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Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1974 drama film directed by Norman Tokar and starring James Whitmore, Beverly Garland, Stewart Petersen and Jack Ging. It is based on the 1961 novel of the same name. [2][3][4] Plot. Twelve-year-old Billy Coleman is obsessed with coon dogs and coon hunting, but good dogs cost money that his family cannot afford.
Where the Red Fern Grows: Directed by Norman Tokar. With James Whitmore, Beverly Garland, Jack Ging, Lonny Chapman. Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.
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- Drama, Family
- Norman Tokar
- 1974-06-21
Films. The novel was adapted into a 1974 film starring Stewart Petersen, James Whitmore, Beverly Garland, and Jack Ging. A sequel was released in 1992, starring Wilford Brimley, Chad McQueen, Lisa Whelchel, and Karen Carlson. A remake was released in 2003, starring Joseph Ashton, Dabney Coleman, Ned Beatty, and Dave Matthews.
- Wilson Rawls, Willie Morris, Karin Winegar, Leroy Powell, James Baldwin, Margery Williams
- 1961
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Billy Coleman rescues a Redbone Coonhound from attack by another neighborhood dog. He takes it home with him so that its wounds can heal. In light of this event, he has a flashback to when he was ten living in the Ozark mountains with his two Redbone Coonhounds, Old Dan and Little Ann. Growing up in the Ozarks with his parents, Will and Jenny, and ...
While the novel and 1974 film version depict Billy to have long blond hair, he has dark brown hair in the 2003film. The novel depicted the raccoon hunting competition to last about six nights, whereas the two film versions place it at four nights. In the novel and 1974 film version, Billy, Old Dan, Little Ann, and Rubin and Rainie Pritchard hunt fo...
Joseph Ashton as Young Billy ColemanRenee Faia as Jenny ColemanMac Davis as Hod BellingtonWhere the Red Fern Grows on IMDbBilly Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for two years to achieve his dream of buying two red-bone coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in life as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with his dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann.
Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for two years to achieve his dream of buying two red-bone coonhound pups.
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A young Ozarks boy listens to his grandfather and saves up to buy two raccoon hounds in 1930s Oklahoma. Watch Where the Red Fern Grows with a subscription on Prime Video, rent on Apple TV, or...
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