Bears And I, The (1974) - (Movie Clip) A Cardinal Rule For Bear Country

Bears And I, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) This Was His Home Country

Patrick Wayne’s opening narration as U.S. Army veteran Bob Leslie (a real person, the original author), hiking through the Cascades in British Columbia, and meeting friends and family of his late comrade, including Valentin de Vargas, Michael Ansara and Chief Dan George as Chief Peter, in Walt Disney’s The Bears And I, 1974.

Bears And I, The (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Sweet Surrender

Patrick Wayne, second son of John and his first wife Josephine Saenz, in one of his few starring roles, strides through the Cascades in British Columbia, directed by Bernard McEveety, with a licensed John Denver song that reached #13 that year, amid his streak of #1 hits, opening Walt Disney’s The Bears And I, 1974.