The Tender Warrior
1971 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
The sheriff of a small Georgia town on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp does nothing to stop a family of white-trash moonshiners from trapping and killing defenseless animals. But Sammy, a young swamp-boy, takes matters into his own hands. Assisted by his pet chimp, Chuck, Sammy launches a campaign to free the trapped animals. "Pa" Lucas and his idiot sons don't take kindly to Sammy's scheme of beating them out of butter-and-egg money, and are soon chasing Sammy and Chuck over swamp and quagmire. As if young Sammy didn't have enough troubles eluding the Lucas family, he soon finds himself being hotly pursed by a leopard, an escapee from a circus.
Direction Stewart Raffill
Cast Dan Haggerty · Charles Lee · Liston Elkins · David DaLie · Johnny Hickox · Marie Braitley · Bobby Spikes
Soundtrack Kenneth Wannberg
Screenplay David DaLie · Stewart Raffill
Cinematography Gerardo H. Wenziner
Original title The Tender Warrior
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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