while he died in a dismal padding ken, followed his coffin to Greyfriars kirkyard, plumped himself down on the old man's grave to spend the night. "No dogs allowed!" the sour old sexton (Donald Crisp...
Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (Buena Vista). Disney in the raw is seldom mild, but the Dad-why-can't-I-have-a-hunting-knife set doesn't mind. This incessantly violent, incessantly beautiful adaptation of James Oliver Curwood's Nomads of the North will delight every ten-year-old who ever wrestled his pillow and pretended it was a grizzly bear...
...Parent Trap (Buena Vista) might be expected to create pandemic jaundice among adult viewers, since it concerns the efforts of teen-aged twins to kid their divorced parents into remarrying. Surprisingly, the film is delightful-mostly because of 15-year-old Hayley Mills, the blonde button nose who played the endearing delinquent in Tiger...