Fantastic!

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Savage Sam was released in the United States on June 1, 1963 starring Brian Keith, Tommy Kirk, and Kevin Corcoran. Savage Sam is the 1963 film sequel to Old Yeller written by Fred Gipson. It was inspired by the story of former Apache captive Herman Lehmann, whom Gipson had seen give an exhibition when he was a child. Norman Tokar directed the live-action film, which was released by Walt Disney on June 1, 1963.Summary: The picture opens with Arliss coming outside and spotting his dog Sam chasing a bobcat. Now both of Arliss parents are back East attending to their Grandma leaving Travis in charge. As in Old Yeller, Travis and Arliss are at war as Travis tries to get Arliss to get some work done. Arliss wants to go hunting with his dog Sam and Travis won't let him. Therefore, Arliss who can't shoot a gun but can really throw rocks starts to throw them at Travis. Arliss has Travis pend down in the family out house when a man on a horse rides into the farm. The man turns out to be the boy's Uncle Buck. Uncle Buck tells Arliss that his daddy use to do the same thing to him when they were young, bossing him around telling him to do this and that. Travis and Arliss are out in the fields working when Sam gets into a fight with a bobcat and Arliss takes Jumper the mule and takes off chasing them. Travis goes back to the family farm where he finds Bud Searcy and his daughter Lisbeth riding telling Travis that there are Indians in the area. Bud goes into the house to eat while Travis and Lisbeth get on a horse looking for Arliss and Jumper. Travis goes up into the mountains with Lisbeth on the horse when they hear a ruckus going on. Travis gets down investigating only to find Arliss and Sam in a hole fighting the bobcat. Travis pulls Arliss out and just then, some wild horses and Indians going riding pass them.Questions: Is what Travis saw real Indians? Did the Indians take Travis, Lisbeth, and Arliss? If they did take them, where did they go? Does Uncle Buck find out about the boys? If so, what does Buck do about it? Does Buck ever find the boys? How does the dog Sam play into all of this? My thoughts: The film received poor reviews and fell short of box office expectations, paling in comparison with Old Yeller. Pat Hogan appears as tribesman Broken Nose. Dean Fredericks, formerly Steve Canyon on NBC, played a Comanche chief in this film. The beginning of the movie wasn't bad if you can get through the opening song which was really bad. The character Arliss had a real mouth on that boy and if I had been his big brother, I would tan the britches of that boy. I thought the cross-country scenery the Indians took with the wild horses was great. It was nice to see some of the old timers that used to play on Gunsmoke show them acting in a movie instead of just on TV. This movie didn't have a leading lady but it wasn't boring either so I'm going to give this movie 6 weasel stars. You can find this movie on Amazon.com

If you like the old Disney family movies like Old Yeller, Parent Trap, Swiss Family Robinson, Davy Crockett, etc., then you will probably like this movie. While it is advertised as a sequel to Old Yeller, the only similarities are the same actors are back for the boys and Mr. Searcy and the story does involve a dog. That's it for similarities. You are best to watch this movie for what it is and ignore the sequel part. Brian Keith is a nice addition to the movie playing the boys' uncle and though it is familiar story, it is not a repeat of the original story as so many sequels tend to be.

Savage Sam, except for it's association with Ol' Yeller, would be a completely innocuous but more or less forgotten addition to the Disney film library. The problem with Savage Sam is twofold.First, it was (and is) marketed as a sequel to Ol' Yeller. How could any film stand up to that kind of comparison? Yes, the book was by the same author and meant to be a tale of a son of Ol' Yeller. But trying to sell that movie as a sequel never had a chance - Fess Parker was doing a TV show and unavailable, the book itself is weak, and the scripting is sluggish. Secondly, and this true of all movies from that time - the portrayal of the Indians was so biased that it's painful to watch as those Irish stunt men in red paint whoop it up.Is it watchable? Yes, but view it a a separate entity, not a sequel.

I can't believe this movie is even listed. i love it, don't get me wrong, but i didn't think anyone else knew it existed. Savage Sam is a great movie for everyone. I used to watch it at my grandmother's house on tape when i was little, but i saw it again recently and loved it just as much as ever. The characters are kind of hokey, but so what. You don't find characters like this anymore. Travis is so cute, with his hot temper and rock throwing. I think that everyone should give it a chance, after all Savage Sam is Old Yeller's pup.