Yellow Old Dog

IMDb link: 0050798
IMDb rating: 7.2 (16,657 votes)
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western, Family
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Fess Parker, Jeff York, Dorothy McGuire, Tommy Kirk, Chuck Connors, Chuck Connors and others

Release date: 10 Jul 1959
Release year: 1957
Runtime: 83 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: dog, rabies, texas, brother brother relationship, coming of age, stray dog, mother son relationship, father son relationship, dog movie, shooting a dog

Plot:

Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860's. A yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, and Travis reluctantly adopts the dog. After a series of scrapes involving racoons, snakes, bears, wild hogs and wolves, Travis grows to love and respect Old Yeller, who comes to have a profound effect on the boy's life.

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