Old Yeller

While his father is away on a cattle drive, 15-year-old Tommy Kirk manages the family farm. Kirk is irritated when younger brother Moochie Corcoran adopts a frisky stray dog. But soon Kirk is as fond of the dog as everyone else in the family., Disney’s classic frontier drama is almost as famous as its canine star. Mongrel Spike stars as Old Yeller, the range dog who is adopted by the Coates family, and after a bad start is determined to protect them from the dangers of the wilderness. He battles against bears, wild hogs and other adversity until he contracts a fatal illness. In a tear-jerking ending, Yeller dies, but his young master has safely made the tr, Walt Disney yarn about a stray dog that helps protect the homestead of a frontier family in the 1860s. Dorothy McGuire, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Fess Parker. Searcy: Jeff York. Sanderson: Chuck Connors. Lisabeth: Beverly Washburn. Old Yeller: Spike. Robert Stevenson directed., Moving family drama about a young boy who reluctantly adopts a stray yellow mongrel, Old Yeller. But through a series of scrapes and adventures the boy and the dog become best friends., Warm-hearted story of a young boy living in rural 19th-century Texas who discovers a stray dog and takes him home to the family farm. At first his elder brother is opposed to the new arrival, but soon the whole family come to value their new pet. Based on the popular novel by Fred Gipson.