The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics

When you're really feeling beat, that's the time to lift your feet...

Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Alexander Clarke, Joe Flynn, Alan Hewitt, Debbie Paine, William Schallert, and Frank Welker in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)

Paul Lynde, William Demarest, Tommy Kirk, Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Charles Ruggles, Ed Wynn, and Charlie in Son of Flubber (1962)

Lesley Ann Warren, Greer Garson, Hermione Baddeley, Joyce Bulifant, Gladys Cooper, John Davidson, Fred MacMurray, Geraldine Page, and Tommy Steele in The Happiest Millionaire (1967)

Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, and Suzanne Pleshette in Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

Annette Funicello, Tim Considine, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk, Fred MacMurray, Roberta Shore, and Shaggy in The Shaggy Dog (1959)

Susan Hampshire and Peter McEnery in The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966)

Roddy McDowall, Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, and Syn Cat in That Darn Cat! (1965)

Fred MacMurray in The Absent Minded Professor (1961)

Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette in The Ugly Dachshund (1966)

Roddy McDowall and Mike Mazurki in The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)

Kurt Russell and Fred MacMurray in Follow Me, Boys! (1966)

Kurt Russell, Fred MacMurray, and Sean McClory in Follow Me, Boys! (1966)

Kurt Russell and Sean McClory in Follow Me, Boys! (1966)

Fred MacMurray in Follow Me, Boys! (1966)

Kurt Russell, Rickey Kelman, Fred MacMurray, and Dean Moray in Follow Me, Boys! (1966)

Kurt Russell and Vera Miles in Follow Me, Boys! (1966)

Fred MacMurray

Vera Miles

Lillian Gish

Louis Pelletier

MacKinlay Kantor

A man settles down in a small town and becomes the scoutmaster.

Norman Tokar

Follow Me, Boys!

This Town Has To Have a Boy Scout Troop

One of Walt Disney&apos;s best feature films from the Sixties, Follow Me Boys is a two hour tribute to the Boy Scouts and to one man&apos;s dedication to them. And the odd thing is that Fred MacMurray got into Scouting for the most basic of all human reasons.

Fred MacMurray arrives at this whistle stop of a Midwest town while with a traveling band in the Roaring Twenties. He&apos;s frustrated both trying to study law and play the saxophone for Ken Murray&apos;s band. On an impulse he&apos;s so taken with the town that he makes a decision right there to stay. He sees a help wanted sign in the window of Charlie Ruggles general store and Ruggles hires him right there. And of course there&apos;s the sight of Vera Miles working at the bank across the street that really makes him want to stay.

In fact at a town meeting MacMurray suggests that a Scout Troop be formed as an activity for the kids. When Elliott Reid who is Miles&apos;s boss at the bank and MacMurray&apos;s rival demurs saying he doesn&apos;t have the time to be a Scoutmaster, MacMurray moves right on in, mainly to make an impression with Miles.

After that the Scouts become his life and MacMurray like George Bailey in It&apos;s A Wonderful Life becomes the leading citizen of that town. He&apos;s the moulder of the youth and biggest influence on their character. And in one case he and Miles become foster parents to Kurt Russell and save him from what would have been a dissolute life.

There&apos;s a little bit of Boys Town in this film because there aren&apos;t any really bad boys here as Father Flanagan opined. But the main influence on this film adapted from a MacKinley Kantor story is Goodbye Mr. Chips. MacMurray does everything, but teach school for them.

Best scenes are when the kids are trapped in some army war games and through Boy Scout ingenuity come through it just fine.

Follow Me Boys gives Fred MacMurray one of his best roles in a Disney feature and it holds up well for today&apos;s audience.

One of Walt Disney's best feature films from the Sixties, Follow Me Boys is a two hour tribute to the Boy Scouts and to one man's dedication to them. And the odd thing is that Fred MacMurray got into Scouting for the most basic of all human reasons.

Fred MacMurray arrives at this whistle stop of a Midwest town while with a traveling band in the Roaring Twenties. He's frustrated both trying to study law and play the saxophone for Ken Murray's band. On an impulse he's so taken with the town that he makes a decision right there to stay. He sees a help wanted sign in the window of Charlie Ruggles general store and Ruggles hires him right there. And of course there's the sight of Vera Miles working at the bank across the street that really makes him want to stay.

In fact at a town meeting MacMurray suggests that a Scout Troop be formed as an activity for the kids. When Elliott Reid who is Miles's boss at the bank and MacMurray's rival demurs saying he doesn't have the time to be a Scoutmaster, MacMurray moves right on in, mainly to make an impression with Miles.

After that the Scouts become his life and MacMurray like George Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life becomes the leading citizen of that town. He's the moulder of the youth and biggest influence on their character. And in one case he and Miles become foster parents to Kurt Russell and save him from what would have been a dissolute life.

There's a little bit of Boys Town in this film because there aren't any really bad boys here as Father Flanagan opined. But the main influence on this film adapted from a MacKinley Kantor story is Goodbye Mr. Chips. MacMurray does everything, but teach school for them.

Best scenes are when the kids are trapped in some army war games and through Boy Scout ingenuity come through it just fine.

Follow Me Boys gives Fred MacMurray one of his best roles in a Disney feature and it holds up well for today's audience.

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