The Night of the Grizzly (Paramount Pictures) (1966)

“The Night Of The Grizzly” Might Start A New Trend According to Clint Walker Clint Walker likes to take his wife and daughter to the movies. But he doesn’t very often any more, because he hates to be embarrassed, or have them embarrassed, by what is shown upon the screen. He thinks motion pictures should be for the enjoyment of families, together, and he hasn’t been able to find many films of that calibre these days. “There’s a lot of talk lately,” says Clint, “that the industry’s Production Code maybe abandoned. Who’s kidding who? It was abandoned a long time ago. Today, sick sex and voyeurism are rampant in films.” Maybe one star can’t have too much impact, but Walker is certainly giving it a try. After rejecting a bundle of offered properties, Walker plunged his 6’6” frame into “The Night Of The Grizzly’ with all the enthusiasm at his command. The Paramount feature which opens ...... atthe-: <2 <<. Theatre, and in which he and Martha Hyer co-star, is a wholesome, Technicolor outdoor drama of the early West, contrived of nothing but action, suspense, adventure and excitement. “Tt just might start a new trend,” says Clint, “a return to ‘old wave’ virtues that made motion picture theatres the finest source of family entertainment in the country.” “The Night Of The Grizzly” is the first film under Clint’s two-picture pact with Paramount and it is based on his own, original story idea. It deals with a young frontier family which is nearly overwhelmed by one of nature’s most savage and implacable creatures, a monster grizzly bear. When no one else offered him the sort of vehicle he wanted to do, Clint came up with his story out of near desperation. He originally in tended it for Walt Disney, but when Paramount studio and production head Howard Koch learned of it, he nailed it down for his studio. “T’m not one of those actors who also wants to be the producer, director and writer,” says Clint. “That would be spreading it pretty thin. But it’s the star whose kisser is on the screen and he’s the guy the public holds responsible for the films he’s in. So, every once in a while, Tl step out of my element to get things rolling in the right direction.” Once Walker had pointed the direction, Paramount sprang into action. Burt Dunne, long the producer of Clint’s television series, “Cheyenne,” was signed as producer of “The Night Of The Grizzly.” Warren Douglas was set to write the screenplay and Joseph Pevney took on the job of directing. When the picture started shooting in the rugged San Bernardino Mountains, the cast also included Keenan Wynn, Regis Toomey, Nancy Kulp, Don Haggerty, Ellen Corby, Jack Elam, Kevin Brodie, Candy Moore and Victoria Paige Meyerink. “Tf there’s any message in this picture,” says Clint, “It’s a healthy, decent one. It deals with the sort of dreams that people can identify with—dreams that are worth fighting to achieve.” Mat 2A HARMONY AND CLOSENESS IS FIERCELY CHALLENGED by an intruder of the forest in Paramount’s Pictures’ “The Night Of The Grizzly,” filmed in Technicolor and Techniscope and starring Clint Walker and Martha Hyer. A blazing adventure film with excitement and drama, “The Night Of The Grizzly” is a film specifically created for family fare. It’s a wholesome and fascinating tale of a family’s struggles against the elements of nature in an untamed wilderness. Still #10422/49 Still #10422/Spee./1 Mat 3A ADVENTURE, EXCITEMENT AND ACTION FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY—That’s the story behind the story in Paramount Pictures’ “The Night Of The Grizzly,”’ which opens ............ at the Bula at su serecotens Theatre. Starring Clint Walker, Martha Hyer and Keenan Wynn, the film relates the story of a family’s struggle against hostile elements in an untamed wilderness. ~The Night Of The Grizzly"—Healthy Action Adventure Drama For Entire Family Despite differences, Clint Walker, 6’6”, and producer Burt Dunne, 5’8”, see eye-to-eye. They think movies should be designed so that every member of a family can enjoy them—together. That’s why they teamed up to make Paramount’s Technicolor feature “The Night Of The Grizzly,” which opens ........ <= BESMe w. 235% .... Theatre. The film has nothing going for it but action, adventure, suspense and wholesomeness. No sick sex, Peeping Tom-ism, far-outism, fadism, sadism, New Waves or fetish fripperies. For many years, as a story executive and television producer at Warner Bros., Dunne worked closely with MHollywood’s Production Code administration. For even more years, as a father, he’s been very active with the P.T.A. “That’s where you find out,’ he says, “that folks don’t like the tenor of most of the things that are coming to the screen nowadays. They don’t like being subjected to embarrassment in the theatre.” “The Night Of The Grizzly,” in which Walker and Martha Hyer co-star under the direction of Joseph Pevney, is the saga of a young American family that homesteads a section of land in the Wyoming wilderness of the 1880’s. A story of daring and high courage, it was an original idea of Walker’s, developed by Warren Douglas. Though this is their first theatrical feature together, Dunne and Walker are not a new producerstar team. At Warner’s, Dunne produced more than 100 hour-long TV shows for the “Bronco,” Sugarfoot”? and “The Alaskans”, as well as episodes of “Cheyenne.” A native of Miller, South Dakota, Dunne came to Hollywood in 1937 in order to perform. He never made it in front of a camera. He did get into show business, but it was as an usher at the Warner Bros. Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. Six months later he got himself transferred to the mail room at Warner Bros. But, somehow, he got sidetracked. The following year he became a secretary in the story department, then executive secretary to the studio production head. Later he became executive secretary to the television story department and in 1960 was made a producer of what were to become some of the studio’s most successful video series. ACTION-ADVENTURE Still #10422/84 Mat 2B DANGER THREATENS FROM EVERY CORNER in Paramount Pictures’ “The Night Of The Grizzly,” which opens .......... at the» ovis Theatre. Filmed in Techniscope and Technicolor and designed to be entertainment for the entire family, it stars Clint Walker, Martha Hyer, and Keenan Wynn. Produced by Burt Dunne and directed by Joseph Pevney, “The Night Of The Grizzly” relates the fascinating and adventurous story of a family’s struggles against hostile elements in an untamed wilderness.