Old Yeller

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Old Yeller Directed by Robert Stevenson Produced by Bill Anderson Written by Fred Gipson (novel and screenplay) William Tunberg Narrated by Starring Dorothy McGuire Fess Parker Kevin Corcoran Tommy Kirk Spike Voices Music Oliver Wallace Will Schaefer Cinematography Charles P. Boyle Editing Stanley E. Johnson Distributor Walt Disney Pictures Buena Vista Distribution Release date(s) December 25, 1957 Running time 83 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $10,050,000 MPAA Rating G Preceded by Followed by Savage Sam (1962) IMDb profile

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Old Yeller is a 1957 Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution feature film starring Tommy Kirk, Jeff York and Beverly Washburn about a boy and a stray dog in post-Civil War Texas, based upon the 1956 Newbery Honor-winning book Old Yeller by Fred Gipson. The screenplay was written by Gipson and William Tunberg and the film directed by Robert Stevenson. The success of Old Yeller led to a sequel also based on a Gipson book, Savage Sam.