The deer was very tame. Oldest children have the toughest row to hoe. There is a scene in a camera shop when Mark is looking at a dog and he turns into a lion. Marshall repeatedly and secretly gets even with his brothers by pulling revenge pranks of his own, like cleaning the toilet with his brothers' toothbrushes and filling their canteens with downstream river water into which they had been urinating. My primary faults with the film are not with the acting at all, but with the screenplay. Marty and Mark draw it on Marshall's chest and show it to an old Native American woman. Writer David Michael Wieger agrees. Marshall is attacked by an alligator, who can't seem to swim faster than a 12-year-old over a 20-yard stretch; the boys almost get bombed by Air Force jets on restricted government property, yet on that same property is a thriving herd of wild horses; Marshall is attacked by a moose, who angrily picks him up with his antlers and deposits him in some rapids (his brothers merely laugh); and the climax of the trip is the big secret bear cave, in which, apparently, rattlesnakes, bears and vampire bats cohabit peacefully. Strango would talk about hunting alligators and Phil would tell tall tales about bears. Strango would talk about hunting alligators and Phil would tell tall tales about bears. The scene was shot in cuts. I was outnumbered. ", "Wildlife Photographer Accused of Staging Scenes", "Producer of PBS 'Wild America' Series Under Fire", "Marty Stouffer Files Lawsuit Against National Geographic For Infringement Of Famous "Wild America" Brand", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marty_Stouffer&oldid=1141037832, Hannah Dale Stouffer, Luke Martin Stouffer, This page was last edited on 23 February 2023, at 01:24. . After a strange man saves Marshall after going down the stream, he too tells the brothers about the cave and where it is. Everything they do is for the first time, and that's a lot of hard, ground-breaking stuff. The filmmakers knew of the famous maxim about performing with children and animals, and met the challenge head-on. ",