My Side of the Mountain (1969)

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- 1 win & 1 nomination total

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Ted Eccles

Sam Gribley
(as Teddy Eccles)

Theodore Bikel

Bando

Tudi Wiggins

Miss Turner

Paul Hébert

Hunter

Cosette Lee

Apple Lady

Ralph Endersby

Boy In Soda Fountain

George Allan

Boy In Soda Fountain

Dan McIlravey

Little Boy On Bus
(as Danny McIlravey)

Frank Perry

Mr. Gribley

Peggi Loder

Mrs. Gribley

Tom Harvey

Deer Poacher

Larry Reynolds

Deer Poacher

Patrick Peuvion

Ranger

Gina Dick

Mary Gribley

Karen Pearson

Prudence Gribley

Ed Persons

Man In Street

Maxie Rosenbloom

Flint Seller
(as Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom)

Bruno the Bear

Bear

"My Side of the Mountain" is an entertaining family film that I enjoyed both as a teenager and as an adult.

The movie has adventure and a sense of wonder in its portrayal of a young boy intent on making his way alone in the wilderness. The lead character, Sam, does sometimes overact and can get on one's nerves, but the supporting cast--human, mammalian, and avian--keeps the film interesting and prevents Sam from become too overbearing. Kids can learn lessons on self-reliance and interdependence from the film, in addition to enjoying San's adventures and the beautiful scenery of the Laurentian Mountains.

gf1701
Feb 12, 2005
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The scene where the falcon starts freaking out was caused by somebody upsetting it from behind. If you look closely, you can see the arm of one of the crew members behind it causing it to be upset. That probably was Dan Haggerty, who is also uncredited for the film, but who worked as the animal handler in it. He later went on to play the title role in The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1977).

Goofs
After being so long in the wilderness Sam's hair would've grown a lot longer.

Quotes
Sam: The deer have pressed in all around me. They're hungry. They come into the hemlock grove to hide and sleep for the day. They manage the snow so well on their slender hooves. If I was to know that a million years from today, my children's children were to live as I am living in these mountains, I would marry me a wife with slender feet and begin immediately to breed a race with hooves. So that the mountain children of the future might run through the snows and meadows and mountains and marshes as easily as the deer. I must be pretty lonely to be having such daydreams. I guess I am.