Movies in the Great Movie Ride

[Kairi_7378]

One of the things that DH and I wanted to do before our trip is to watch all of the movies in the Great Movie Ride. We were having a hard time remembering all of the movies, though. Can anyone help with our list? We remembered:
Casablanca
Wizard of Oz
Mary Poppins
Tarzan
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Singing in the Rain
Alien
:popcorn: :popcorn:

[faline]

Are you only speaking about the vignettes that you ride through or the scenes at the end?

Gone With the Wind
Rocky
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Fantasia

These are the ones that come to mind at this moment though I know there are more.

[SBETigg]

The gangster scene has Cagney's Public Enemy. Not sure about the Western scene, but there's Clint Eastwood and John Wayne involved.

Also:
Busby Berkeley's Footlight Parade.

I can't think of any others.

[VWL Mom]

Also at the end

Good Morning Vietnam
Tootsie
Arthur
The Way We were
The 3 Stooges
Godfather?

[Fangorn]

Don't forget Fantasia.

Steve

[ibelieveindisneymagic]

From the ride itself (not the montage at the end) I think you have it all, except that the Western scene is based on A Fistful of Dollars and The Searchers.

What a great way to help pass the time before a trip!

[TinkerbellT421]

I don't know the name of it, but isn't there one with Shirley Temple? I vaguely remember her in a scene tap dancing?

[azcavalier]

The Searchers is the John Wayne scene. My wife and I decided to watch it. We thought it was one of the worst movies we've ever seen....

[Mousemates]

The Searchers is the John Wayne scene. My wife and I decided to watch it. We thought it was one of the worst movies we've ever seen....

Really? :) the Searchers is one of my all time favorites and is actually loosely based upon the real life story of Cynthia Ann Parker who was abducted by Comanche Indians from the family home in Texas. One of the children she would bear would be Quanah (Parker) who would actually go on to be one of the last of the great Comanche war chiefs. For those with interests in such things, an interesting read on the subject is S.C. Gwynnes "Empire of the Summer Moon." Oh well, we all have different tastes...but of the movies in the ride i think mine would be "Footlight Parade."

[azcavalier]

Really? :) the Searchers is one of my all time favorites and is actually loosely based upon the real life story of Cynthia Ann Parker who was abducted by Comanche Indians from the family home in Texas. One of the children she would bear would be Quanah (Parker) who would actually go on to be one of the last of the great Comanche war chiefs. For those with interests in such things, an interesting read on the subject is S.C. Gwynnes "Empire of the Summer Moon." Oh well, we all have different tastes...but of the movies in the ride i think mine would be "Footlight Parade."

I think it was the combination of the acting being over-dramatic (as was common during that time), and the cliched characters, along with the fact that the movie really drags on and on. And Natalie Wood, billed as one of the stars, is only in the movie for about two minutes at the end. She plays almost no role whatsoever.

Don't get me wrong, I love Westerns...including older movies. But I've seen a few John Wayne movies, and I just don't like them. Steve McQueen, now, is a different story. As is Clint Eastwood.

[SandmanGStefani24]

Also at the end

Good Morning Vietnam
Tootsie
Arthur
The Way We were
The 3 Stooges
Godfather?

Beverly Hills Cop and Trading Places

[Jared]

First of all, I love that idea!

Here is a list of films from the attraction to the best of my knowledge:

Preshow trailers and/or main attraction
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" by Steven Spielberg
"Alien" by Ridley Scott
"The Searchers" by John Ford
"Fantasia" (no director credited)
"Footlight Parade" by Lloyd Bacon
"Singin' in the Rain" by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
"Mary Poppins" by Robert Stevenson
"The Public Enemy" by William A. Wellman
"A Fistful of Dollars" by Sergio Leone
"Tarzan the Ape Man" by W.S. Van Dyke
"Casablanca" by Michael Curtiz
"The Wizard of Oz" by Victor Fleming

Finale film
"Star Wars" by George Lucas
"The Godfather" by Francis Ford Coppola
"The Godfather Part II" by Francis Ford Coppola
"Taxi Driver" by Martin Scorsese
"Beverly Hills Cop" by Martin Brest
"Ben-Hur" by William Wyler
"Shakespeare in Love" by John Madden
"Finding Nemo" by Andrew Stanton
"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" by Gore Verbinski
"A Streetcar Named Desire" by Elia Kazan
"2001: A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick
"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" by Nicholas Meyer
"Airplane!" by Jim Abrahams and David Zucker
"The Karate Kid" by John G. Avildsen
"North By Northwest" by Alfred Hitchcock
"Sunset Boulevard" by Billy Wilder
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" by Robert Zemeckis
"The Jazz Singer" by Alan Crosland
"Lady and the Tramp" by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske
"Pearl Harbor" by Michael Bay
"The Ten Commandments" by Cecil B. DeMille
"Young Frankenstein" by Mel Brooks
"Blazing Saddles" by Mel Brooks
"The Terminator" by James Cameron
"Citizen Kane" by Orson Welles
"It's a Wonderful Life" by Frank Capra
"Malcolm X" by Spike Lee
"Unforgiven" by Clint Eastwood
"Apocalypse Now" by Francis Ford Coppola
"Armageddon" by Michael Bay
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" by Howard Hawks
"Tootsie" by Sydney Pollack
"Top Gun" by Tony Scott
"The Cure" by Charlie Chaplin
"The Birth of a Nation" by D.W. Griffith
"The Rink" by Charlie Chaplin
"Shanghai Knights" by David Dobkin
"True Grit" by Henry Hathaway
"Wuthering Heights" by William Wyler
"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Ford
"Jailhouse Rock" by Richard Thorpe
"Behind the Screen" by Charlie Chaplin
"The Great Train Robbery" by Edwin S. Porter
"The Kiss" by Ulysses Davis
"Wings" by William A. Wellman
"Show Boat" by George Sidney
"42nd Street" by Lloyd Bacon
"Dirty Dancing" by Emile Ardolino
"Grease" by Randal Kelsier
"Sister Act" by Emile Ardolino
"Yankee Doodle Dandy" by Michael Curtiz
"Jailhouse Rock" by Richard Thorpe
"Chicago" by Rob Marshall
"Babes in Arms" by Busby Berkeley
"Cabin in the Sky" by Vincente Minnelli
"A Nightmare on Elm Street" by Wes Craven
"King Kong" by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" by David Hand
"Anchors Aweigh" by George Sidney
"Cops" by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
"Saturday Night Fever" by John Badham
"Take the Money and Run" by Woody Allen
"Down and Out in Beverly Hills" by Paul Mazursky
"A Plumbing We Will Go" by Del Lord
"Arthur" by Steve Gordon
"Bright Eyes" by David Butler
"Three Men and a Baby" by Leonard Nimoy
"A Night at the Opera" by Sam Wood
"Broadcast News" by James L. Brooks
"Arsenic and Old Lace" by Frank Capra
"The Live Ghost" by Charles Rogers
"Trading Places" by John Landis
"The French Connection" by William Friedkin
"San Francisco" by Woody Van Dyke
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" by George Roy Hall
"Never Say Never Again" by Irvin Kershner
"Rambo: First Blood Part II" by George P. Cosmatos
"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" directed by Andrew Adamson
"The Absent-Minded Professor" by Robert Stevenson
"Platoon" by Oliver Stone
"The Bridge on the River Kwai" by David Lean
"Amadeus" by Milos Forman
"Chariots of Fire" by Hugh Hudson
"10" by Blake Edwards
"Funny Girl" by William Wyler
"Giant" by George Stevens
"Pal Joey" George Sidney
"Adam's Rib" by George Cukor
"Gone with the Wind" by Victor Fleming
"From Here to Eternity" by Fred Zinnemann
"Notorious" by Alfred Hitchcock
"The Way We Were" by Sydney Pollack
"Grand Hotel" by Edmund Goulding
"Queen Christina" by Rouben Mamoulian
"A Place in the Sun" by George Stevens
"Stagecoach" by John Ford
"Klute" by Alan J. Pakula
"Roman Holiday" by William Wyler
"Gilda" by Charles Vidor
"Hud" by Martin Ritt
"Good Morning, Vietnam" by Barry Levinson
"All About Eve" by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
"Lawrence of Arabia" by David Lean
"Doctor Zhivago" by David Lean
"Thelma and Louise" by Ridley Scott
"High Noon" by Fred Zinnemann
"Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" by Joe Johnston
"Lassie Come Home" by Fred M. Wilcox
"Patton" by Franklin J. Schaffner
"Forrest Gump" by Robert Zemeckis
"The Sound of Music" by Robert Wise

(Hat tip to Studios Central and Wikipedia for assistance)

[cer]

Jared, you rock! :thumbsup:

[Kenny1113]

This is a great idea!

What a list!

[VWL Mom]

Great list, thanks Jared!

[Jared]

Great list, thanks Jared!
Clearly, I had some time to kill at work last night.

[MCeee]

Haaaa! Great!... and hopefully the OP has some time to kill between now and their trip. Whew. What a list!

[IamBelle]

Great list! I'm also trying to do this...but there is no way I could watch ALL those by August!!

[PirateLover]

Just a little FYI, TCM is celebrating the 60th Anniversary of "Singing in the Rain" with special showings in select theaters across the country on July 12, courtesy of Fathom Events. I will be going with my mom as it is one of my all time favorite movies!

[Kairi_7378]

Wow, thanks for the help! I think I'll feel like I met my goal if I manage to watch all of the main ride ones. (I think I'd have to plan for a trip for next year to be able to get everything on Jared's list. Hmmm.... excuse to plan next trip?)

[Kairi_7378]

Just a little FYI, TCM is celebrating the 60th Anniversary of "Singing in the Rain" with special showings in select theaters across the country on July 12, courtesy of Fathom Events. I will be going with my mom as it is one of my all time favorite movies!

Thanks for posting this. I am going to send this information to my cousin since it is her favorite movie!

[Jared]

Just a little FYI, TCM is celebrating the 60th Anniversary of "Singing in the Rain" with special showings in select theaters across the country on July 12, courtesy of Fathom Events. I will be going with my mom as it is one of my all time favorite movies!
Thanks for the reminder on this, Maryanne. "Singin' in the Rain" is my all-time favorite movie.

[texas211]

The Searchers is the John Wayne scene. My wife and I decided to watch it. We thought it was one of the worst movies we've ever seen....

Blasphemy.

[Jared]

Blasphemy.
If "The Searchers" is the worst movie they've ever seen, they must be watching some pretty extraordinary movies.

(I'm with you on this one, texas211. It's brilliant.)