Dreadfully Boring

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Although there are a few select scenes that, to an adult, clearly indicate that this movie is fiction, please note that the film is presented more as a documentary than a fictitious story, similar to those old Wild America or National Geographic television programs.The concern with this is that there are many scenes that depict the general public interacting with these wild animals in a far too casual and inappropriate manner. For example, families feed the bears up-close and personally, out in the open, and not even from within their vehicles. There is also a scene in which, after the narrator states that the mother bear is "dangerous", a man who encounters her calls the Ranger for assistance, and then proceeds to attempt shooing this dangerous mother bear away with a chair like some kind of circus lion tamer! The boundaries between human beings and nature are definitely blurred for young minds. If you rent this movie you will no doubt have to re-educate your children on the do's & don'ts of wildlife safety.This movie was made in 1963.I don't think they'd get away with producing something this irresponsible today... Last year ago a woman visiting Banff put some honey on her son's hand so she could get a picture of him with the bear. The bear starting chewing on her son's hand. This past summer a man was mauled to death in Yellowstone because a mother bear was protecting her cubs and some hikers got too close.

While watching the Sunday Disney Movie one evening, our dad jumped up and yelled the "There's the 'Diaper Daddy' (dad always gave his vehicles names - from 1959 to 1964 he had at least 2 kids in diapers)! There in the background, was our red Chevy station wagon driving past with a large piece of plastic flapping in the wind. A couple of summers prior, we went on vacation, traveling from Valentine, Nebraska to Seattle Washington, stopping various places, including Yellowstone to see 'Old Faithful'. It seems that we were stopping at least once a day during the trip to re-tie the plastic to keep our luggage dry. By the time the movie had gone from the theater to the television, it had been a couple of years and we no longer had 'Diaper Daddy' and was driving 'Tator digger' because it bottomed out every time it hit a bump in the road. Bob C. Hookham

I rated it pretty high, because I remember it as an episode of Wonderful World of Disney from the early 1960s, and *I have not seen it since.* So I last saw the show about 45 years ago as a teenager. I do recall that, like most Disney shows, it was well produced, cleverly written, and the narration by Rex Allen was the perfect complement to the rest of the production.My family had bought a color television in 1958, and this was a color production. In fact, the Wonderful World Of Disney was one of the early color productions on NBC. Sunday evening was quite a treat.I still vividly remember the scene of the two little bears breaking into a cabin *and wrecking the place.* I especially the scene in which one of the bears climbed up to the cabinets and pulled the container of flour onto himself. Too Funny!

I was in this movie, it was interesting to see how it was developed. Many of the scenes were shot at Old Faithful Inn and in the surrounding areas. A long piano playing scene in the Inn was not used. One of my scenes showed me putting up a tent at the bottom of a hill and at the edge of a lake. This site was not far from the Old Faithful Inn. Two different hills were used for the filming. Sometimes the trailer was towed down a trail and the crew would pitch a log under the trailer to make it bounce, and the girls would throw things after the trailer. I did not like the 2nd site as it was steeper, and the loose trailer came at me very fast. I had to jump out of the way. On the last filming I dived in the water. I lost the hammer. I did not know that I could dive like that until I saw the movie when it played in Pocatello, Idaho. The grass had been sprayed green and there was ice on the water. The cast would go to a rangers cabin where a nearby hot pool could be used for bathing. The last time we went, I said, "We must be crazy, we're taking our clothes off in a blizzard." Many Yellowstone park savages (employees) were in the movie. I bought Chuck Draper a cowboy hat. MCCGARDEN@COMCAST.NET The scene noted by another reviewer where the bears tear up the kitchen was a re-shoot for more footage of destruction. A total of eight cubs was used to get the cub scenes. I think the Old Faithful employee kitchen area was used for filming.