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Katharine Hepburn goes up up and away in a beautiful balloon
The climax of this film has Katharine Hepburn descending upon the Hollywood Bowl in a balloon with two children at the climax of the 1812 Overture. However, the scene that will probably stick in your mind is when Hepburn is dangling from the anchor when the balloon first takes off and she is wondering how she got into this predicament. You have to admit, Hepburn was always willing to do something different, so it that regard doing a children's movie is not all that different from doing Eugene O'Neill or Tennessee Williams. In "Olly Olly Oxen Free," two young boys, Albie and Chris (Kevin McKenzie and Dennis Dimster) want to celebrate the birthday of their late-grandfather. Apparently as a young man grandfather had flown through the air in a magnificent balloon using the name "The Great Sandusky," so the boys decide to recreate his great adventure. Miss Pudd (Hepburn) helps them out and gets caught up in the trip, along with Joshua (Obie) the sheepdog.

I fully admit to being in the "If Katharine Hepburn wants to read the phone book out loud, then I am willing to listen to it" camp. But if you are also a fan of Hepburn once you see this movie you are probably not going to watch it again: i.e., rent it from a video store or check it out at the library rather than own it. I screened it for my children and they pretty much lost interest in it until the baloon took off. Clearly there are much better examples of the children on the voyage of discovery (a.k.a. Huckleberry Finn on the Mississippi) storyline, many of them involving spaceships instead of balloons. If your children can stand Black & White movies show them "Bringing Up Baby" instead. This 1978 film was directed by Richard A. Colla, with a screenplay by Eugenie Ponic. With a running time of 96 minutes it is a bit longer than most children films.

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Hepburn Plays an Eccentric in a Children's Movie
The climax of this film has Katharine Hepburn descending upon the Hollywood Bowl in a balloon with two children at the climax of the 1812 Overture. However, the scene that will probably stick in your mind is when Hepburn is dangling from the anchor when the balloon first takes off and she is wondering how she got into this predicament. You have to admit, Hepburn was always willing to do something different, so it that regard doing a children's movie is not all that different from doing Eugene O'Neill or Tennessee Williams.

Two young boys, Albie and Chris (Kevin McKenzie and Dennis Dimster) want to celebrtae the birthday of their late-grandfather. Apparently as a young man grandfather had flown through the air in a magnificent balloon using the name "The Great Sandusky," so the boys decide to recreate his great adventure. Miss Pudd (Hepburn) helps them out and gets caught up in the trip, along with Joshua (Obie) the sheepdog.

I fully admit to being in the "If Katharine Hepburn wants to read the phone book out loud, then I am willing to listen to it" camp. But if you are also a fan of Hepburn once you see this movie you are probably not going to watch it again: i.e., rent it from a video store or check it out at the library rather than own it. I screened it for my children and they pretty much lost interest in it until the baloon took off. Clearly there are much better examples of the children on the voyage of discovery (a.k.a. Huckleberry Finn on the Mississippi) storyline, many of them involving spaceships instead of balloons. If your children can stand Black & White movies show them "Bringing Up Baby" instead.

This 1978 film was directed by Richard A. Colla with a screenplay by Eugenie Ponic and is released on HBO Kids Video. With a runing time of 96 minutes it is a bit longer than most children films.