When a cougar raised by a group of loggers in the Pacific Northwest reverts to its natural instincts, the consequence could threaten its life.When a cougar raised by a group of loggers in the Pacific Northwest reverts to its natural instincts, the consequence could threaten its life.When a cougar raised by a group of loggers in the Pacific Northwest reverts to its natural instincts, the consequence could threaten its life.
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 nomination total
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- TriviaOriginally released as part of a double feature bill with Disney's The Jungle Book (1967).
- GoofsDuring the final confrontation, Charlie is played by two different cats (one "happy", one "angry") of noticeably different fur colors.
- Quotes
Narrator: [Charlie, after having caused some havoc on the logger's river drive earlier, is shown being chained to Jess Bradley's truck] The long chain of circumstances that started on the river drive finally ended up back at the mill - with Charlie on the short end. You see, when the Big Boss started adding lost man hours to mangled groceries to busted-up Wanigans, he decided to subtract one cougar. And he ordered Jess to keep a curb on that cat.
Narrator: Charlie didn't like the new setup at all. He had the growing feeling that he was getting' left out, put upon, and neglected. What's more, he was just plain bored.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Escape from Vault Disney: A Tale of Two Critters (2024)
- SoundtracksTalkin' About Charlie
Written by Jack Speirs and Franklyn Marks
It's worth watching just to see actual footage of one of the last log drives on the Clearwater river. Not long after the movie was made, the Clearwater was dammed up, and that whole beautiful valley was killed by the muck and slack-water behind Dworshak dam. If they tried to make a movie like this these days, they'd have to do it with CGI, because you just can't pile up 600,000 feet of old-growth logs and dump them in a river any more, even if you could find one that wasn't dammed up. The animal rights people would probably have something to say about having a cougar jump into a pen full of sheep and run over top of a bunch of piglets, too.
There are some hokey parts of the production such as the "moonlight" cougar romp under a bright sunny sky, and the dynamiting of a small pile of driftwood that is supposed to be a "log jam" (after lighting the "wick", no less), but in the genre of "animal pictures" this is one of the best.
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- Feb 7, 2011
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- Der einsame Puma
- Filming locations
- North Fork of the Clearwater River, Idaho, USA(River Log Drive)
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- Runtime1 hour 15 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1