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Follow me, boys! / Walt Disney Productions ; screenplay by Louis Pelletier ; directed by Norman Tokar.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 33579 | Disney DVDLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: Spanish Series: Disney DVDPublication details: Burbank, CA : Disney DVD : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertaiment, 2004.Edition: FullscreenDescription: 1 videodisc (approximately 133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 0788851233
  • 9780788851230
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Co-producer, Winston Hibler.
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Lillian Gish, Charlie Ruggles, Elliott Reid, Kurt Russell, Luana Patten, Ken Murray.Summary: Lem Siddons decides to put down roots after one too many years on the road with a ramshackle jazz band. He marries his sweetheart Vida Downey, and becomes a scoutmaster.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD FAMILY Follow m Available 33111009483781
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Follow Me, Boys!, Disney's paean to the Boys Scouts of America, leaves no cliché unturned: we're even offered the old reliable "kid hanging over cliff by rope" bit. Corny, sentimental and obvious though it may be, the film is a delight to watch, especially whenever Fred MacMurray dominates the screen. MacMurray plays Lem Siddons, a 1930s musician who decides to settle down in a small Midwestern town. Here he meets pretty bank teller Vida Downey (Vera Miles), who bemoans the fact that the local boys have no organized activities with which to occupy their time. Volunteering to be a scoutmaster, Lem begins a local scout troop. There are some tense moments when banker Ralph Hastings (Elliot Reid) demands that Lem's scouts vacate their headquarters, but Reid's feisty millionaire Aunt Hetty (Lillian Gish) comes to the rescue. The film's throughline is the regeneration of local "tough kid" Whitey (Kurt Russell), who, after joining the Boy Scouts, straightens out and matures into a solid citizen. The film's lachrymose climax is kept "honest" by the sincere underplaying of Fred MacMurray. Though lambasted by reviewers, Follow Me, Boys! struck a responsive chord with filmgoers, to the tune of a $5.5 million box-office take. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

DVD, region 1; mono., Dolby digital.

Soundtrack in English; Spanish subtitles available; closed-captioned.

Title from disc surface.

Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Lillian Gish, Charlie Ruggles, Elliott Reid, Kurt Russell, Luana Patten, Ken Murray.

Co-producer, Winston Hibler.

Based on the book, God and my country, by MacKinlay Kantor.

Videodisc release of the 1966 motion picture.

Rated G.

Lem Siddons decides to put down roots after one too many years on the road with a ramshackle jazz band. He marries his sweetheart Vida Downey, and becomes a scoutmaster.

Special features: "Follow me, boys!" gallery; Looking back with Lem's boys.

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