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The Swamp Fox: Starring Leslie Nielsen
This was a classic Disney at its best!
Set during the American Revolutionary War about a grupp of guerrilla soldiers who each week battle against the English conventional forces. Based on the exploits of South Carolina guerrilla leader Francis Marion,also known as The Swamp Fox. The series starred Leslie Nielsen as Francis Marion. Originally ran on ABC-TV as part of the weekly series "Disneyland" that aired from until The series produced eight episodes. These original episodes were basically produced,marketed and filmed in color,but ABC-TV otherwise telecast this series in black and white,but would however be telecast in color later on when Disney moved there series over to NBC-TV in as part of "The Wonderful World of Disney" when the series were aired as repeated episodes for most of the mid's and throughout part of the 's.
The series ranks up of their with the best of the "Disneyland"
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“A Story Without End” Walt Disney and the Johnny Tremain Movie
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The Johnny Tremain Movie
In , Disney released the Johnny Tremain movie, a live-action adventure starring Hal Stalmaster and directed by Robert Stevenson—later to helm Mary Poppins (). Based on the fiction novel by Esther Forbes, it told the story of a teenage Boston silversmith who becomes caught up in the American Revolution—meeting Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, among others, and participating in the Boston Tea Party and battles at Lexington and Concord.
“[My father] remembered and carefully noted every book that I ever read and enjoyed,” Diane explained to journalist Pete Martin around the time of Tremain’s production. “He bought several of them. Johnny Tremain is one… It’s a story of the Revolution and it’s just wonderful, about a young boy, very well-written for a children’s book… Daddy doesn’t think anything could be more exciting than American history.”
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The Swamp Fox (TV series)
American television series
| The Swamp Fox | |
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| Production company | Walt Disney Studios |
| Release | October 23, &#;()&#;– January 16, &#;() |
The Swamp Fox is a television miniseries produced by Walt Disney Studios and starring Leslie Nielsen as American Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion.[1][2] The show was based on the book Swamp Fox: The Life and Campaigns of General Francis Marion by Robert D. Bass.[3]
The theme song ("Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, tail on his hat"[4]) was sung by Nielsen as well.[5]Myron Healey played Marion's top aide, Maj./Col. Peter Horry. One of the Swamp Fox's adversaries was Colonel Banastre Tarleton, played by John Sutton. Patrick Macnee played a British captain, Tim Considine played Marion's nephew Gabe Marion and Slim Pickens played Plunkett, one of the Swamp Fox's men. Hal Stalmaster appeared in three of the eight episodes as "Gwynn." J. Pat O'Malley played a British