Favorite Children's Movie Memories

[LadyAnn]

The Wizard of Oz will always be my favorite.  I watch it every year on Halloween night while passing out candy to the tick-or-treaters. I love the munchkins, especially the Lolly pop Kids. I just love everything about that movie.

[Lady Nicolette]

When I was a child, my mother was very ill and had agoraphobia, so she rarely left the house to do things with me.  She did take me to the movies the one and only time when I was about 7, we saw "Brighty of the Grand Canyon."  So that remains one of the most memorable film occasions for me.  Sweet story about one of the burros who carry tourists up and down the canyon.

Other childhood and family favorites were "The Wizard Of Oz," "Damn Yankees," "Come Back, Little Sheba," "Cool Hand Luke," "The House on Haunted Hill," "The Glass Menagerie," "To Kill A Mockingbird," "It Came From Outer Space," "The Bad Seed," (these we watched on TV) and pre-teen, "Harold and Maude," which I saw with my best friend of that year, Michelle, who shared a very developed sense of gallows humor with me.

[Charlotte Rowan]

I loved (and still do!) Lady and the Tramp, the Little Mermaid and Robin Hood[i/] (all Disney version). But I think my favorite children's movie of all time would have to be Mary Poppins[i/]. I love the scene where all the chimney sweeps come in the house and they're making everything anyone says part of their song:

"Votes for Women, step in time!"
"Aaaaahhh, step in time, Aaaaah, step in time!"
"What's all this? What's all this?"

[Lady Nicolette]

Oh yeah, how could I ever forget the mandatory viewing every time they aired of "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane" and "The Birds?"

[Welsh Wench]

My best friend Cathi and I went to see 'Island of the Blue Dolphins' about a girl stranded on a desert island with her dog.
When the dog dies, Cathi and I both looked away so we wouldn't let the other one know we were crying.
We accidently looked at each other at the same time, saw the other one crying her eyes out and then we burst out into uncontrollable laughter.

That is about all I remember about the movie. 

Except I may have had Raisinettes....

[Lady Nicolette]

We had that book as required reading in elementary school.  The young girl who was left behind was on one of the channel islands outside of my hometown of San Pedro, I believe she was on Santa Barbara Island (there is mention of Catalina Island as well, once she is found).  The dog's name was "Rontu."  I'll never forget her description of a tidal wave she endured on the island and her use of shells to make sunglasses for herself on the day that the tidal wave hit. 

Actually, it was San Nicolas Island (d'oh, how could I forget that!), she was taken to Santa Barbara when rescued, 12 years after being left behind.  Here's a wiki link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_the_Blue_Dolphins

[Welsh Wench]

It was required reading for us too, Nicolette.
It was a good book.
But then we had to read Lord of the Flies....*shudder*

[Lady Nicolette]

There was a great film made of that, as well.  I think it was a British one, if I remember correctly.  OK, apparently, it wasn't.  But it was still chillingly well done.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057261/

[Morgan Dreadlocke]

The 1950's movie Tarantula, about a giant spider that wreaks havoc on a little town, oh, and can't forget the Blob.

I remember that one, Leo G Carrol with a monobrow

The Blob is responsible for many impulse saxaphone sales.

[jinx]

When I was quite young, The Wizard of Oz, Beauty and the Beast (Disney), and Labyrinth.

I still love all three.  ^.^  The Wizard of Oz is the first movie I really remember seeing, AND the reason I adore musicals.  Labyrinth was the only thing with Muppets that -didn't- freak me out, and Beauty and the Beast...well...it was my favourite fairy tale before the movie came out, and (I'm always pleasantly surprised that) Disney's version was just -really- good.

As I got a little older, Clueless, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and The Emperor's New Groove.  My best friend and I would watch the first two over and over and over.  It was pretty ridiculous...I still have them memorised.  xD  As for the third, it was the only movie my best friend and I watched in a theatre without getting up one single time.  That probably had to do more with what we had done the night before, but that still made it memorable.

As a weird fact, I'm probably the only person I know that prefers the remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  It's a pretty simple reason, though.  I've never seen the original all the way through because I'm terrified of the Oompa Loompas.  xD

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

A movie I loved when I was a child was "Misty," based on the book "Misty of Chincoteague."  It was about a boy and a girl who saved enough money to buy one of the ponies from the island of Chincoteague on the Eastern shore.  I think that's where I got my love of horses when I was young.

Another movie with a profound effect on me -- but a bad one -- was Bambi.  I must have been 3 or 4 when I saw it.  I can't remember the movie, only the scene of the forest on fire, and somebody died.  I have blocked it from my mind, but I have always been petrified of fire since then, even as an adult.  It probably didn't help that our clothes drier caught on fire almost 2 years ago, and we had 3 fire trucks at the house.

[Baron Doune]

When I was a kid we had this guy called Dr. Max.

On Sat mornings he would host a theater thing downtown.

For six rc cola bottle caps you could get in free.

So you'd have around 500 kids high on a sugar watching Tarzan, Three Musketeers movies, including cartoons before hand.  Lot's of cheering the good guy.

[BubbleWright]

I would have to list 5 movies as my childhood favorites. As I lived just down the block from my neighborhood theater, on Saturdays and Sundays I lived at the cinema. At age 5 I watched "The War of the Worlds" (1953) and it scared the bejeepers out of me. "The Glenn Miller Story" (1953) began my love of Big Band music- I made my mom buy me 45's of re-released Miller music. Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1954) had it all- action, adventure and a really neat submarine. Although I didn't understand all that was going on, the movie "Picnic" (1955) was firmly embedded in my mind with the music (Moonglow-Picnic theme) and the helicopter shot of the freight train and bus leaving the town. Last but not least is "Forbidden Planet" (1956) with its "space cruisers", monsters from the Id and, of course, Robby the Robot. Yes, I'm a certified movie buff, with over 400 DVDs in my collection.

[Leyla]

The Princess Bride, Labyrinth, Goonies.  Three old favorites I own and watch over and over.

Guaranteed tear jerker "The Man in the Moon," with Reese Witherspoon.  Get out the kleenex if you decide to watch this one.