The Gnome Mobile
The GnomeMobile is a 1967 Walt Disney Productions comedyfantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson. It was one of the last films personally produced by Walt Disney. It was based on a 1936 book by Upton Sinclair titled The Gnomobile.
The story opens with the childrens grandfather, D.J. Mulrooney Walter Brennan, a wellknown executive officer of a vast timbertrading company. D.J. is an eccentric and passionate man with a distinctive snore, as well as vast dedication and determination. D.J. is going to Seattle to sell 50,000 acres of timberland. D.J. takes his personal, customized 1930 RollsRoyce Phantom II on the trip. In a brief conversation with his Company Head of Security, Ralph Yarby Richard Deacon, we learn that the car was purchased after D.J. earned his first US1 million. His first stop is The Airport where he picks up his grandchildren Elizabeth Karen Dotrice and Rodney Matthew Garber who are to accompany D.J. on his trip to Seattle. The children ask about the Rolls, to them an unusual car, and D.J. compares the Rolls with his first car back in Ireland, a one horsepower Jaunty Car.Traveling north from San Francisco the trio detour to Redwood National Park where D.J. has endowed a grove of Redwood trees. Elizabeth encounters a gnome called Jasper Tom Lowell, who has a terrible problem. Elizabeth, touched by the trusting gnome, agrees to help him with his problem. She brings to Jasper the one person that she believes is best at fixing problems, her grandfather D.J. D.J. believes in Leprechauns due to his Irish ancestry, but does not believe in Gnomes at this point and only reluctantly agrees to follow Elizabeth back to the spot where she met Jasper. When Jasper is not seen initially, D.J. indicates his disbelief in Gnomes. Jasper is upset that D.J. is making a fool of Elizabeth and Jasper first calls out and then makes a reappearance. The three are introduced to Jaspers 943year old grandfather Knobby also played by Brennan who, like D.J., is passionate and shorttempered. Jaspers terrible problem is that Knobby is suffering from a sickness called fading, he is becoming semitransparent. D.J. diagnoses this as Knobbys losing the will to live. The reason for this fading is that Knobby fears th
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