The Adventures of Frontier Fremont (1975)
G | 96 mins | Western | 5 November 1975
Cast:
Dan Haggerty, Denver Pyle, Tony Miratti [ More ]Director:
Richard FriedenbergProducer:
Charles E. Sellier, Jr.Cinematographer:
George StaplefordEditors:
Sharron Miller, Steve Siegel, Stephen W. GrayProduction Company:
Schick Sun Classic ProductionsThe summary for this unviewed film was based on the 7 Dec 1976 Bangor Daily News review and contemporary news items.
"Jacob Fremont's" adventures were a composite of events from diaries and logs of real explorers and mountain men, the 2 Feb 1976 Box reported. Actors Dan Haggerty, Denver Pyle and Don Shanks played characters very similar to those they had portrayed two years earlier in Sun Classic Pictures' The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1975, see entry), also directed by Richard Friedenberg and produced by Charles E. Sellier, Jr.
Principal photography on The Adventures of Frontier Fremont began in the Wasatch Mountains near Salt Lake City the week of 23 Jun 1975, the 30 Jun 1975 Box noted.
UT Governor Calvin L. Rampton welcomed Sellier, Jr., and the cast and crew to his state in a full-page advertisement in the Salt Lake Tribune.
The 15 Mar 1976 Box reported that the Southern California Motion Picture Council presented Sellier, Jr. with an award for "producing and distributing worthwhile, high-quality family entertainment films," at a ceremony honoring The Adventures of Frontier Fremont on 1 Mar 1976.
Sun Classic Pictures was a successful "four wall" producer-distributor that rented venues for its movies regionally and promoted them heavily on local television stations, rather than releasing them nationwide. The company made heavy use of audience surveys and computer testing to determine what movies to make. Sun Classics' typical cost of testing each film was $85,000, while the cost of its average production was less than $250,000, according to the 24 Mar 1975 DV. ...
The summary for this unviewed film was based on the 7 Dec 1976 Bangor Daily News review and contemporary news items.
"Jacob Fremont's" adventures were a composite of events from diaries and logs of real explorers and mountain men, the 2 Feb 1976 Box reported. Actors Dan Haggerty, Denver Pyle and Don Shanks played characters very similar to those they had portrayed two years earlier in Sun Classic Pictures' The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1975, see entry), also directed by Richard Friedenberg and produced by Charles E. Sellier, Jr.
Principal photography on The Adventures of Frontier Fremont began in the Wasatch Mountains near Salt Lake City the week of 23 Jun 1975, the 30 Jun 1975 Box noted.
UT Governor Calvin L. Rampton welcomed Sellier, Jr., and the cast and crew to his state in a full-page advertisement in the Salt Lake Tribune.
The 15 Mar 1976 Box reported that the Southern California Motion Picture Council presented Sellier, Jr. with an award for "producing and distributing worthwhile, high-quality family entertainment films," at a ceremony honoring The Adventures of Frontier Fremont on 1 Mar 1976.
Sun Classic Pictures was a successful "four wall" producer-distributor that rented venues for its movies regionally and promoted them heavily on local television stations, rather than releasing them nationwide. The company made heavy use of audience surveys and computer testing to determine what movies to make. Sun Classics' typical cost of testing each film was $85,000, while the cost of its average production was less than $250,000, according to the 24 Mar 1975 DV. The 6 Nov 1977 LAT reported that the Salt Lake City, UT-based company had thirteen regional offices around the country. Sun Classic Pictures changed its name to Sunn Classic Pictures in 1977, soon after the release of The Adventures of Frontier Fremont.
Jacob Fremont, an Ohio farmer, heads west in 1835 to begin a new life of freedom and rugged independence on the American frontier. Crossing the desert, he is nearly killed by rattlesnakes. When he breaks a leg during a lightning storm, Jacobs settles down with a family of wolves until it heals, then presses forward with one of the pups. Jacob fends off coyotes with loud shouts (his handiest weapon against predators), canoes rivers and rapids, captures a wild horse, and saves a bear cub from a huge grizzly that he fights to the death. The wolf and the cub become Jacob's steady companions on the mountain where he builds his cabin. Jacob fights and then befriends a young brave from a local Indian tribe. He also learns the ways of the wild from an older mountain man named Big Bill Driggers. When Jacob chases off Kemp and Williams, a couple of fur traders who trap animals on his mountain, they burn down his cabin. The wind creates a raging forest fire, which kills the trappers, but Jacob's wolf leads him through the blinding smoke to ...
Jacob Fremont, an Ohio farmer, heads west in 1835 to begin a new life of freedom and rugged independence on the American frontier. Crossing the desert, he is nearly killed by rattlesnakes. When he breaks a leg during a lightning storm, Jacobs settles down with a family of wolves until it heals, then presses forward with one of the pups. Jacob fends off coyotes with loud shouts (his handiest weapon against predators), canoes rivers and rapids, captures a wild horse, and saves a bear cub from a huge grizzly that he fights to the death. The wolf and the cub become Jacob's steady companions on the mountain where he builds his cabin. Jacob fights and then befriends a young brave from a local Indian tribe. He also learns the ways of the wild from an older mountain man named Big Bill Driggers. When Jacob chases off Kemp and Williams, a couple of fur traders who trap animals on his mountain, they burn down his cabin. The wind creates a raging forest fire, which kills the trappers, but Jacob's wolf leads him through the blinding smoke to safety.
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