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Aug 5, 2019 · Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz. An entertaining and educational family value pic based on a prize-winning novel by Jean George. The screenplay is intelligently written by Joanna Crawford, Ted Sherdeman and Jane Klove. Director James B. Clark (“Flipper”/”Drums of Africa”/”Misty”)keeps the boy adventure tale lively, innocent and kid ...
Synopsis. Film adaption of the novel by Jean Craighead George. A family movie made by Paramount Studios, the story revolves around thirteen-year old Sam Gribley (Teddy Eccles), a devotee of Thoreau, as many were back in the in 1960's. Sam decides to leave the city (set in Toronto) to spend a sabbatical in the Canadian woods and see if he can ...
A family movie made by Paramount Studios, the story revolves around thirteen-year old Sam Gribley (Teddy Eccles), a devotee of Thoreau, as many were back in the in 1960's. Sam decides to leave the city (set in Toronto) to spend a sabbatical in the Canadian woods and see if he can make it as a self-sufficient spirit after his parents promise a ...
Since my son loved it, we bought the other two books in the set. We started reading the Far Side of the Mountain and it's already more interesting to me, so if you get this book and find it's slow, just hold on until the next book.
MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN stars 13-year-old Eccles as a young man who admires Henry David Thoreau. Emulating his hero, Sam runs away to live in the Canadian woodlands, leaving a note telling his ...
Winner of the PARENTS MAGAZINE GOLD MEDAL My Side Of The Mountain, based on the book by Jean George, is the unique adventure of thirteen-year-old Sam Gribley. Sam's hero is naturalist poet Henry David Thoreau, so Sam writes a note to his folks, packs up and leaves home for the challenge of wilderness living.
Sam, a brilliant child, leaves home for the mountains after being told that the family summer trip has been canceled, thus preventing him from doing the algae experiments he had planned for that summer. The film chronicles his struggle for independence, and with the forces of natures.
