Where the Red Fern Grows (1974 film)

Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1974 drama film about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.
 * Directed by Norman Tokar. Written by Douglas C. Stewart and Eleanor Lamb, based on the novel by Wilson Rawls.

A Boy's Greatest Adventure Begins...taglines

Dialogue

 * Billy: Grandpa says in New England, everyone's going crazy over coon skin coats.
 * Father: Is that right?
 * Billy: So we should be gettin' a good price.
 * Father: I'll tell you what. I'll let you have one whole wall of that smokehouse if you think you and them dogs can cover it.
 * Billy: It's not hardly big enough, is it?


 * Billy: I couldn't come home, mama. My dogs had a coon up this tree.
 * Grandpa: Well, he sure picked a big sycamore.
 * Billy: Biggest one in the whole river bottom.
 * Grandpa: That's all right. The bigger they come, the harder they fall.
 * Father: Well, there's no sense chopping down a tree like this, just for one coon. Come on, Billy, we gotta go.
 * Billy: I can't, papa.
 * Father: Why not?
 * Billy: I made a bargain with my dogs. I told them if they'd put one up a tree, I'd do the rest. They did their part, it's up to me to do mine.
 * Mother: Well you're quitting, and that's that, so come on. Let's go. Billy, do I have to whip you on top of all the punishment you already brought on yourself? Do I?
 * Billy: Yes, ma'am.
 * Father: A man can't keep his word, Jenny, he's not much good. Especially to himself.
 * Grandpa: I say amen to that, Jenny.

Taglines

 * A Boy's Greatest Adventure Begins...
 * He Made a Promise And He Kept It!
 * A True Story of a Boy and His Dogs

Cast

 * James Whitmore - Grandpa
 * Beverly Garland - Mama Coleman
 * Jack Ging - Papa Coleman
 * Lonny Chapman - Sheriff
 * Stewart Petersen - Billy Coleman
 * Bill Dunbar - Mr. Kyle
 * Marshall Edwards - The Preacher
 * Jill Clark - Alice
 * Jeanna Wilson - Sarah Coleman
 * Rex Corley - Rubin Pritchard
 * John Lindsey - Rainie Pritchard
 * Garland McKinney - Mr. Pritchard

Production
The film is produced by Lyman Dayton and filmed on location in Oklahoma, including at the waterfall in what is now Natural Falls State Park.