Watch My Side of the Mountain (1969) Free Online

Release Date: 1969

Cast: Ted Eccles, Cosette Lee, Paul Hébert, Tudi Wiggins, Theodore Bikel

Categories: Movies, Adventure Drama, Drama Film, Family, Children'S/Family, Family Drama, Adventure

My Side of the Mountain is a 1969 film adaption of the novel by Jean Craighead George. A family movie by Paramount Pictures, the story revolves around thirteen-year old Sam Gribley (Teddy Eccles), a devotee of Thoreau, as many were back in the 1960s. Sam decides to leave the city (set in Toronto) to spend a sabbatical in the Canadian woods and see if he can make it as a self-sufficient spirit after his parents promise a summer trip that doesn't pan out. His immediate companion is his pet raccoon, Gus, which lives with him in the city. He gathers supplies at a local store and leaves his... MORE

My Side of the Mountain is a 1969 film adaption of the novel by Jean Craighead George. A family movie by Paramount Pictures, the story revolves around thirteen-year old Sam Gribley (Teddy Eccles), a devotee of Thoreau, as many were back in the 1960s. Sam decides to leave the city (set in Toronto) to spend a sabbatical in the Canadian woods and see if he can make it as a self-sufficient spirit after his parents promise a summer trip that doesn't pan out. His immediate companion is his pet raccoon, Gus, which lives with him in the city. He gathers supplies at a local store and leaves his family behind, hops on a bus and heads down the 401 with Gus to what he calls "the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec". In actuality he ends up in the picturesque town of Knowlton, Quebec, SE of Montreal, in the Notre Dame Mountains Range of the Appalachians. Here he finds the perfect mountain stream and pond location to build a home in an old dead tree. Now he can begin his long-awaited algae experiments, as well as prove his ability as a solitairy, young Thoreau living off the land and communing fully with nature. Sam wants badly not to have to feel needful of the urban and modern world, however after LESS