Old Yeller

"All the heart, all the excitement of a great frontier adventure!"

Jul 10 1959 Approved 1h 23m
Adventure, Drama, Family

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.

Plot

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 1860's. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog. After a series of scrapes involving raccoons, snakes, bears, wild hogs and wolves, Travis grows to love and respect Old Yeller, who comes to have a profound effect on the boy's life.

Written by

Fred Gipson, William Tunberg

Directed by

Robert Stevenson

Cast

Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Walt Disney Productions

Languages

English

Awards

2 wins total

Trailers
OLD YELLER 40th ANNIVERSARY MOVIE TRAILER [VHS] 1997
Scores
# of Votes
15,804
Average Rating
7.2 out of 10
Metascore
84
Popularity
NA