All the heart, all the excitement of a great frontier adventure!
Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860s. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog.
- Animal harm
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- intimateepic
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Cast
- Tommy KirkTravis Coates
- Dorothy McGuireKatie Coates
- Fess ParkerJim Coates
- Kevin CorcoranArliss Coates
- Jeff YorkBud Searcy
- Beverly WashburnLisbeth Searcy
- Chuck ConnorsSanderson
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- Robert StevensonDirector
- Fred GipsonScreenplay
- William TunbergScreenplay
- Charles P. BoyleDirector of Photography
- Will SchaeferOriginal Music Composer
- Stanley E. JohnsonEditor
- Walt DisneyProducer
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