The Night of the Grizzly
1966
101 Min
Synopsis
Former sheriff Jim Cole (Clint Walker) finds it harder than expected to settle into his newly inherited run-down Wyoming ranch — he soon winds up fighting off both a greedy neighbor (Keenan Wynn) who wants the land for himself and a ferocious grizzly on a rampage. But when local ranchers put up a reward for whoever manages to take down the destructive bear, Cole decides he’s the one to get the job done and earn the money to keep his ranch.
Director
Joseph Pevney
Joseph Pevney (September 15, 1911 – May 18, 2008) was an American film and television director. Pevney was born on September 15, 1911 in New York City, New York. He made his debut in vaudeville as a boy soprano in 1924. Although he hated vaudeville, he loved the theatre and developed a career as a stage actor, appearing in such plays as Home of the Brave, The World We Make, Key Largo, Golden Boy and Nature Son. A short career as a film actor followed, his most notable appearance being in the classic 1947 boxing film Body and Soul, in which he played the role of Shorty Pulaski.
Subsequently Pevney became a prolific film and television director, with a directing career that spanned over 80 productions from 1950 to 1984. Among those were films including Female on the Beach (1955) with Joan Crawford and Jeff Chandler, Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) with Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Nielsen, the James Cagney vehicle Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), and Westerns such as The Plunderers… read more
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