Films featuring
Donald Pleasence

Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

Look as far as you can see. Mr. Bolt owns everything in sight.

Well, I can see the sky.

Escape to Witch Mountain is probably the archetype of the Disney live action picture in the 1970s, a featherweight but thoroughly entertaining confection of juvenile wish fulfillment. Ask people in my generation (and a little younger) what their favorite movie was as a little kid and they’re probably as likely as not say this one (My answer would be Le Mans, but I was a weird kid). Escape was a huge hit by the standards of this kind of movie and one of the few Disney movies to inspire a sequel until we were struck with the plague of animated straight-to-video sequels during the 1990s.

Escape to Witch Mountain

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The Great Escape (1963)

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

One has to ask some very strange things in the job I have.

The Great Escape is a featherweight escapist entertainment (pardon the pun) disguised as a true story. While the basic facts of the story are faithful to real events, great liberties are also taken, mostly to make the film more appealing to American audiences.

The Great Escape

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