The Sky's the Limit

Disney biplane movie. Three is third generation. Two is second generation. Two takes Three to stay at Three's grandfather's farm in the California wine country while Two goes to Europe or somewhere. Three doesn't feel at home on the farm at first. A goose picks on him. Three starts up a Caterpillar and gets into trouble with it. But Three discovers that Grandpa has an old biplane. Grandpa used to be an ace pilot. Three and Grandpa can talk about aviation, and Three feels more at home. Three talks Grandpa into flying the old plane again. Grandpa and his farming cohort get it to flying, but the engine goes bad. Two comes back to get Three, driving a Volkswagen Beetle. Grandpa isn't allowed to take Three up in the plane because Two thinks it would be too dangerous, and he needs an engine from somewhere anyway. Do you think that Grandpa could manage to take Three for a flight before he has to leave?

A lot movie old timers got into this Disney made for television feature The Sky's The Limit. That was one thing the Magic Kingdom was good for, giving employment to familiar faces of the silver screen.

Young Ike Eisenmann is off from prep school for the summer and he's going to visit his grandfather Pat O'Brien for the first time. O'Brien is a farmer who lives with his one hand Lloyd Nolan.

But they really bond when the kid finds an old World War 1 era biplane in the barn. Turns out both O'Brien and Nolan are a pair of aviation pioneers. And he and his school friends love building model airplanes. Built a few myself when I was Eisenmann's age.

Seeing a lot of these movie old timers is the best thing at least for me that The Sky's The Limit has going for it. The second is the great chemistry that O'Brien and Nolan had with Eisenmann.

Good one from the Magic Kingdom.