My Side of the Mountain

19691969
GG
1h 40m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

1.1K

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As young Sam Gribley runs away he learns about nature.

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As young Sam Gribley runs away he learns about nature.As young Sam Gribley runs away he learns about nature.As young Sam Gribley runs away he learns about nature.

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

1.1K

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Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination

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Trivia
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 behind the bird causing it to be upset. The arm probably belongs to Dan Haggerty, who is also uncredited for this film, but who worked on the film as the animal handler. 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 Gribley's hair should have 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.

Connections
Referenced in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Painted Hills (1993)

Soundtracks
Baby Elephant Walk
(uncredited)
from Hatari! (1962)
Music by Henry Mancini
Arranged by Jerry Bilik

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9/10

A beautiful memory

I have had this film etched upon my memory ever since I saw it around 35 years ago as a 7/ 8 year old in cinema in North London. I have never seen it since, but I remember, rather like the solitude of the boy in the film, being left at the cinema by my mother and then picked up outside long after the film had finished - this was a different era after all, kids were given much more freedom to roam then. So being apart from my family helped me get into the character of the boy completely and I guess I just zoned out of myself onto the boy on the screen. It all seems like some beautiful dream of a long gone and innocent world that sort of tapped into the hippie consciousness of the time. I would love to get a copy of this somewhere so my own children can see it.

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