Call of the Forest

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Ken Curtis, Charlie Hughes, Robert Lowery, Martha Sherrill, and Black Diamond in Call of the Forest (1949)

Bob Brand is looking for a lost gold mine. Storm Cloud makes friends with Bob's son Bobby and to repay Bob for the help he gave the Indians, he gives a map locating the mine to the boy.Bob Brand is looking for a lost gold mine. Storm Cloud makes friends with Bob's son Bobby and to repay Bob for the help he gave the Indians, he gives a map locating the mine to the boy.Bob Brand is looking for a lost gold mine. Storm Cloud makes friends with Bob's son Bobby and to repay Bob for the help he gave the Indians, he gives a map locating the mine to the boy.

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This movie has so many spliced in scenes from other movies, it is difficult to establish any type of location continuity. Scenes jump from Sedona type topography of Arizona and Utah, to oak studded savannahs of southern California. Many closeups of Bobby by a stream show semi-tropical ferns and other plants that are better suited to backdrops for Ramar of the Jungle.

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During the breaking of Bobby's horse King, a "bucking strap" is visible encircling the horse at the rear of the saddle. As King settles down and heads for the hitching post, the strap has disappeared.

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Git Along Little Dogies
Sung by Ken Curtis

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5/10

A knack with critters

The adult actors in this modern west drama play second fiddle to the animals and young Charlie Hughes in Call Of The Forest. In fact young master Hughes narrates the film in flashback, something a child actor is not called on to do normally.

For a kid from New York City Hughes takes to the wild west and loves life on his father's ranch. Ken Curtis also has a yen to claim a lost gold mine actually given to him by Chief Thundercloud in appreciation for the kindness Curtis has shown the Indians. Unfortunately there's a villain here in Robert Lowery who wants that lost mine for himself if it exists.

Most of the film is taken up with the taming of the black wild stallion King who takes to Hughes the way Fury took to Joey Newton. In fact there are a few similarities for this film to the old Fury series. In fact Hughes the city kid has all the wild life in the area liking him with the exception of a mountain lion. Don't fear about that though when the cougar meets up with King.

Call Of The Forest is a Lippert film and it's not a bad one for family viewing. In fact we never saw anyone on the big or small screen with quite the knack with 'Critters' until Elly Mae Clampett.