I first bumped into this film last year on the Movies 4 Men channel (known for its dubbed or appallingly cheap films), I tuned in at the end and I was horrified that Doug McClure's character stated his intention to take a young boy into the Mountains with him!(I saw the film was dubbed but wasn't expecting such behaviour from our hero-even if the message had been lost in translation!)Anyhow I got bored last week and saw the film was back on so I decided to watch it again. It was worth every second!......It was full of unintentionally classic scenes...I could not stop laughing!
Firstly the plot is dreadful (blah blah gold rush, blah blah dead man's promise, blah blah sick boy etc..)but so many scenes are bad that it seems as if the film is a comedy! I loved the Bar fight scene, it went on for hours and was so fake that i was on the floor laughing!, then the sick boys dad is tortured by Indians (or Eskimo's?)but they look more like Russians!, and Doug McClure (poor man's roving American in 1970's Euro films)has to promise the dying Man that he will find his sick boy and take him to the Mountains!....The boy is meanwhile captured by the bad guys who talk very loudly about what to do with him!...he manages to escape and gets in a fight with a terrifying house trained bald eagle who does more staring than tearing!, It must be said also that this is not a 'Call of the Wild' rip off.....because they couldn't even be bothered to put a dog in the film (let alone a Wolf or a Hellhound!)..well, apart from some flea bitten Alsatian who gets killed within 5 minutes!, The film seems to last for 25 hours and you end up saying ...'come on', 'look behind you'! or 'It's the bloody Sheriff you idiot'! But please watch it , you won't regret it!
Firstly the plot is dreadful (blah blah gold rush, blah blah dead man's promise, blah blah sick boy etc..)but so many scenes are bad that it seems as if the film is a comedy! I loved the Bar fight scene, it went on for hours and was so fake that i was on the floor laughing!, then the sick boys dad is tortured by Indians (or Eskimo's?)but they look more like Russians!, and Doug McClure (poor man's roving American in 1970's Euro films)has to promise the dying Man that he will find his sick boy and take him to the Mountains!....The boy is meanwhile captured by the bad guys who talk very loudly about what to do with him!...he manages to escape and gets in a fight with a terrifying house trained bald eagle who does more staring than tearing!, It must be said also that this is not a 'Call of the Wild' rip off.....because they couldn't even be bothered to put a dog in the film (let alone a Wolf or a Hellhound!)..well, apart from some flea bitten Alsatian who gets killed within 5 minutes!, The film seems to last for 25 hours and you end up saying ...'come on', 'look behind you'! or 'It's the bloody Sheriff you idiot'! But please watch it , you won't regret it!