Movies by John McLeish

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled motor car. This desire for the very latest lands him in much trouble with the wrong crowd, and it is up to his friends, Mole, Rat and Badger to save him from himself. - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Retelling of Washington Irving's story set in a tiny New England town. Ichabod Crane, the new schoolmaster, falls for the town beauty, Katrina Van Tassel, and the town Bully Brom Bones...

Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy

Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy

This generous collection includes 46 of the 48 shorts that starred Goofy between 1939 and 1961 (but none of the great Mickey-Donald-Goofy films from the mid-'30s). The "How to Ride a Horse" sequence in The Reluctant Dragon (1941) set the pattern for many of these cartoons. An elegant narrator (artist John Ployardt) explains a sport that Goofy attempts to demonstrate. The character that animator Art Babbitt described in a 1935 lecture (quoted in the DVD bonus material) as an easygoing dimbulb gave way to an enthusiastic but spectacularly mala...

The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall

The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall

Three fun-loving, morally upright brothers from Pimento University save their fiancée from their fiendish archenemy, Dan Backslide, in this spoof of the Rover Boys.

How to Be a Sailor

How to Be a Sailor

Goofy provides a history of ships and sailing.

How to Fish

How to Fish

Goofy's demonstration of fishing is fouled up by his clumsy casting and fly fishing, and problems with his boat.

The Ducktators

The Ducktators

A wartime cartoon that satirizes the Axis leaders of World War II.

Simple Siren

Simple Siren

A homely mermaid tries to get a stranded sailor all to herself.

Professor Small and Mr. Tall

Professor Small and Mr. Tall

Small and Tall break a mirror on a train trip and their seven years of bad luck start immediately. Stranded by an accident, they have trouble in a ghost town and finally are lost in the desert. The mirror saves them when they piece it back together, and everything is okay until they break the mirror again and their troubles start anew.

Carnival Courage

Carnival Courage

Willoughby Wren gets a job at a circus and, with the help of this magic hat, saves the circus from an escaped gorilla.