A Tale of Two Critters

1977
G
48m

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A bear cub and a raccoon become fast friends when they're swept away down a river, away from their families.A bear cub and a raccoon become fast friends when they're swept away down a river, away from their families.A bear cub and a raccoon become fast friends when they're swept away down a river, away from their families.

Director
- Jack Speirs
Writer
- Jack Speirs
Star
- Mayf Nutter

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IMDb RATING

5.9/10

265

YOUR RATING

Director
- Jack Speirs
Writer
- Jack Speirs
Star
- Mayf Nutter

See production info at IMDbPro

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Soundtracks
Travelin' On
Music by Buddy Baker
Lyrics by Erika Borgeson and Jack Speirs (uncredited)

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Review

Featured review

4/10

Critters.

After seeing The Black Hole (1979-also reviewed) I decided to check for more obscure titles on Disney+. Checking the 70's flicks on the site,I spotted one I had never heard of before! Leading to me follow the tail of these two critters.

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Released as the B-Movie to The Rescuers, writer/director Jack Speirs scratches a pleasant atmosphere, where the staged bonding between the animals is sweetened by Mayf Nutter's cheerful narration and Buddy Baker's jaunty score.

Whilst a large amount of this "Nature Documentary" is clearly fake, (footage of a second bear appears to have been filmed in a completely different location!) Speirs still claws real moments of nature,swimming with zoom-ins towards a wolverine, bear cub and raccoon fighting with each other over nabbing a fish, as the two tails shake upstream.