Disney Narrator Rex Allen tells the tale of Charlie the Lonesome
Cougar. Charlie is
another delightful documentary style fictional animal tale from Disney. It like several other Disney films has it’s
own opening theme song. Like Lobo and Nikki, Charlie starts the film as a babe
and grows into animal adulthood. Lumberman
Jess Bradley finds him one day in the forest as an orphan and quickly makes him
a part of his family. He soon becomes a part of the family of loggers
community. He comes to the kitchen and the cook feeds him. The cooks dog chainsaw doesn’t like him and
chases him around the kitchen causing things to break.
He has the usual mishaps of a Disney wild animal pet. He gets into
trouble causing mischief and mayhem. Playing with a rope tied to a rock he
unattaches it from the rock causing the cook house tent to float down the
river. Jess who was roped into being the cook after Charlie scared the last one
away, is sleeping only to be rudely awaken as the raft crashes into the rocks
on the river causing everything to spill all over the place which includes the
fire lit stove, causing the raft to be set on fire. Through a series of mishaps Charlie becomes
lost in the wilderness causing the cat to become more cougar like. Not the tame
domesticated friend of humans and foil of dogs but a real wild cat.
Does Charlie get back with his master? Does he survive the
wilderness? Does he survive that flume
ride down the log chute? One of the
interesting things about this movie is learning about how they ship lumber down
the river. It has some educational aspects through in. Also this is the first film released after
the death of uncle Walt. The first Disney film without the personal Disney
touch. But it is a good sendoff and
still retains the standard of family film quality of the Disney brand.
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