 | Swiss Family Robinson (Vault Disney Collection)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $13.00 All the improbabilities of the original book plus Malay pirates. Thrills and humor a-plenty.
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 | The Island at the Top of the World (30th Anniversary Edition)
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $7.69 An American specialist in the archaeology of the North is asked to help a wealthy Britisher find his missing son, and finds as well a lost Viking colony. A splendid airship, the Hyperion, is a high point.
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 | That Darn Cat!
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $7.25 D.C. Randall, Siamese sleuth, helps (or does he?) the FBI track down two bank robbers and save their hostage. This is the original version, far preferable to the remake.
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 | The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.96 McDowall shines as the veddy proper British butler who goes West in the Gold Rush of '49 and becomes a hero of the Mother Lode country.
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 | Follow Me, Boys!
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.99 Lem Siddons establishes a Boy Scout troop in the town of Hickory and through the next 25 years leads it through many adventures. A delightful picture of small-town life that may make you tear up toward the end.
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 | The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $2.51 First of a planned seven-film adaptation of C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series is destined to be a classic in its own right.
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 | Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $1.96 First of a trilogy with Depp manically delightful as Captain Jack Sparrow.
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 | Treasure Island
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $3.76 And speaking of pirates...*the* pirate juvenile of all time, with the late Robert Newton over the top as Long John Silver.
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 | Newsies (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.67 A musical based upon an actual turn-of-the-20th-century incident.
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 | The Rocketeer
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.92 A wild ride as a young barnstormer in late-1930's Hollywood tries out a back-mounted jet-pack and falls afoul of Nazi spies. Timothy Dalton does a wonderful turn as an Errol Flynn-ish villain.
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 | The Absent-Minded Professor (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.39 Ned Brainerd inadvertantly invents "flubber" and saves Medfield College from a loan shark. The flying Model T is a delight.
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