starring
Teddy Eccles , Theodore Bikel
Thirteen-year-old Sam Gribley , who hopes one day to be a botanist, decides to leave home and emulate his hero Thoreau by living alone for a year in the woods of the Canadian mountains. Armed with microscope, books and camping equipment, and accompanied by =his pet raccoon Gus, he boards an East-bound bus out of Toronto.
Screenplay by TED SHERDEMAN , JANE KLOVE and JOANNA CRAWFORD based on the novel by JEAN GEORGE
Produced by ROBERT B. RADNITZ
Directed by JAMES b. CLARK. Films: p 25