My dad made me watch this when I was a young one. Man I couldn't wait for it to end. Now I'm making my boys watch it with me with a tear in my eye. Miss ya dad....really thought the old man was gonna turn murderer in the last 30 seconds
My dad showed me this movie at a very young age .. he loved the great Pyrenees dogs .. so I loved them and the movie . I saw my first big Pyrenees in Jasper at that age at the lodge that burnt down yesterday sadly . This movie inspired my life . I later got a great Pyrenees and moved to the mountains in bc which was my dad's dream... I asked everyone in the family about the movie and no one knew anything not even my mom remembers the movie .I searched online often for years...until a couple years ago I searched again and a site that had listings of dogs in movies told me it was this movie then I Google it and find it here . I watched it many times and cry . This movie alone inspired the biggest parts of my life... I spend all my best time with nature . I caught one of my best bass on my river yesterday and went to the waterfall when I connected with the trees . Dad would have loved these things and the fact I even found the movie he showed me like 35 years ago . Miss you dad love you
This is a great piece of art this film. Great shot of nature and camera work. I prefer this type of film because it is a fine example of natural human values unlike the garbage that is being pushed nowadays. This is real inspiration for survival. Thank you for putting it up. I was a child of the seventies and somehow this one got by me.
I loved The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, back in the 70’s. The opening shots were shot somewhere around Brighton Ski Resort in Utah, I believe. It was a much simpler time back then.
What a fine and well-produced film, with a beautiful story. It is a great pleasure to watch it and it is very thoughtful and certainly relevant for an audience in 2024. There are skilled professionals behind it, it is beautifully filmed and it seems very modern in angle, cut and the speaking is fantastic. It seems very personal and I feel it speaks directly to me. It is simply an experience that extends beyond the playing time.
Watched these with my dad when I was a youngster in the late 90s first time I seem it since, never forgot the ending or sleeping with one leg in the cold so the rest of you is thankful for the warmth. Thanks for the upload.
Saw this movie when it was first originally released in theatres; had forgotten much of it, but Man!, that _"ending"_ really sticks with you and haunts you! (Why are so many movies AFRAID to take *_"memorable"_* risks like that?) Was only able to relive this story just a few months ago, as it's even nearly impossible to track it down online! Hell... not even *WIKIPEDIA* has a page mentioning it, let alone a page actually _"dedicated"_ to it! We can get all kinds of "C-Movie" trash "REMASTERED" on Blu-ray, and yet we can't even get something this iconic to receive even the most basic proper DVD release? What gives? As with everyone else, I'd like to Thank You for making it possible for us to relive the experience, even though it's not in the most pristine of presentations.
Saw this one in 1981 - looked for it many times after, and unsuccessful until now. Thanks for making it available once again, Michael - a great prelude to what is disappearing in Society.
Wonderful movie...moving and touching and very emotional on many levels. My first time seeing the movie. I currently live in California in a populated city. I yearn to live near the woods and rivers and mountains. I know my soul is seeking a quieter more simpler life away from the city and all its people and noises. I'm not sure what path to take to get there but I am putting it out to the universe through a deep and powerful prayer and intention. I want to wake up to the sound of birds and the wind, feel the rain on my face, see deer and squirrels and wildlife all around me....take a walk through the woods every day, swim in a pond or lake.To have privacy and tranquility every day.....I will never give up hope that I will find my new home some day. I am so inspired by this man's passion and gusto to live the life he desires and to do so at any cost. I feel like if this movie had continued he would have continued his journey onward and would have eventually found a new home that was pleasing to him.
Born & raised in Anchorage, now 60 and growing my sourdough, fermenting berries, moose & fish jerky, mushrooms, bark saps. Groing up the eskimos were degraded into American false life. The mountain men drank and were rough & dangerous. Now im loving the cabin life of nature. Wild Alaskan, running with the wolves. Snow birding to outback in San Diego with Indians and deserts in Mexico with the Mayans. Nature is different everywhere and honored in my aurora heart light. Bless You for such a beautiful movie, nature is the glorious danger worth every second.
@Cee Dub619cameraman I lived in San Diego for 35 years! I want2go back! Now in Deathzona! The heat is on! Alaska on my mind! Dream up some coolness! Splash pads!
Almost seven years away from Ketchikan Alaska and my little island Gravina I'll be back there before my 8th year! I promise!!! This Lower 48 ant no way to live Brother. Back to the wild And back to life!
10 months on since my last comment on this movie and every single night since then, this is my bedtime story. My favourite movie ever. Thanks again, for posting 🌺🦋
For a quasi-documentary, I felt like this really let us peek into the heart and the experiences of the old-timers of 200 (and less) years ago. A forgotten world for the vast majority. Thank you, Michael Thornton, for posting this. I so appreciate all the effort the producers put into making this. It is an artifact of lost history and that way of life, that way of being. A real treasure, just the memory of it.
Life in both big cities and small towns, not to mention farms, 200 (and less) years ago was a tad different, too. If life 200 years ago was so great, then life 400 years ago must have been really wonderful.
@Kenneth Quesenberry It depends on how you want to and currently do live. But yeah mostly it was better. Now we have people who live in cities like fucking rats, trying to tell everybody else how to live their lives. If THEY lived more frugally, the areas they live in wouldn't be so disgusting. I don't have a smog problem anywhere near me, I don't have trash from disgusting people, I don't have to worry about violence from random people, I don't have city water or city sewage, and I don't need a grocery store to buy my food from. Cities are disgusting, and so are the people that made them that way.
@@tedkaczynskiamericanhero3916 I'm from southern West Virginia. No big cities there but you should see what mining has done to everything. People aren't all that polite and clean, either. Now I live where it's clean, fairly quiet, safe and I even have deer in the back yard. My wife doesn't like that so much, though, because they eat her flowers. I live just outside of Washington, D.C.
I used to rent this at video express back when I was a teenager. Don't know why I ever first rented it but once I did I fell in love with it. Made the year I was born. Love so many things about it. Thank you for posting.
This is the first time I see this movie. What a treasure! I am fortunate to pass my summers in the wilderness where there is no cell phone service, where the only electrical power is solar, where it is common to see black bears, moose, wolves, beaver, snowshoe hares, balde Eagles and more. We fish, hunt, gather berries and other wild edibles. Thank you for posting this to RUclips.
What a great documentary of a pioneer. Sure loved this for a quiet Christmas evening. I really loved how much he respected the earth, his pets, and giving the mountain goats their space. How incredible that journey was through the glacier. Feel bad people had to go through his hard-earned food and disrespected his home. I have never seen this before. I am so glad his puppies made it back to him after the river tipped them over. Love seeing documentaries on Alaska. I would be afraid of grizzlies and a hungry pack of wolves. But I live on an island in Alaska, that's 35 miles wide by 55 miles long. There are some animals here but no huge game like elk or moose. Black bear and mountain goats are the biggest game. Oh, wait...bigfoot lurks about! lol If you come to Alaska, enjoy the beauty and fresh air. Make sure you plan your adventure ahead of time and have a guide for tours and hiking expeditions. I hope you loved watching this as much as I did.
This movie and The Last Trapper are classic. I'm 71 now and spent my life living in the wilderness travelling to many countries climbing, backpacking, kayaking living amongst native people. These days I live in SE Asia in a village of 400.
Your uncle was a blessed man, it would seem. Thank you for posting this. It's a fine film. I don't think it can be truly understood by anyone who has never spent considerable time in the wild. Maybe this will inspire those more brave to give it a try.
I just absolutely loved this show. I have a dream and this is it. To old to start now but sure enjoyed the dreaming part of watching this really great show.
How has this film 40 Yeats old and I've never seen it? I suppose maybe the title threw me? Or the decade it was filmed had me figuring it would be no better than Mountain Family Robinson or Grizzly Adams? This story is bittersweet...not sad or depressing. Thank you ever so much for putting this on RUclips. What a treasure🍃♥
I remember watching this with Mom and Dad when I was growing up eating soup beans and cornbread great times and memories hadn't seen it in years glad you posted this , Thanks
Yes, thank you so very much to any and all that are responsible for this film of 1977 in Alaska! I just loved it so much, being that I had lived in Alaska for 16 years, besides my older son, and my husband, current, that I met in Alaska, who had lived up there 21 years! And then the 10-year-old son who was born up there in Alaska! He was 10 when we moved out of Alaska… We had lived in Palmer & Wasilla & Anchorage... i’m kind of surprised I hadn’t seen this film already! Loved the sourdough or the main actor! Don’t know his real name I guess… Plus loved the other people in the film… It taught me and I got to see things that I had heard about, but never saw…
That was AMAZING! Great story from the earlier times, so much unique stunning footage and moments. What an utmost pleasure, thank you very much for sharing!
I dearly love stories of ole sourdoughs living alone in the wild of Alaska. They have much to pass on to the young'uns seeing adventure and a solitary live.
Reminds me of my great grand dad he owned an old lodge back in the day it was on the Valdese highway called the sourdough it was on the list of historic places in alaska till it burned down
great movie . I now spend my summers in the woods on the Idaho, montana border. more people coming into the woods daily on snow machines, atv's, motorcycles and now these UTVs. mostly on weekends. I stay away from the crowds on weekends and just enjoy the sounds of nature and the crackling of the campfire and a good cup of coffee. At 75 years , I don't like the hustle and bustle of city life. only go to town for food and supplies. This year I want to see the wolves. Hear them occasionally but they are so elusive.
that ending really smacks you in the face. First time seeing this. Really enjoyed it. Thanks for putting it up. I guess one cant complain about the ending....sad part is its still perfectly relevant...now more than ever 40 years down the line
@Cee Dub619cameraman As i said, Only the story line was fictional. My Uncle and Cousin actually lived this life for 3 years while filming this movie. I think they may have based the story on an actual person, but it wasn't my uncle. He just was a natural Sourdough:)
So many father son posta on here and i love it . Share with your kids folks .this movie litterally became my whole inspiration in life . And i didnt realize it and found the movie after searching for 30 years . My dad would have loved to see it again and see the nature here in bc.
There is only one flaw in this movie. In Alaska we call them "snow machines" not snow mobiles but that is just a lesson for those on "the outside" (lower 48). I've watched this every year since I was a boy in the long winter. Loved it so much I moved up here12 years ago. Literally left everything behind except my dogs! Don't exactly live out in the bush like he does, but it's still heaven. The hardest part of watching this was seeing the dogs struggle on the river. As a dog guy, it killed me to see that happen. Always so happy to see that they both lived. Don't know what I would do if I lost mine. Sadly, I have nothing else just like the Mountain Man friend here. Man has ruined many beauties in the world and slowly I too see Alaska fade into the "outside" way of life. People in their cute little North Face Jackets and commercial walking poles seem to ruin the rugged nature here. Most have been horrible when the madness began starting in the 50s as some of this beautiful state slipped into the modern way of life. I'll die here smiling in this, the most beautiful State the US has to offer.
I liked the movie. Depressing at times yet peaceful, serene, and would love to live that way at times. I know I'd miss the modern things too.Tough choices.
very stupidly i clicked on this thinking it was an old recipe for making sourdough ( healthy bread ) but like all my mistakes in life they always lead me to a higher education on improving the way i see life and want to live. i live in the UK and pretty much stay away from people and society , i built a couple of cabins in the back garden and thats where i stay ! constantly creating life in plant form , harvesting seeds and taking a huge variety of them to the country side to spread , apple trees, pear, plum, beans ,peas and plenty of wild flowers , i figure the world is so messed up it needs fixing, costs me nothing but an early morning walk and a few holes dug .
Imagine waking up living off grid with no bills to pay.😱😱 the sheer peace and quiet, my 3 dogs, the views of nature. I would sleep better at nights I would choose this lifestyle. Furthermore This video has convinced me to avoid city living.
This movie will remain a treasure in my book. I saw it as a 15 yr old boy living in Anchorage, Alaska during the Fur Rendezvous in 1977. Sure no special effects like that summers Star Wars, or superstar celebrity actors but it resonates so well. My experience with movies is people get out of a movie what they're looking for. (Total bombs excluded) If you're expecting light saber battles this isn't the movie. If you're looking for someone carving out an existence on their terms, here you go.
I look up and see 1977 was the print of this and it kinda reflects my feelings too. I been here for most of the forty plus years here in alaska starting in the south east and working my way north without ever knowing it. I am not impressed with the way life as a whole has came around. No legal government anymore... just business men taking as much as they can horde for themselves. I'm 73 and don't know if tomorrow will come without me or not as health is really failing fast. Legs are gone and most of me hurts forever. I loved the movie cause it wasn't sugar coated.
🐾👣 saw this when it first came out in 77 spent my first winter in abandon cabin in outer willow in 73 nice to know where some of us old timers did fit in life's past alaskan times 🌲
My dad made me watch this when I was a young one. Man I couldn't wait for it to end. Now I'm making my boys watch it with me with a tear in my eye. Miss ya dad....really thought the old man was gonna turn murderer in the last 30 seconds
I thought, where is his gun? 😢He looked like that for a second but turned around and cried walking away.
I watch My reliance and now I came across this story thanks for sharing I loved it! My reliance is a modern version some!
He reached the summit only to realize there was no place man hasn't corrupted
My dad showed me this movie at a very young age .. he loved the great Pyrenees dogs .. so I loved them and the movie . I saw my first big Pyrenees in Jasper at that age at the lodge that burnt down yesterday sadly . This movie inspired my life . I later got a great Pyrenees and moved to the mountains in bc which was my dad's dream... I asked everyone in the family about the movie and no one knew anything not even my mom remembers the movie .I searched online often for years...until a couple years ago I searched again and a site that had listings of dogs in movies told me it was this movie then I Google it and find it here . I watched it many times and cry . This movie alone inspired the biggest parts of my life... I spend all my best time with nature . I caught one of my best bass on my river yesterday and went to the waterfall when I connected with the trees . Dad would have loved these things and the fact I even found the movie he showed me like 35 years ago . Miss you dad love you
This is a great piece of art this film. Great shot of nature and camera work. I prefer this type of film because it is a fine example of natural human values unlike the garbage that is being pushed nowadays. This is real inspiration for survival. Thank you for putting it up. I was a child of the seventies and somehow this one got by me.
I loved The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, back in the 70’s. The opening shots were shot somewhere around Brighton Ski Resort in Utah, I believe.
It was a much simpler time back then.
Such a beautiful, but also sad insight into the old country and one mans life.
Thanks for the upload of this gem. 😚
Found this accidentally. Glad I did. Loved it.
I found it on accident too!!! So glad I did.I was looking for something great to watch for Christmas!!
I've watched this about ten times now. Just an awesome treasure of film. Thank you.
What a fine and well-produced film, with a beautiful story. It is a great pleasure to watch it and it is very thoughtful and certainly relevant for an audience in 2024. There are skilled professionals behind it, it is beautifully filmed and it seems very modern in angle, cut and the speaking is fantastic. It seems very personal and I feel it speaks directly to me. It is simply an experience that extends beyond the playing time.
My Dad and I watched this when I was young. This is such a special film for me. Thank you so much for uploading it.
Watched these with my dad when I was a youngster in the late 90s first time I seem it since, never forgot the ending or sleeping with one leg in the cold so the rest of you is thankful for the warmth. Thanks for the upload.
Saw this movie when it was first originally released in theatres; had forgotten much of it, but Man!, that _"ending"_ really sticks with you and haunts you! (Why are so many movies AFRAID to take *_"memorable"_* risks like that?) Was only able to relive this story just a few months ago, as it's even nearly impossible to track it down online! Hell... not even *WIKIPEDIA* has a page mentioning it, let alone a page actually _"dedicated"_ to it! We can get all kinds of "C-Movie" trash "REMASTERED" on Blu-ray, and yet we can't even get something this iconic to receive even the most basic proper DVD release? What gives? As with everyone else, I'd like to Thank You for making it possible for us to relive the experience, even though it's not in the most pristine of presentations.
Saw this one in 1981 - looked for it many times after, and unsuccessful until now. Thanks for making it available once again, Michael - a great prelude to what is disappearing in Society.
Frank Wallwor
💖🙏☯️🈳🈚💫(*˘︶˘*).｡*♡
I looked for it back then, but it had passed me by. Good to find it!
Wonderful movie...moving and touching and very emotional on many levels. My first time seeing the movie. I currently live in California in a populated city. I yearn to live near the woods and rivers and mountains. I know my soul is seeking a quieter more simpler life away from the city and all its people and noises. I'm not sure what path to take to get there but I am putting it out to the universe through a deep and powerful prayer and intention. I want to wake up to the sound of birds and the wind, feel the rain on my face, see deer and squirrels and wildlife all around me....take a walk through the woods every day, swim in a pond or lake.To have privacy and tranquility every day.....I will never give up hope that I will find my new home some day. I am so inspired by this man's passion and gusto to live the life he desires and to do so at any cost. I feel like if this movie had continued he would have continued his journey onward and would have eventually found a new home that was pleasing to him.
I hope to have you as my neighbor .
My dad and I watched this when I was a kid. He loved this type of movie. Thank you for uploading!
Born & raised in Anchorage, now 60 and growing my sourdough, fermenting berries, moose & fish jerky, mushrooms, bark saps. Groing up the eskimos were degraded into American false life. The mountain men drank and were rough & dangerous. Now im loving the cabin life of nature. Wild Alaskan, running with the wolves. Snow birding to outback in San Diego with Indians and deserts in Mexico with the Mayans. Nature is different everywhere and honored in my aurora heart light.
Bless You for such a beautiful movie, nature is the glorious danger worth every second.
Cindy Balog you still live in anchorage....
Youv lived my dream now 57 I'm still looking to move outa maine... one day hopefully
Your life seems poetic. Ah, my wish, too.
Love to come out and see u one day, sounds like heaven, Alaska has always been a dream, I’ll get there one day
your name is hungarian?
I envy you,i'd love to live in Alaska
@Cee Dub619cameraman I lived in San Diego for 35 years! I want2go back! Now in Deathzona! The heat is on! Alaska on my mind! Dream up some coolness! Splash pads!
Thank you for saving this forgotten classic!
Chris Last You can thank my friend Mykael who introduced me to this classic; it's well worth saving and sharing!
Almost seven years away from Ketchikan Alaska and my little island Gravina I'll be back there before my 8th year! I promise!!!
This Lower 48 ant no way to live Brother. Back to the wild
And back to life!
This fine film resonates in the heart and guts of a Man!
10 months on since my last comment on this movie and every single night since then, this is my bedtime story. My favourite movie ever. Thanks again, for posting 🌺🦋
I love you
Such a beautiful movie! Breath of fresh air! Thank you for posting it.
I’m isolated in my room with Covid and this popped up on RUclips. What a perfect movie to watch while in lockdown. Great photography, great music.
Wow, OldLeatherGuy, what a writer you are!!! This a a wonderful film!!
I watched this movie 25 years ago on late night TV. I thought it was the greatest movie ever and I was never able to find it till just now.
Watching this again in August, 2023 probably the 10th time watching!!
For a quasi-documentary, I felt like this really let us peek into the heart and the experiences of the old-timers of 200 (and less) years ago. A forgotten world for the vast majority. Thank you, Michael Thornton, for posting this. I so appreciate all the effort the producers put into making this. It is an artifact of lost history and that way of life, that way of being. A real treasure, just the memory of it.
Life in both big cities and small towns, not to mention farms, 200 (and less) years ago was a tad different, too. If life 200 years ago was so great, then life 400 years ago must have been really wonderful.
@Kenneth Quesenberry It depends on how you want to and currently do live.
But yeah mostly it was better.
Now we have people who live in cities like fucking rats, trying to tell everybody else how to live their lives.
If THEY lived more frugally, the areas they live in wouldn't be so disgusting.
I don't have a smog problem anywhere near me, I don't have trash from disgusting people, I don't have to worry about violence from random people, I don't have city water or city sewage, and I don't need a grocery store to buy my food from.
Cities are disgusting, and so are the people that made them that way.
@@tedkaczynskiamericanhero3916 I'm from southern West Virginia. No big cities there but you should see what mining has done to everything. People aren't all that polite and clean, either. Now I live where it's clean, fairly quiet, safe and I even have deer in the back yard. My wife doesn't like that so much, though, because they eat her flowers. I live just outside of Washington, D.C.
I used to rent this at video express back when I was a teenager. Don't know why I ever first rented it but once I did I fell in love with it. Made the year I was born. Love so many things about it. Thank you for posting.
Have seen this movie many times but could watch it over and over
This is the first time I see this movie. What a treasure! I am fortunate to pass my summers in the wilderness where there is no cell phone service, where the only electrical power is solar, where it is common to see black bears, moose, wolves, beaver, snowshoe hares, balde Eagles and more. We fish, hunt, gather berries and other wild edibles. Thank you for posting this to RUclips.
What a great documentary of a pioneer. Sure loved this for a quiet Christmas evening. I really loved how much he respected the earth, his pets, and giving the mountain goats their space. How incredible that journey was through the glacier. Feel bad people had to go through his hard-earned food and disrespected his home. I have never seen this before. I am so glad his puppies made it back to him after the river tipped them over. Love seeing documentaries on Alaska. I would be afraid of grizzlies and a hungry pack of wolves. But I live on an island in Alaska, that's 35 miles wide by 55 miles long. There are some animals here but no huge game like elk or moose. Black bear and mountain goats are the biggest game. Oh, wait...bigfoot lurks about! lol If you come to Alaska, enjoy the beauty and fresh air. Make sure you plan your adventure ahead of time and have a guide for tours and hiking expeditions. I hope you loved watching this as much as I did.
That was an amazing documentary..🙂 Thank you so much. that's what I needed today..👏👏
That was one of the nicest movies that I have seen in a long long time 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 the things that Hollywood puts out anymore are discussing and vile.
I agree. Just the thought that God will bring us back into paradise. Come lord Jesus come.
I agree. Imagine what heaven is going to be like if the beauty God put here is corrupt.
Yet i bet you voted for trump 🤮😂🤣 because he’s so righteous and pure
@@Nomzai Get a life
@@kutie216I know eh...what a tool bag
Love these old shows like this more of them please.envy the men who lived this life style something about it.
This movie and The Last Trapper are classic.
I'm 71 now and spent my life living in the wilderness travelling to many countries climbing, backpacking, kayaking living amongst native people. These days I live in SE Asia in a village of 400.
@@user-kb5fi1hm3u Do you have access to Starlink?
That was a very nice documentary/movie. Felt sorry for the old guy at the end. I definitely know how he feels
Omg thank u fir posting,loves these Docs,wish more people were like this ol fella,RIP ..
I remember watching this movie with my pop back in the day.. Glad you made it available on YT. It was a pleasure to watch again as an adult.
A Timeless movie this one here, if you haven't seen it's well worth watching. Unlike all the garbage that's coming out today!
Your uncle was a blessed man, it would seem. Thank you for posting this. It's a fine film. I don't think it can be truly understood by anyone who has never spent considerable time in the wild. Maybe this will inspire those more brave to give it a try.
I just absolutely loved this show. I have a dream and this is it. To old to start now but sure enjoyed the dreaming part of watching this really great show.
I will go with am I am 58. I just need cheeerful helper.
My Dad came across a copy of this on vhs sometime back in the late 90s and would watch it on a regular basis. Really great memories.
Great film. We can travel back in time. Love to all north americans from Greece.
This has always been one of my all time favorite movies! It has been 20+ years since I last watched it. Thank you so very much for sharing it.😊
This is a great film ..enjoyed every minute of it thanks for sharing.
I watch this documentary in 1979 with my pop love it then thanks for putting it on you tube brought back memories
How has this film 40 Yeats old and I've never seen it? I suppose maybe the title threw me? Or the decade it was filmed had me figuring it would be no better than Mountain Family Robinson or Grizzly Adams? This story is bittersweet...not sad or depressing. Thank you ever so much for putting this on RUclips. What a treasure🍃♥
I remember watching this with Mom and Dad when I was growing up eating soup beans and cornbread great times and memories hadn't seen it in years glad you posted this , Thanks
I'm pretty sure that's the best movie I've ever watched.
This Planet is so beautiful.
How lucky we are to have enjoyed it so.
-❤️Nature.
Yes, thank you so very much to any and all that are responsible for this film of 1977 in Alaska! I just loved it so much, being that I had lived in Alaska for 16 years, besides my older son, and my husband, current, that I met in Alaska, who had lived up there 21 years! And then the 10-year-old son who was born up there in Alaska! He was 10 when we moved out of Alaska… We had lived in Palmer & Wasilla & Anchorage... i’m kind of surprised I hadn’t seen this film already! Loved the sourdough or the main actor! Don’t know his real name I guess… Plus loved the other people in the film… It taught me and I got to see things that I had heard about, but never saw…
His name was Gilbert Hoyt Perry...and he was truly a wonderful and amazing man!
@@ldees7393 And hispanic.
That was AMAZING! Great story from the earlier times, so much unique stunning footage and moments. What an utmost pleasure, thank you very much for sharing!
What a great old film! I truly enjoyed it!
There is a book called Alaska Sourdough, the life story of “Slim Whitman”, I read it as a kid, and bought it for my own boys. It was a great read.
Thanks for posting this fine film. thoroughly enjoyed it :)
I dearly love stories of ole sourdoughs living alone in the wild of Alaska. They have much to pass on to the young'uns seeing adventure and a solitary live.
This is one of the best movies I have watched. Wish they made movies like this today. Thanks so much for uploading this wonderful movie.❤🙌👍
Reminds me of my great grand dad he owned an old lodge back in the day it was on the Valdese highway called the sourdough it was on the list of historic places in alaska till it burned down
When did it burn?
Thanks for posting. Have not seen it since i was a young lad.
So glad I stumbled upon this classic, sure makes a man want sell everything quit the job and leave society for the bush and never come back.
This is now one of my favorite movies, I was so relieved you all survived the raft ❤❤❤
I have the original reel on film.
My Grandpa Richard McMillan was one of the producers
Shoop Da Whoop Any notion on having that print scanned for archival purposes?
Didn't see his name on the credits?
Hey Shoop! Any interest in parting with that old reel?
@@AK_Brickster
What a S T U P I D ? ! ! !
@@foldelops what's so stupid about asking a question? Wasn't directed at you. Feel free to move along, smart aleky chee chako.
I love watching this stuff, thank you very kindly.
great movie . I now spend my summers in the woods on the Idaho, montana border. more people coming into the woods daily on snow machines, atv's, motorcycles and now these UTVs. mostly on weekends. I stay away from the crowds on weekends and just enjoy the sounds of nature and the crackling of the campfire and a good cup of coffee. At 75 years , I don't like the hustle and bustle of city life. only go to town for food and supplies. This year I want to see the wolves. Hear them occasionally but they are so elusive.
How is it going there ?
dufus How about any Sasquatch??
This is the kind of movie I love when I’m winding down at night
that ending really smacks you in the face. First time seeing this. Really enjoyed it. Thanks for putting it up. I guess one cant complain about the ending....sad part is its still perfectly relevant...now more than ever 40 years down the line
What an AMAZING, Man, Life, Story and BEARD!!
Great picture!! If only I could live life over, it would have been just like this. Just didn’t know any different
Thanks for sharing and no commercials at this point in time anyway
Along with Jerimiah Johnson and the Mountain Men. Sourdough just became another of my favorites
beautiful film, many thanks for sharing it
Thanks. I lived up there in 67 as a kid and I miss it all the time.
Great documentary on the way it was back in the wild wild woods , i loved this film
@Cee Dub619cameraman As i said, Only the story line was fictional. My Uncle and Cousin actually lived this life for 3 years while filming this movie. I think they may have based the story on an actual person, but it wasn't my uncle. He just was a natural Sourdough:)
Dogs thankfully don't relate to greed or deceit. They will be by your side as long as you are by theirs.
Amazing film .Thank you very much my friend..
So many father son posta on here and i love it . Share with your kids folks .this movie litterally became my whole inspiration in life . And i didnt realize it and found the movie after searching for 30 years . My dad would have loved to see it again and see the nature here in bc.
This is the first time I saw this movie. It was great. This isn't the last time either
I enjoyed this movie is very much what a sweet man what a wonderful life he had God bless you thank you for showing this movie
never got bored of this movie
Best film I've ever watched. Appreciate it so much thanks
Narrated by Gene Evans. I always liked him as an actor. Definitely the right voice for part.
I just love this film,,thanx again fir posting
I've been trying to find this for years, as I lost my VHS of it, thank you!
There is only one flaw in this movie. In Alaska we call them "snow machines" not snow mobiles but that is just a lesson for those on "the outside" (lower 48). I've watched this every year since I was a boy in the long winter. Loved it so much I moved up here12 years ago. Literally left everything behind except my dogs! Don't exactly live out in the bush like he does, but it's still heaven. The hardest part of watching this was seeing the dogs struggle on the river. As a dog guy, it killed me to see that happen. Always so happy to see that they both lived. Don't know what I would do if I lost mine. Sadly, I have nothing else just like the Mountain Man friend here. Man has ruined many beauties in the world and slowly I too see Alaska fade into the "outside" way of life. People in their cute little North Face Jackets and commercial walking poles seem to ruin the rugged nature here. Most have been horrible when the madness began starting in the 50s as some of this beautiful state slipped into the modern way of life. I'll die here smiling in this, the most beautiful State the US has to offer.
Down here, a snow machine is a machine that makes snow.
Alaska ain't a state for stupid folks. Don't you feel bad; Jack London warned 'em.
My acquaintances in Saskatchewan call them "Sno-biles' pronounced like "Mobile" (Alabama)
"Gone Snobilin"
@@kennethquesenberry2610when I lived there everyone called them snowmachines
Fantastic movie! Thanks for sharing, and God bless you.
Awesome movie! Thanks for sharing!
I liked the movie. Depressing at times yet peaceful, serene, and would love to live that way at times. I know I'd miss the modern things too.Tough choices.
True that.
This was awesome. The river scene was great
Looove this movie. Thanks for the upload.
Loved this. Thank You. 👍🙏❤️🇨🇦
very stupidly i clicked on this thinking it was an old recipe for making sourdough ( healthy bread ) but like all my mistakes in life they always lead me to a higher education on improving the way i see life and want to live. i live in the UK and pretty much stay away from people and society , i built a couple of cabins in the back garden and thats where i stay ! constantly creating life in plant form , harvesting seeds and taking a huge variety of them to the country side to spread , apple trees, pear, plum, beans ,peas and plenty of wild flowers ,
i figure the world is so messed up it needs fixing, costs me nothing but an early morning walk and a few holes dug .
Hopefully you don't still view your clicking on the link a mistake but know that it was ignorance that led you here, not stupidity.
@Brian Clarke, that's the spirit, right there!
Waw I'm watching like this 🤩🤩🤩 this is gold 🥇 thank you so much for uploading 🙏❤️⚔️
Let me choose my own friends and invite my own company !! Saw this in highschool , 1978.Like this more now, Liven in Nebraska , 2020!!!
Imagine waking up living off grid with no bills to pay.😱😱 the sheer peace and quiet, my 3 dogs, the views of nature. I would sleep better at nights I would choose this lifestyle. Furthermore This video has convinced me to avoid city living.
This is an incredible film..thank you
This old guy is in better physical condition than 99 percent of the 18 year olds out there today.
Good old movie i didn't know before. Thank you.
This movie will remain a treasure in my book.
I saw it as a 15 yr old boy living in Anchorage, Alaska during the Fur Rendezvous in 1977.
Sure no special effects like that summers Star Wars, or superstar celebrity actors but it resonates so well.
My experience with movies is people get out of a movie what they're looking for. (Total bombs excluded) If you're expecting light saber battles this isn't the movie.
If you're looking for someone carving out an existence on their terms, here you go.
Thanks old timer I enjoyed that ..
really cool video, life looks soo peaceful up there.
Really enjoyed watching this. Thank you for sharing
I look up and see 1977 was the print of this and it kinda reflects my feelings too. I been here for most of the forty plus years here in alaska starting in the south east and working my way north without ever knowing it. I am not impressed with the way life as a whole has came around. No legal government anymore... just business men taking as much as they can horde for themselves. I'm 73 and don't know if tomorrow will come without me or not as health is really failing fast. Legs are gone and most of me hurts forever. I loved the movie cause it wasn't sugar coated.
Best Documentary I have ever watched
🐾👣 saw this when it first came out in 77 spent my first winter in abandon cabin in outer willow in 73 nice to know where some of us old timers did fit in life's past alaskan times 🌲
Almost 50 years later and things are worse.