The success of Disney Studio's "True-Life Adventure" films inspired similar projects. This film, produced and directed by a Disney veteran, is a handsomely mounted, informative feature with some strange casting. Fenneman (Groucho Marx's long-suffering announcer on the hit TV show "You Bet
Your Life") plays a naturalist sent off to a wildlife sanctuary in order to find out about the animal inhabitants. He has no luck until local girl McGough shows the fumbling scientist where to look. The professor is played by ventriloquist Bergen (sans sidekick Charlie McCarthy). The roles are
well played, but the real stars of the film are the various creatures Fenneman is suppos...
Released:
1953
Rated:
NR
Length:
64 mins