Where the Red Fern Grows (1974 film)
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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