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Old Yeller ()

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A teenage boy grows to love a stray yellow dog while helping his mother and younger brother run their Texas homestead while their father is away on a cattle drive. First thought to be good-for-nothing mutt, Old Yeller is soon beloved by... See more »
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Katie Coates
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Jim Coates
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Bud Searcy
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Burn Sanderson
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Lisbeth Searcy
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Travis Coates
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Arliss Coates
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Old Yeller (uncredited)

Directed by

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Robert Stevenson

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Fred Gipson ... (screenplay by) &
William Tunberg ... (screenplay by)
 
Fred Gipson ... (based on the book "Old Yeller" by)

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Bill Anderson ... associate producer (as William H. Anderson)
Walt Disney ... producer (uncredited)

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Oliver Wallace
Will Schaefer ... (uncredited)

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Charles P. Boyle ... (photographed by)

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Stanley E. Johnson ... (as Stanley Johnson)

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Carroll Clark

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Emile Kuri
Fred M. MacLean ... (as Fred MacLean)

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Gertrude Casey
Chuck Keehne

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Pat McNalley ... makeup artist
Elaine Stone ... hair stylist

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Yakima Canutt ... second unit director
Robert G. Shannon ... assistant director

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Robert O. Cook ... sound supervisor
Frank McWhorter ... sound recordist

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Peter Ellenshaw ... matte artist

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Joe Canutt ... stunts (uncredited)

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Evelyn Kennedy ... music editor
Clifford Vaughan ... orchestrator

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Edle Bakke ... script supervisor (uncredited)

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Walt Disney ... presenter
Lionel Comport ... hog and racoon wrangler (uncredited)
George Guessford ... head wrangler (uncredited)
Jayson Wall ... producer: 2014 4k digital restoration (uncredited)
Frank Weatherwax ... dog trainer (uncredited)
Rudd Weatherwax ... dog trainer (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

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 David Mullich

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Also Known As
  • Yellow Old Dog (Japan, English title)
  • Fidèle vagabond (France)
  • Sein großer Freund Jello (Germany)
  • Sein Freund Jello (Germany)
  • Fiel amigo (Spain)
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  • 83 min
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Trivia The dog, Old Yeller, although described in the dialogue as a mongrel, is portrayed by a 170-pound Yellow Mastador (Labrador Retriever/English Mastiff cross) and, in the book by Fred Gipson, is a Black-Mouthed Cur, a similar looking but less bulky breed. See more »
Goofs The film is set in 1869. However, Travis' gun has a model 1873 Springfield Trapdoor receiver. This rifle fires a cartridge, so Travis has no need for the powder horn around his neck. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into The Best Doggoned Dog in the World (1957). See more »
Soundtracks Old Yeller See more »
Quotes Jim Coates: Now and then, for no good reason a man can figure out, life will just haul off and knock him flat.
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