A magic nanny named Mary Poppins comes to work for a cold banker’s unhappy family. Embarking on a series of fantastical adventures with Mary and her Cockney performer friend, Bert (Dick Van Dyke), the siblings try to pass on some of their nanny’s sunny attitude to their preoccupied parents.
The movie concerns the adventures of Sentient Vehicle Herbie, a ’63 lovable Volkswagen Beetle with a mind and heart of its own. Out of gratitude, Herbie enables the luckless good guy to win one race after another.
Set in wartime England, Eglantine Price is a would-be witch who hopes to use her newly acquired conjuring powers to forestall a Nazi invasion. Saddled with three surly kids who’ve been evacuated from London, Lansbury wins over her charges by performing various and sundry feats of magic. And, yes, she manages to foil a few Germans […]
The film tells the story of Darby O’Gill, a wily old codger, who matches wits with the king of the leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and a dashing younger man who has replaced him as caretaker.