Cry Wilderness (film)

For the MST3K episode, see MST3K 1102 - Cry Wilderness.

Cry Wilderness is a 1987 family movie that was directed and co-produced by Jay Schlossberg-Cohen.

Plot

A boy flees his oppressive boarding school in order to save his father, a forest ranger, who is in danger. He is helped by a Bigfoot-like creature, whom he had befriended the previous summer.

Cast

• Eric Foster - Paul Cooper
• Maurice Grandmaison - Will Cooper
• John Tallman - Jim
• Griffin Casey - Morgan Hicks
• Faith Clift - Dr. Helen Foster
• Navarre Perry - Mr. Douglas

Notes

• Many of the locations used in this film are in California, including the Old Los Angeles Zoo which served as Bigfoot's cave.
• Writer Philip Yorman had won an Academy Award for Best Story for the 1954 western Broken Lance.

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