Tommy Kirk Archives

The Shaggy Dog (1959)

Rating: ★★

Mar 7, 2005Teenager Transforms Into a Dog/Disney Comedy

The first of Disney's live-action comedies, a comic variant on the werewolf story with Tommy Kirk turning into a dog. Mildly amusing but later efforts would do this type of comedy better

Director: Charles Barton

Actors: Tommy Kirk, Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Cecil Kellaway, …

Category: Fantasy

7 March 200513 March 2025 by Roog

The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 9, 1999Anti-Gravity Rubber/Disney Comedy

One of the inspired delights from Disney's live-action era, a hit that became the template for their subsequent live-action films. The scenes with flying vehicles and basketball teams are entirely charming.

Director: Robert Stevenson

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Nancy Olson, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 April 199921 November 2025 by Roog

Babes in Toyland (1961)

Rating: ★★

May 6, 1999Fairytale Adventures

The Disney musical version of a story that takes place among the denizens of fairytale. Some visual nonsense but the film dies a slow lumbering death amid the sugary sentiment

Director: Jack Donohue

Actors: Annette Funicello, Ray Bolger, Ed Wynn, Tommy Kirk

Category: Fantasy

6 May 19996 September 2025 by Roog

Son of Flubber (1963)

Rating: ★★

Jun 1, 2015Absent-Minded Professor Sequel

Sequel to Disney's The Absent-Minded Professor that only unimaginatively shuffles around the same elements and lacks the inspired touch of the first film

Director: Robert Stevenson

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Tommy Kirk, Keenan Wynn, Nancy Olson, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 June 20151 January 2023 by Roog

Pajama Party (1964)

Rating: ★★

Jul 31, 2024Beach Party Comedy with Martian Visitor

One of the popular Beach Party comedies of the 1960s. Tommy Kirk turns up as a bumbling Martian to romance Annette Funicello

Director: Don Weis

Actors: Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Elsa Lanchester, Buster Keaton, …

Category: Science Fiction

31 July 202413 November 2025 by Roog

The Monkey’s Uncle (1965)

Rating: ★★

Mar 5, 1999Teenage Inventor/Disney Comedy

One of the wacky inventor live-action comedies Disney made in the 1960s, a sequel to The Misadventures of Merlin Jones where Tommy Kirk variously adopts a chimpanzee and tries to sleep-coach football jocks

Director: Robert Stevenson

Actors: Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames, Leon Tyler, …

Category: Science Fiction

5 March 19993 December 2025 by Roog

Village of the Giants (1965)

Rating: ★★

Sep 2, 2003Giant Teenagers Amok

Bert I. Gordon, who spent most of his career making giant animal and people films, makes a film about giant rock'n'rolling teenagers. Supposedly adapted from a novel by H.G. Wells

Director: Bert I. Gordon

Actors: Tommy Kirk, Beau Bridges, Ron Howard, Joseph Turkel

Category: Science Fiction

2 September 20037 June 2026 by Roog

Mars Needs Women (1966)

Rating: ★

Aug 8, 1999Alien Invasion

Larry Buchanan was a low-budget director whose cheapness easily equaled Edward D. Wood, Jr. This alien invasion effort features Tommy Kirk come to Earth to procure women for repopulation purposes

Director: Larry Buchanan

Actors: Tommy Kirk, Yvonne Craig, Cal Duggan, Warren Hammack

Category: Science Fiction

8 August 199911 August 2026 by Roog

It’s Alive! (1969)

Rating: ★★½

Jun 19, 2001Backwoods Sadist/Prehistoric Creature

Larry Buchanan is a director on a par with Edward D. Wood Jr. This, not to be confused with the 1974 killer baby film, is his best film. Buchanan creates a perverse obsessiveness that is fascinating to watch

Director: Larry Buchanan

Actors: Tommy Kirk, Corveth Ousterhouse, Bill Thurman

Category: Horror

19 June 20015 May 2026 by Roog

Blood of Ghastly Horror (1972)

Rating: ★

Feb 5, 2001Monster Amok

Film from Z-budget director Al Adamson that has been slung together from odds and ends of other unfinished films in a laughable ramshackle structure where what starts as a diamond robbery film turns into mad scientist/monster film

Director: Al Adamson

Actors: John Carradine, Tommy Kirk, Regina Carrol, Roy Morton, …

Category: Horror

5 February 20016 June 2024 by Roog

Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfolds (1995)

Rating: ★★

Apr 21, 2013Attack of the 50 Foot Woman Spoof

Fred Olen Ray offers up a bimbo movie take on Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. Where the original was an early feminist parable, Olen Ray offers up a giant woman whose only motivation is wanting a bigger set of breasts

Director: Fred Olen Ray

Actors: J.J. North, John LaZar, Ted Monte, Tim Abell, Jay Richardson, …

Category: Science Fiction

21 April 201320 November 2025 by Roog