Favorite Childhood movie

[Rickster71]

March of the Wooden Soldiers

March of the Wooden Soldiers
A holiday staple, many television stations in the US showed this film near Thanksgiving time each year during the '60s and '70s.

There are a few parts in the movie where they sing, as a kid I remember wondering why they ruined such a cool movie with singing.

In New York, it was run on WPIX TV channel 11, as "March of the Wooden Soldiers," and still runs on that station in daytime on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day: on Channel 11 and other stations, it has run more times than The Wizard of Oz, It's a Wonderful Life, and A Charlie Brown Christmas. In more recent years, it has been shown in some markets on Christmas Day. The film's contrasted plot of having the toy soldiers fight against a large group of monsters has become the more popular storyline than the original operetta.

 

[markw]

Invaders from Mars, 1953 version.

I think this resounded with me because when it hit the TV in the late 50's/early 60's, I was just about the same age of the young protagonist and was going through the same feelings of alienation and just realizing that I really wasn't the most important person in the world.

Also, this movie had some fantastic cinematography, I can still see that tiny little boy approaching the brobdingnagian desk where the chief or police sat. Talk about a feeling of insignificance...

For a more complete analysis of this movie, click here

 

[gmichael]

From when I was a kid? I’d have to say Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was up there. Something about a flying car amazed me. I saw it again recently and was surprised to see that Benny Hill was one of the main characters.

I also loved that TV show My Mother the Car. I guess I didn’t mind trading one Dyke for the other.

 

[j_garcia]

I was a huge fan of "Creature Feature", so all the classic horror/sci-fi films were favorites of mine (Dracula, Mummy, Wolfman, Frankenstein, Creature from the Black Lagoon, etc...). I loved all the Harryhausen films, Godzilla films, etc...

I saw Chinese Connection, Enter the Dragon and Game of Death in the theater when I was little

 

[markw]

I guess I didn’t mind trading one Dyke for the other.

That's what she said...

 

[JohnA]

I also need to add to my list most of the Disney movies...I'm partial, my grandfather was an animator for most of them.

Oh and Monster Squad.