Hayley Mills Archives

In Search of the Castaways (1962)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 2, 2006Jules Verne Adventure

Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea created a fad for Jules Verne adaptations throughout the 1950s/60s. Disney returned to Verne in this colourfully absurd adventure with children on a globe-spanning hunt for their missing father

Director: Robert Stevenson

Actors: Hayley Mills, Wilfrid Hyde White, Maurice Chevalier, Michael Anderson Jr, …

Category: Fantasy

2 April 200616 April 2026 by Roog

Twisted Nerve (1968)

Rating: ★★

Aug 4, 2020Psycho Film

A film clearly influenced by Psycho with Hywel Bennett as a disturbed young man with a mother fixation. The film caused some controversy at the time for its wholly unscientific linking of psychopathology and Down's Syndrome

Director: Roy Boulting

Actors: Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Billie Whitelaw, Barry Foster, …

Category: Horror

4 August 202012 October 2020 by Roog

A Troll in Central Park (1994)

Rating: ★

May 4, 2008Animation/Troll's Adventures in Human Civilisation

Incredibly insipid animated film from Don Bluth about a kind-hearted troll that relocates to Central Park. This feels like a wannabe Disney film that is merely going through the moves.

Director: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman

Actors: Dom de Luise, Philip Glasser, Cloris Leachman, Charles Nelson-Reilly, …

Category: Fantasy

4 May 20089 June 2026 by Roog