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Old Yeller

Name: Old Yeller
Released: 1957
Duration: 1 h 23 min
Rating: 84

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84 Metascore
1957
1 hr 23 mins
Action & Adventure, Drama, Family

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No film better portrays the powerful emotions of hope, courage and friendship. When his younger brother adopts a frisky, lop-eared stray dog, 15-year-old Travis (Tommy Kirk), acting "man-of-the-house," tries to shoo him away. But Old Yeller soon proves he is anything but "yellow" when he protects the family farm and saves Travis' life.

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Cast & Crew See All

Dorothy McGuire

Katie Coates

Fess Parker

Jim Coates

Tommy Kirk

Travis Coates

Awards

1958 - Golden Laurel - Top General Entertainment - winner
2019 - National Film Registry - National Film Preservation Board - winner

Latest News See All

Old Yeller Actor Kevin Corcoran Dies at 66

Corcoran played the youngest brother in the Disney classic

Thu, Oct 8, 2015

Old Yeller Actor Kevin Corcoran Dies at 66

Surface You know, this show keeps...

SurfaceYou know, this show keeps striving to emulate Spielberg, but this week, I couldn't get the darker side of Walt Disney out of my head. For starters, the entire plotline, which finds Dr. Laura and Crazy-Eyed Rich stranded at the bottom of the ocean, had me constantly making up highly inappropriate lyrics for "Under the Sea" — you remember that calypso confection from The Little Mermaid that effectively ruined the bulk of 1990. (A brief example of my handiwork: "The oxygen's always greener in somebody else's tank; if Lake Bell dies in this episode, maybe they

Tue, Nov 22, 2005