the vibe
Tom McGowan’s Typical Vibe
2 films — measured, hopeful, moderate, clear, cozy
pacing
Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Tom McGowan has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1970s.
At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When Elsa is blamed for causing an elephant stampede in the nearby village, head warden John Kendall demands the young lion either be trained to survive in the wilds of the Serengeti or be sent to a zoo.
Dir. James Hill · With Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.
Dir. Wolfgang Reitherman · With Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway