An American Tail 1986  G, 80 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Comedy / Drama
Director: Don Bluth
Cast: Phillip Glasser, Dom DeLuise, Nehemiah Persoff, Madeline Kahn, Erica Yohn, Amy Green, Christopher Plummer, John Finnegan, Hal Smith, Pat Musick, Will Ryan, Cathianne Blore, Neil Ross
In Steven Spielberg's first animated film, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his immigrant family while voyaging to the United States in the late 19th century. The many hardships that Fievel goes through may bother young children, but all turns out OK by film's end.
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 Beauty and the Beast 1991  G, 85 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Cast: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury, David Ogden Stiers, Rex Everhart, Richard White, Jesse Corti, Jo Anne Worley, Mary Kay Bergman, Bradley Pierce, Hal Smith, Tony Jay
The animation of this popular fairy tale is a highlight of this Disney film. It is the story of beautiful young Belle (voice of Paige (O'Hara) who is forced to live with a Beast (voice of Robby Benson). She learns to look beneath the surface of another and discovers a gentle kindness hidden behind the beast's gruff exterior. The song "Beauty and the Beast" won an Academy Award as did the musical score. The film was also nominated for Best Picture.
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Fantastic Planet 1973  PG, 72 min.
Genre: Animation / Sci-Fi
Director: Rene Laloux
Cast: Barry Bostwick, Marvin Miller, Olan Soule, Cynthia Alder, Nora Heflin, Hal Smith, Mark Gruner, Monika Ramirez, Janet Waldo
In this French film (dubbed in English), humans are mere tiny pets to a super-intelligent race on the planet of Ygam. Then a boy who had become smart while being a pet for a family leads a revolt.
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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 1977 G, 72 min.
Genre: Family
Director: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman
Cast: Sterling Holloway, Paul Winchell, Sebastian Cabot, Junius Matthews, Howard Morris, Ralph Wright, Clint Howard, Jon Walmsley, Barbara Luddy, John Fiedler, Hal Smith
Pooh and his friends romp through adventures in Hundred Acre Wood in this delightful film based on A.A. Milne's stories of the Pooh bear. This film is actually three different short films made in the 1960s and 1970s spliced together. One of these shorts, "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day," had previously won an Oscar.
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Shinbone Alley 1971 G, 83 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Comedy / Musical
Director: John D. Wilson
Cast: Carol Channing, Eddie Bracken, Alan Reed, John Carradine, Hal Smith, Ken Sansom, Joan Gerber, Sal Delano
This animated musical was adapted by Mel Brooks from Don Marquis' stories about a very literate writer, Archy (voice of Eddie Bracken), who happens to be a cockroach and Mehitabel (voice of Carol Channing) the not-so-good cat who is prone to trouble and claims to have been Cleopatra in an earlier life.
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The Three Stooges Meet Hercules 1962  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward Bernds
Cast: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Vicki Trickett, Quinn K. Redeker, George N. Neise, Emil Sitka, Hal Smith, John Cliff, Lewis Charles
The Three Stooges go back in time when they meet characters from Greek mythology including the hero Ulysses, the one-eyed Argo, and the weak-healed Achilles.
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| 1. An American Tail (1986)
2. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
3. Fantastic Planet (1973)
4. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
5. Shinbone Alley (1971)
6. The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1962)
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