A family leaves city life to take possession of a Wyoming ranch.A family leaves city life to take possession of a Wyoming ranch.A family leaves city life to take possession of a Wyoming ranch.
Ron Howard
- Virgil Tanner
- (as Ronny Howard)
Rance Howard
- Cleve
- (uncredited)
Larry D. Mann
- The Marshal
- (uncredited)
F. Ben Miller
- Shelby
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaFrank DeKova loved to sit in local restaurants and visit with kids during filming breaks in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He was very approachable for an actor.
- GoofsVirgil throws his hat at the bear cub, and then runs off without retrieving it when its mother starts chasing him, yet in the very next shot, the hat is back on his head.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Pet Set: Episode #1.39 (1971)
Featured review
Okay for this sort of thing
When I was a child, I caught about the last third of this Disney movie on television, and it made a real impression on me. For decades afterwards, I wondered what the title was, but I couldn't remember it. But just the other day, I caught the entire package on Turner Classic Movies, and I was delighted to finally identify the movie. Seeing the entire thing as an adult, I think I can sum it up by saying that with the movie being an early 1970s movie from the Disney company involving a big city family in the late 1800s moving to the countryside, you can probably predict how most of it will play out. That's not to say that the movie isn't enjoyable, but you should probably be willing to put up with a number of familiar plot turns and characters. Those who do will find some nice scenery, pacing more leisurely than the hyperkinetic family movies made today, and some good messages about working hard and never giving up. It's not a Disney classic, but it's likable enough if this kind of thing is what you want. A word of warning, however: While the movie got a "G" rating back in 1970, there is some surprisingly harsh violence and intense situations that would unquestionably earn the movie a "PG" rating today.
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- Wizard-8
- Mar 26, 2019
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- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.75 : 1
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