Movie Type: Animal Picture, Family-Oriented Adventure
Main Cast: Dean Cain, Corbin Bernsen, Ashley Laurence, Reiley McClendon, Holly McClendon
Release Year: 2003
Country: US
Run Time: 95 minutes
Plot
The second of two made-for-cable films inspired by the old Ivan Tors series Gentle Ben, Gentle Ben 2: Danger on the Mountain was more blatantly a "pilot" for the revival of the series than its predecessor. Dean Cain stars as Jack Wedloe, overseer of a North California wilderness preserve which serves as the home for himself, his young nephew Mark (Reiley McClendon) and a big, lovable bear named Gentle Ben. Trouble begins when Jack's headstrong friend, land developer Fog Benson (Corbin Bernsen), enters into a business arrangement with a pair of shady entrepreneurs. Intending to cultivate the land abutting Wedloe's preserve, Fog naïvely insists that his partners intend to open a natural spring-water business. By the time Fog realizes that his new cronies actually plan to drill for oil, poor Jack has been arrested on trumped-up charges and Mark is bundled off to a foster home. Not surprisingly, it is Gentle Ben who sets things right in his own inimitable bruin fashion. Gentle Ben 2: Danger on the Mountain debuted January 5, 2003 on the Animal Planet cable channel. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
David S. Cass, Sr. - Director, Jennifer Jean Cacavas - Editor, Larry Levinson - Executive Producer, Robert Halmi, Jr. - Executive Producer, H. Daniel Gross - Executive Producer, Steven Squillante - Executive Producer, Kevin Kliesch - Composer (Music Score), James W. Wrenn - Cinematographer, Stephen Bridgewater - Producer, Brian J. Gordon - Producer, Kyle A. Clark - Producer, Kevin Bocarde - Producer, Naomi Janzen - Teleplay By
