ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

Two orphaned children (Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann) discover they are actually aliens with unusual powers (telekinesis). Ray Milland ("X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes") is a ruthless tycoon who wants to use the kids for his own purposes. Donald Pleasence ("Fantastic Voyage") is a psychic investigator who also has self-serving motives. Eddie Albert befriends the kids and helps them escape in his Winnebago, which the kids cause to fly by using their telekinetic powers during the climactic chase (shades of Elliot and E.T.).

Although this isn't the typical Disney Studios silliness that plagued movie-goers during the long post-Walt "Love Bug" era, it isn't entirely successful as the sci-fi drama it's intended to be. Neither the climactic special effects scene of the arriving saucer that comes to rescue the kids, nor the superimposed flying Winnebago, are up to the lofty standards of the post-Star Wars age.

Perhaps that's why the special effects improved in the 1978 sequel "Return from Witch Mountain". Directed by John Hough.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Gord Green]

This was one of the better Disney era films with a sci-fi bent.

Although it wasn't a big, big hit , Disney did do a sequel, Return to Witch Mountain, a few years later that was also pretty decent.