Follow Me, Boys!

Director: Norman Tokar Norman Tokar

Overview

"Norman Tokar's 1966 live-action family feature Follow Me, Boys! comes to DVD for the first time from Walt Disney Home Video. The film is presented with a standard full-frame transfer with Dolby Digital Mono sound in English. Spanish subtitles and English closed captions are accessible. Special features include a photo gallery and the featurette ""Looking Back With Lem's Boys."""

Product Details

Release Date:	02/03/2004
UPC:	0786936233681
Original Release:	1966
Rating:	G
Source:	Walt Disney Video
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	2:13:00
Sales rank:	12,787

Special Features

Closed Caption;"Follow Me, Boys!" gallery; "Looking Back With Lem's Boys" featurette; Spanish subtitles

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Fred MacMurray	Lemuel Siddons
Vera Miles	Vida Downey
Lillian Gish	Hetty Seibert
Charlie Ruggles	John Everett Hughes
Elliott Reid	Ralph Hastings
Kurt Russell	Whitey
Luana Patten	Nora White
Ken Murray	Melody Murphy
Donald May	Edward White Jr.
Sean McClory	Edward White Sr.
Steve Franken	P.O.W. Lieutenant
Parley Baer	Mayor Hi Plommer
William Reynolds	Hoodoo Henderson as a Man
Craig Hill	Leo, as a Man
Tol Avery	Dr. Ferris
Willis Bouchey	Judge,Judge
John Zaremba	Ralph's Lawyer
Madge Blake	Cora Anderson
Carl Reindel	Tank Captain
Hank Brandt	Frankie Martin, as a Man
Richard Bakalyan	Umpire
Tim McIntire	Corporal
Willie Soo Hoo	Quong Lee, as a Man
Tony Regan	Hetty's Lawyer
Robert B. Williams	Artie,P.O.W. Sergeant
Jimmy Murphy	P.O.W. Soldier
Dean Moray	Hoodoo Henderson
Bill Booth	Leo
Keith Taylor	Beefy Smith
Ricky Kelman	Frankie Martin
Gregg Shank	Mickey Doyle
Donnie Carter	Red
Kit Lloyd	Oliver
Ronnie Dapo	Tiger
Dennis Rush	Jimmy
Kevin Burchett	Eggy
Eddie Sallia	Harry
Bill 'Wahoo' Mills	David
Warren Hsieh	Quong Lee
Duane Chase	Joe
Mike Dodge	Phil
Gregor Vigen	Ronnie Larsen
Michael Flatley	Scout
Sherwood Ball	Scout
Colyer Dupont	Scout at Cliff
Dean Bradshaw	Scouts in War Game
Chris Mason	Scouts in War Game
Johnny Bangert	Scouts in War Game
David Bailey	Duke

Technical Credits

Walt Disney	Producer
Winston Hibler	Producer
Eustace Lycett	Special Effects
Norman Tokar	Director

Editorial Reviews

Sometimes sloppy sentimentality can have a strange kind of appeal; case in point: Follow Me, Boys! There's hardly a moment on the screen that isn't filled with the kind of overt heart-tugging corn that Disney made its live-action stock-in-trade for a number of years. Added on to the corn is a thick layer of syrupy sweetness that's practically palpable. Anyone with even a slight understanding of cinematic structure can predict with deadly accuracy where the film is headed from moment to moment, and the character clichés are so abundant as to be stifling. Yet, as obvious and manipulative as all this is, Boys somehow works. Director Norman Tokar and screenwriter Louis Pelletier seem to honestly believe in their material, and that sincerity shows up onscreen. They are helped enormously by their cast, starting with Fred MacMurray's solid performance that anchors the film as well as strong support from Vera Miles and Kurt Russell, and an especially pleasing turn from Lillian Gish. At 135 minutes, the film is clearly too long, the schmaltz factor causes it to start curdling well before the end, and modern audiences especially may find its naïveté laughable. But Boys does back a certain kind of strange punch among all it, albeit artificiality.