Bless the Beasts & Children
It is an anti-gun film before its time. Growing up is finding out that the good guys don’t always win.
In 1971 Bless the Beasts & Children exploited a unique and overwhelming sad focus on how geeks, misfits and nerds were treated. Boys go to Box Canyon Summer Camp to relax, play games and bond. Not for a group of boys that get bullied.
Bill Mumy – Lawrence Teft III
Barry Robins – John Cotton
Miles Chapin – Sammy Shecker
Hazing is a wake-up call for these boys. This film is about how badly some of us raise our children. Teaching them the wrong way to treat innocence or uniqueness. I recommend anyone with a youngster about 12 or 13 to view this film with them.
I loved this film when I first viewed it because I was coming of age and waking up to the real world too. The motif of this film fits nicely into the seventies groove, hey it was the beginning of the hardcore seventies.
The love these boys focus on together is upon the wild Buffalo. They find out that these proud and innocent beasts, almost reaching extinction, are being gunned down by sport hunters as if in a penny arcade.
They start on a journey as youngsters and transform into young men by standing up for something besides their small personal problems.; against all odds they are going to try and save the Buffalo. Growing up is finding out that the good guys do not always win.
Bless The Beasts & Children is filled with humor, intense emotions, sadness, and love. The soundtrack is peaking a seventies musical score with the hit song Bless the Beasts & Children by The Carpenters.
Yes I had a big crush on Bill Mumy…
