☆ ☆ ½
The
Incredible Journey (1963) – F. Markle
Maybe
we should have watched the 1993 remake but Amon and I stuck with this version
of the true story (?) that I recalled from my childhood. Two dogs and a cat made a 250-mile trek to
return to their owners’ house, somewhere in Canada. Fortunately, the animals don’t speak
themselves – there is a narrator (yodeller Rex Allen) who details the events in
a folksy (dated) style. A few humans
interact with the animals, usually helping them in some way; for example, one
couple removes porcupine quills from the golden retriever’s face after an unfortunate
encounter. The animal actors really are
quite good – interacting with a bear, for example – and did that cat really get
sucked into the raging river rapids? But, at the end of the day, I have to
concur with Amon who declared the film “too boring”. (Perhaps attention-spans and tastes have both
changed in the intervening decades?).
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