Ex-lawman Jim Cole retires to Wyoming to farm his land, but a land-greedy neighbor, an ex-con turned bounty hunter, and a vicious grizzly bear upset his retirement plans.Ex-lawman Jim Cole retires to Wyoming to farm his land, but a land-greedy neighbor, an ex-con turned bounty hunter, and a vicious grizzly bear upset his retirement plans.Ex-lawman Jim Cole retires to Wyoming to farm his land, but a land-greedy neighbor, an ex-con turned bounty hunter, and a vicious grizzly bear upset his retirement plans.
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- TriviaFinal film (as director) of Joseph Pevney.
- GoofsWhen being warned about the Grizzly, "Old Satan", Big Jim responds that "a Winchester .44-40 ought to take care of him." The .44-40 is a large bore pistol cartridge still popular today for which the Winchester Model 1892 lever action rifle was chambered (the same rifle used by The Rifleman (1958)), but it is far too light to be reliable against an animal the size of a Grizzly. No hunter would ever voluntarily confront such an animal with a .44-40.
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[Gypsy is waiting outside the General Store. She's bored, and playing with the wooden beams. She sees a man sprawled out on the bench, his feet propped up on one end and his head on the other, his hat pulled over his eyes. He's sound asleep, and snoring loudly. Once in a while he would snort and grunt. Gypsy walks up to him and prods one of his feet. The man, Hank, grunts and wakes up]
Gypsy Cole: Are you sick?
Hank: No. I was just, uh, just thinking. Care to sit and think a spell, Rosebud?
Gypsy Cole: My name ain't Rosebud, it's Gypsy.
[Hank laughs warmly]
Hank: Shake hands with a champeen.
[Hank snorts and clears his throat before drifting off again. Gypsy gets up onto the adjacent bench, lies down and pulls her bonnet over her eyes in a mimicry of Hank]
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by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
Clint Walker and Martha Hyer are a pair of marrieds with children, one of them being a teenage niece. He's a sheriff who's now retired and they've inherited a ranch from his late brother.
Unfortunately the ranch is also loaded down with a financial obligations they've inherited as well. They have a rapacious neighbor in Keenan Wynn who'd like the property with a pair of lunkhead sons, Ron Ely and Sammy Jackson.
But that's not all facing Clint and Martha. There's a local grizzly named Old Satan who's terrorizing the ranches and farms in the area. He's doing far more damage to them than anything Keenan Wynn and his sons are doing. Actually Wynn for a screen villain is a rather mild one, he much prefers working with finances to get what he wants than any violence.
There's one more in the mix here. Leo Gordon has one of his best screen roles in this film, in fact he steals the film whenever he's on screen. He plays a bounty hunter and former deputy to Walker who served two years in prison due to his killing an innocent man and Walker's testimony of same. He's been hired to kill Old Satan by Wynn, setting the stage for the climax.
The Night of the Grizzly does have some very nice outdoor camera work, no studio shots at all in this one of a dwindling group of B westerns.
It's unfortunate that there is no market for films like The Night of the Grizzly any more.
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- May 27, 2007
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- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1