Word: hayleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...December, Walt Disney can be relied upon to deliver a big, bright Christmasy gewgaw for the holiday trade. Sometimes it is a stray animal epic, sometimes a folksy romantic comedy, sometimes a wholesome teen-age adventure. This year it is all three, wrapped around the substantial screen presence of Hayley Mills, who goes gumshoeing on the trail of a criminal tomcat while her sister (Dorothy Provine) scrutinizes FBI Agent Dean Jones. Hayley nips through her role as though English accents were an absolute must among subdebs of Southern California, and Scrooge himself might unbend when she reports saucily...
...haunted castle. Donald Duck meeting Frankenstein. Hordes of psychotic chipmunks slaughtering each other for nuts. But The Moon-Spinners, filmed in picture-book color on the island of Crete, turns out to be daft and breezy escapism assigned to a cast of flesh-and-blood actors headed by Hayley Mills. Given a plot that might fit snugly into the Nancy Drew mystery series, Hayley plays it with the knowing air of a junior-miss James Bond...
...Hayley and her aunt (Joan Greenwood), vacationing at a sunny village inn, meet a spirited young English compatriot (Peter McEnery). Enter Eli Wallach, as the swarthy Greek villain who knows that Peter knows too much about a jewel theft back in London, and the plot begins to fizz. Peter turns up, with a bullet wound, in an ancient spooky crypt. Hayley skips to the rescue. Showing an appetite for danger that 007 himself might envy, she is bound and gagged in a rat-infested granary, makes a wild leap to freedom on the rotating vanes of a windmill, cracks...
...film's choicest surprise occurs in the last reel or so, when Hayley blithely outwits 69-year-old Pola Negri, femme fatale of the silent era. In her first film since 1943, Temptress Negri, coddling her pet cheetah aboard an improbable yacht, plays an eccentric millionairess with a passion for jewels. Her bizarre, spoofing comeback points up a new worldliness in Disney, who has obviously decided that what was grand passion for Grandpa is just good clean fun for the kids...
Sweetness and light were her stock in trade as Walt Disney's Pollyanna, but now that she's turned 18, Britain's Hayley Mills has become sweet lightning. Rising like the seasoned trouper she is from a 103° sickbed to prance in the chorus line at a London benefit, the "glad" girl shook a dazzling pair of legs and uncorked some un-Disneyfied bumps and grinds. In a separate bit, she vanished into a box as a magician's assistant, but demonstrated conclusively that she is one child star who won't need...