Family Favorites Collection: Black Beauty / The Call Of The Wild / Hercules / Beauty And The Beast / Thumbelina

"Black Beauty": Based on Anna Sewell's beloved story of a sweet-tempered horse born and raised in the English countryside. Taught by his mother to always be a friend to man, Beauty lives happily with his master Squire Gordon and the stableman John Manley. Beauty soon learns that the world can be a harsh place when he becomes the property of several owners who use him as a job horse, pulling cabs and heavy loads through city streets. Beauty endures this through his unyielding courage and lives out the rest of his life in the meadow where he was born. "The Call of the Wild": This is a wonderful animated adaptation of the classic novel by Jack London, famed author of "The Sea Wolf" and "White Fang". "The Call of the Wild" follows government mail-carriers Thornton and Pete Smith who take mail and supplies across the brutal Yukon wilderness during the 1898 Klondike gold rush. An intelligent German Shepherd, Buck, is stolen from his beloved owner in California and sold to John as a sled dog - whose loyalty to his new master is tested when John tries his own hand at prospecting. "Hercules": Greek mythology comes alive in this action-packed tale of the world's strongest man! Hercules is the son of Zeus, and heir to the throne. To prove himself worthy to be King, Hercules must conquer the fearsome Nemean Lion...defeat the cunning Cerberus, the Dog of the Underworld...battle the nine-headed Hydra...and fight a bird with a brass beak, all in his epic quest for justice. Children will thrill to the exciting adventures of this noble hero as they learn important lessons about responsibility, forgiveness and the true meaning of friendship. "Beauty and the Beast": An old man gets lost in the forest and finds a magnificent castle. For his daughter he cuts a rose from the rose bushes in the castle gardens - but a horrible beast appears and tells him that he must die for having cut the rose. The old man tells about the request of his daughter, Beauty, and the Beast says that he must return home and bring his daughter to die instead. Beauty insists on being the one who must die and arrives at the castle, but instead, she develops a great friendship with the once terrible beast - friendship that eventually turns to love. "Thumbelina": Join in the adventures of the little girl who became a giant among her people in this spectacular, action-filled tale based on the much-loved children's classic by master storyteller Hans Christian Anderson. Thumbelina doesn't anticipate the trials and thrilling adventures that await her out in the larger world as she journeys to the Meadow of the Tulips to stop the spring thaw from washing away her village.