Toby Tyler
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Movie Reviews of Toby Tyler
Movie Review: Perfect Family Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
"Toby Tyler" is an excellent family movie and a rare one as well since it is suitable for every member of the family. I have watched "Toby Tyler" multiple times and find it as enjoyable now as when I first saw it as a child.
Toby Tyler (Kevin Corcoran, who was a Disney regular as a child and appeared in "Polyanna," "A Tiger Walks," and "Old Yeller," among others) is orphaned and living with his aunt and uncle. However, life is hard for Toby and he feels unloved. After his uncle makes him feel like a burden, Toby runs away to join a circus passing through town.
Toby works as a concessionaire for Mr. Tupper (Bob Sweeney, who also appeared in Disney's "Moon Pilot" and "Son of Flubber), who manages to make it appear as though he is helping Toby when he cons Toby regularly. For example, Mr. Tupper convinces Toby that he must share his tips with Mr. Tupper. Toby also finds a protector in Ben Cotter (Henry Calvin, "Babes in Toyland" and Sergeant Garcia in Disney's 1950's television series "Zorro"), who turns out to be a good friend to Toby, along with clown Sam Treat (Gene Sheldon, who also appeared in "Babes in Toyland" and "Zorro) and chimpanzee Mr. Stubbs.
Life is initially difficult for naïve Toby. He has a hard time focusing on his job and keeping food from Mr. Stubbs. Even though chaos seems to follow Toby, an opportunity arises for Toby to take center stage at the circus. Somehow things just never seem to go well for Toby, and he decides to leave the circus, but tragedy strikes. The end of this movie will bring smiles and make you want to watch this movie again in the near future.
Kevin Corcoran seemed to play the same character again and again. However, Corcoran excelled in "Pollyanna" and "Toby Tyler." Toby is an innocent in a wild world and we get an opportunity to see the world as Toby sees it. Even though Toby has some bad experiences, Toby also gets to do some very exciting things and for just a moment we can think back to an era when circuses visited smaller towns and it was common for boys to at least think about running away to join the hard life of the circus.
The marvelous thing about this movie is that it has action, excitement and humor, and yet is sufficiently tame for even the youngest members of the family. The portions of the circus that we see add to the excitement of the story. I also enjoyed how this movie ends. Though we know that life is complicated and messy, for a brief moment life is joyful and unrestrained and we can all too briefly recapture all the possibilities that exist when you are a child.
Enjoy!
Movie Review: A great story about a boy running away to a circus
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie "Toby Tyler" is a great story about a boy who thinks his Aunt and Uncle do not want him any more is a story about a boy who then decides to run away to the circus he then learns about being a concessionare as well as being a circus performer he also takes care of a Chimp who creates a lot've mischief along the way "Mr. Stubbs" and he also gets into all kinds's of excellent adventures and makes plenty of friends along the way. So this movie I highly recommend this movie to all of the family to see this is truly a movie that I know the family would really enjoy and Toby Tyler lives in a small town back in the old days, and it was always back in then a big occasion when the circus came to town and of course Toby just does not go to the circus he runs away to the circus and has some neat adventures then towards the end his Aunt and Uncle finally find him and they get to see him perform and they are so proud of him and then he knows that they really need him after all and he goes back home with them. So like I said, This movie is a great movie for the whole family to see so get this movie you will really enjoy it with the whole family.Movie Review: One of Disney's best family classics.
Summary: 5 Stars
Based on the classic children's novel, Toby Tyler is ideal material for a Disney movie. You may remember Kevin Corcoran from several other Disney classics, including Swiss Family Robinson, Old Yeller, etc. and so forth. Here he plays a young boy who runs away from home and joins the circus. The circus adventure and comedy is a bit predictable, but well played and well served by the high Disney production values with great color, stunts, etc.
My favorite part of the movie involves Toby Tyler learning to ride and do stunts standing on a horse, and they have him tied to a pole that swings around a post to follow the galloping horse. I can't describe the scene in words, you just have to see this bit of comic genius. It's worth the price of the DVD for this one segment alone.
But if that's not enough for you, you get a plethora of circus performances and exotic animals in color. Highly recommended for the whole family to watch together.
Movie Review: Adventrues of Toby Tylor
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a movie that I have been waiting for!! This is a great movie for the entire family. It is about a boy who wants to join the circus, but Mom and Dad won't hear a word of it. So Toby runs away from home to join the circus. Fall in with a crooked penut vendor who cheets him out of some of his pay. Is befreinded by an old circus clown and the strong man (both played in an tv series call " ZORO"). Toby is put in carge of a mischivious Chimpanzee, to keep him out of troubel. Learns to ride a horse in the circus after anccident happen to one of the star preformers. Tobys perents have been looking for thier lost son for a long time. When they do finialy find him, they find that he is a star in the circus. Tobys fanticy of becoming a star in the circus finally comes true.
I highly recomend this move. (personaly five stars is not enough to rate this move add 5 more stars).
Movie Review: The Monkey Has a Gun!
Summary: 5 Stars
OK, I know it's a chimp but Mr. Stubbs is one of the greatest characters in movies.
I saw this recently and it brought back a lot of joy from when I saw this as a boy nearly 50 years ago! Although in the 60s, the drama of circus life on the big screen or even on the small-screen "Wonderful World of Disney" was maybe bigger. Yet my children and even 4-year-old and 18-month-old grandsons loved this movie today - circus parades, elephants, daring bareback riders, pre-adolescent (uhm) tension (it affected me as a boy!), and of course, the scene-stealing Mr. Stubbs.
I don't want to spoil it if you haven't seen it, but Mr. Stubbs has a great scene with a loaded 45 . . .