Runtime: 91 minutes
Directed by: William Girdler
Starring: Christopher George, Andrew Prine, Richard Jaeckel, Joan McCall, Joe Dorsey
From: Film Ventures International
A fun Jaws ripoff, this was. It’s free for me on Prime, I enjoyed director William Girdler’s Day of the Animals (where all the animals go bonkers, due to the depleted ozone layer) and if I ever do decide to check out the-apparently terrible, but what a backstory it has-film’s sequel, the OG effort needed to be checked out.
Yeah, this is full of casual 70’s sexism that was a product of its time but otherwise, the movie’s delightful even if the beats are predictable due to the obvious template they were following. Christopher George as Brody… er, I mean the lead park ranger in an unnamed National Park even has two buddies that help him out. His opinion of the opposite sex aside, he made a nice team w/ Andrew Prine’s helicopter pilot and Richard Jaeckel’s naturalist. Of course, there’s an idiot park supervisor that’s the equivalent of Amity Island’s mayor. The conversation between the trio was just delightful.
Also delightful was the northeastern Georgia rural location serving as the setting. Plenty of scenic rustic woods were on display. It was a nice formula they followed, and the formula wasn’t executed poorly. The cast was fine, the cinematography nice, the Robert O. Ragland score appropriate for what was on screen. Plus, it had an utterly hysterical ending and bloody moments—don’t think that children are immune. For a picture concerning an unnaturally huge grizzly bear in an area purported to have only brown bears… it is acceptable as B-movie entertainment.
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