Where the Red Fern Grows (1974 film)
1974 film by Norman Tokar
Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1974 drama film about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.
- Directed by Norman Tokar. Written by Douglas C. Stewart and Eleanor Lamb, based on the novel by Wilson Rawls.
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Dialogue edit
- Billy: Grandpa says in New England, everyone's going crazy over coon skin coats.
- Father: Is that right?
- Billy: So we should be gettin' a good price.
- Father: I'll tell you what. I'll let you have one whole wall of that smokehouse if you think you and them dogs can cover it.
- Billy: It's not hardly big enough, is it?
- Billy: I couldn't come home, mama. My dogs had a coon up this tree.
- Grandpa: Well, he sure picked a big sycamore.
- Billy: Biggest one in the whole river bottom.
- Grandpa: That's all right. The bigger they come, the harder they fall.
- Father: Well, there's no sense chopping down a tree like this, just for one coon. Come on, Billy, we gotta go.
- Billy: I can't, papa.
- Father: Why not?
- Billy: I made a bargain with my dogs. I told them if they'd put one up a tree, I'd do the rest. They did their part, it's up to me to do mine.
- Mother: Well you're quitting, and that's that, so come on. Let's go. Billy, do I have to whip you on top of all the punishment you already brought on yourself? Do I?
- Billy: Yes, ma'am.
- Father: A man can't keep his word, Jenny, he's not much good. Especially to himself.
- Grandpa: I say amen to that, Jenny.
Taglines edit
- A Boy's Greatest Adventure Begins...
- He Made a Promise And He Kept It!
- A True Story of a Boy and His Dogs
Cast edit
- James Whitmore - Grandpa
- Beverly Garland - Mama Coleman
- Jack Ging - Papa Coleman
- Lonny Chapman - Sheriff
- Stewart Petersen - Billy Coleman
- Bill Dunbar - Mr. Kyle
- Marshall Edwards - The Preacher
- Jill Clark - Alice
- Jeanna Wilson - Sarah Coleman
- Rex Corley - Rubin Pritchard
- John Lindsey - Rainie Pritchard
- Garland McKinney - Mr. Pritchard
Production edit
The film is produced by Lyman Dayton and filmed on location in Oklahoma, including at the waterfall in what is now Natural Falls State Park.
External links edit
- Where the Red Fern Grows (1974 film) quotes at the Internet Movie Database