Children love fun adventures. Here's a collection of six of the best! Kids play pranks on the new teacher to try and keep their old one (Curly); help their clueless dad find the right mate (Mickey); befriend and protect an orphaned seal (Sandy the Seal), or an Alaskan sled dog (Toby McTeague); visit a magical world of song and dance (The Pied Piper of Hamelin); or solve a murder mystery by seeking out clues in a spooky mansion (Who Killed Doc Robbin?). DIGITALLY REMASTERED - SOUND ENHANCED TIME: Appox. 7hr. 33min / COLOR & BW / PG / 2xDVD 9
Includes:
Curley (1947)
Who Killed Doc Robbin? (1948)
Sandy the Seal (1969)
Toby McTeague (1986), MPAA Rating: PG
Curley
A group of conniving juvenile delinquents set out to ruin the first day of school for a new teacher (Frances Rafferty), but find that the joke is on them. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Producer Hal Roach's postwar attempt to create a new bunch of "Our Gang" kids resulted in two misfire Cinecolor comedies, the second of which was Who Killed Doc Robbin. Heading this unappealing new crop of youngsters is Jackie Cooper lookalike Larry Olsen as Curley, who enters the story when sinister scientist Doc Robbin (George Zucco) disappears after a lab explosion as is presumed murdered. The most likely suspect is kindly old Dan (Whitford Kane), and Curley and his pals intend to prove Dan's innocence. To do this, they must snoop around Robbin's spooky old house, leading to a series of "fright" gags that were old when Harold Lloyd did them back in 1921. In the tradition of the earlier Our Gang comedies, Who Killed Doc Robbin features a pair of black kids, one of whom is Renee Beard, the brother of 1930s Our Gang favorite Matthew "Stymie" Beard. Originally released in tandem with the Hal Roach streamliner Here Comes Trouble, Who Killed 'Doc' Robbin was later combined with its predecessor Curley (1948) into a single feature titled Curley and His Gang in the Haunted Mansion. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Sandy the Seal
In this children's drama, a loving lighthouse keeper finds a stray seal and brings it home for his children to raise. Meanwhile, the kids try to run heartless poachers out of town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Toby McTeague
Toby McTeague (Yannick Bisson) is a teen-aged boy, living in a flyspeck town in Northern Canada with his father and younger brother. Toby's thriving livelihood, raising and training sled dogs, is threatened by a dip in the local economy. His problems are intensified by the ongoing hostilities between Toby and his dad (Winston Reckert). Running away from home, Toby makes the acquaintance of elderly Indian chief George Wild Dog (George Clutesi), who years earlier had been "shaman," or spiritual advisor, to Toby's father. It is Chief Wild Dog who mystically brings father and son together at the film's climax, in addition to rescuing Toby's sled-dog business in a near-miraculous fashion. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
