Where the Red Fern Grows

Where the Red Fern Grows

97 mins | Drama, Family | June 21, 1974

Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for two years to achieve his dream of buying two red-bone coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in life as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with his dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann.

Where the Red Fern Grows

97 mins | Drama, Family | June 21, 1974

Where the Red Fern Grows
Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for two years to achieve his dream of buying two red-bone coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in life as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with his dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers Doty-Dayton Production
Original title Where the Red Fern Grows
Directors Norman Tokar
Writers Douglas C. Stewart, Wilson Rawls, Eleanor Lamb

Cast

Stewart Petersen

as Billy Colman

James Whitmore

as Grandpa

Beverly Garland

as Mother

Jack Ging

as Father

Lonny Chapman

as Sheriff

Jill Clark

as Alice

Jeanna Wilson

as Sara

Bill Thurman

as Sam Bellington

Bill Dunbar

as Ben Kyle

Rex Corley

as Rubin Pritchard

John Lindsey

as Rainie Pritchard

Garland McKinney

as Mr. Pritchard