Originally Posted By oc_dean Of course I do! <a href="http://www.dreamstarlets.com/lobby/main/moviesc/cw40lbs.html" target="_blank">http://www.dreamstarlets.com/l obby/main/moviesc/cw40lbs.html</a> Only time DL had a prominent role in theatrical film. Growing up .... KTLA5 often showed it in the 70s.
Originally Posted By oc_dean Unfortunately ... that link can only show a small thumbnail of a scene at DL. Disney must have copyrighted their image to the hilt regarding this film.
Originally Posted By Imagineer This Disneyland has been in a few other films, briefly, it's just hard to find them. But 40 Pounds of Trouble had the most scenes of Disneyland.
Originally Posted By fastpassholder A small segment featuring Disneyland was in "That Thing You Do", directed by Tom Hanks.
Originally Posted By bhbob Still waiting for "40 lbs of Trouble" to come to DVD. Have had it on VHS for years. I just love seeing the goofs they have in the film about the park. Like, when they get off the Monorail they look over the railing DOWN MAIN ST.!! Love it!
Originally Posted By kennect I just remember the film vaguely when seeing it as a kid...Now Arch is making my warm fuzzy seem like nothing....
Originally Posted By Mom2aDisneyboy <a href="http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/trailer.html?v_id=125653" target="_blank">http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst /movies/trailer.html?v_id=125653</a> I have never heard of the movie but I just watched the trailer
Originally Posted By bhbob It's a nice movie, but of course, the best part for a Disneyland nut is about 20 minutes of the film is inside the park. It was filmed about 1965 if I remember right. It shows a lot of the good old attractions like the mine trains and the pirate ship in Fantasyland. The VHS is out-of-print but you can find used copies around. Also it's black & white, wished it was color just for the Disneyland part!
Originally Posted By tapdancemom >>Still waiting for "40 lbs of Trouble" to come to DVD. Have had it on VHS for years. I just love seeing the goofs they have in the film about the park. Like, when they get off the Monorail they look over the railing DOWN MAIN ST.!! Love it!<< No wonder I couldn't find it in the Netflix catalog.
Originally Posted By danyoung > I just love seeing the goofs they have in the film about the park. Like, when they get off the Monorail they look over the railing DOWN MAIN ST.!! Love it!< There was a special years back about the Muppets going to WDW. I've never seen such license taken with a property before! You'd be in MGM one minute, turn around, and be in Epcot. It was really shameful!
Originally Posted By williamedit bhbob, the film was shot in color and Panavision too. Wouldn't it be great to see a dvd release of this in the proper aspect ratio? The "goofs" in the film are probably deliberate to serve the cotinuity of the story. I remember when the original 1958 film The Blob was being filmed in my home town of Phoenixville, Pa. They combined three towns in the area to make it look like the one town in the film. Another film that has a shot of Disneyland in it is The Three Stooges In Orbit.Towards the end of the film some Martians are going to attack the Earth and as they say "Let's hurt the Earthlings where it really hurts," a shot is shown of the entrance to Disneyland.
Originally Posted By barboy Escape from L.A.(1996) with Kurt Russell featured a very loose and campy version of DL complete with a look alike monorail and train track around the perimiter as well as a "Matterhorn" and "Main Street". I do not know if the writing, production or direction(John Carpenter) were trying to fool most of the movie goers into believing that was Disneyland or if they intended the "DL" scenes to be a straight up spoof.
Originally Posted By TheTexasKid I'm old enough to have seen "40 Pounds of Trouble," when it was first released to the theaters. It was a remake of "Sorrowful Jones" w/ Bob Hope, which was itself a remake of "Little Miss Marker" w/ Adolph Menjou. And then it was remade as "Little Miss Marker" again. This time with Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, and Tony Curtis. And while the theme park visited by the Griswolds in "National Lampoon's Vacation" was called Wally's World. It is believed that the screenwriters were actually refering to Disneyland.
Originally Posted By danyoung Wally World actually ended up being Six Flags Magic Mountain. "Sorry folks, the park's closed. The moose out front shoulda toldja. ."
Originally Posted By DlandDug <--- loves 40 Pounds of Trouble." I have a well worn home recorded VHS of just the Disneyland sequence. The other biggest continuity flub is when Tony Curtis runs into a tunnel near the Indian Village and emerges in the Painted Desert on the other side of Frontierland. I have a one sheet poster for the film, and a complete press book. I have searched for years to find a set of the specially made full color lobby cards of just Disneyland. Fun fact: Disneyland had to receive equal billing with Tony Curtis and Suzanne Pleshette in all advertising for this film! (It was a Universal release, btw.)
Originally Posted By bhbob My Goof! 40 lbs of Trouble is in color, a washed out color on the VHS but still color. After all this talk I just had to watch it again last night. I hope they release it on DVD and fix it up.
