Themes: Daring Rescues, Kidnapping, Man's Best Friend
Main Cast: Brian Keith, Tommy Kirk, Dewey Martin, Jeff York
Release Year: 1963
Country: US
Run Time: 103 minutes
Plot
Savage Sam is the sequel to the successful Disney film Old Yeller. This time, the boys take off after a band of Apache kidnappers who have snatched the children of lazy neighbor Bud Searcy (Jeff York). With their true-blue bloodhound Sam, the kids take off with Brian Keith to take back the missing children. The viewer may be confused with the lightheartedness that accompanies the gravity of such an abduction and then is abandoned in favor of a more serious flavor later in the film. Norman Tokar directed this uneven feature that fared far less better at the box office than is predecessor. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
Carroll Clark - Art Director, Marvin Aubrey Davis - Art Director, William Anderson - Co-producer, Gertrude Casey - Costume Designer, Chuck Keehne - Costume Designer, Norman Tokar - Director, Grant K. Smith - Editor, Oliver Wallace - Composer (Music Score), Terry Gilkyson - Songwriter, Pat McNalley - Makeup, Edward Colman - Cinematographer, Bill Anderson - Producer, Hal G. Gausman - Set Designer, Emile Kuri - Set Designer, Eustace Lycett - Special Effects, Jim Fetherolf - Special Effects, Fred Gipson - Screenwriter, William Tunberg - Screenwriter, Fred Gipson - Book Author
