The Night of the Grizzly

4/5/2025

**_Bucolic Western with Clint Walker tangling with a satanic bruin_** A man & his loved ones (Clint Walker, Martha Hyer, Don Haggerty, etc.) take over an inherited ranch in Wyoming, but are beset by a rogue grizzly, a mogul who wants the land (Keenan Wynn), his troublemaking sons (Ron Ely and Sammy Jackson) and a mysterious man from the past (Leo Gordon). “The Night of the Grizzly” (1966) was reworked from an unused script of Walker’s successful Western series Cheyenne with some fans of that show viewing it as the unofficial epilogue since Clint’s character often spoke of getting a ranch. The tone is reminiscent of “Shane,” which also featured Ellen Corby and Nancy Kulp, but this is less cinematic, no doubt due to the lesser budget and the fact that it was helmed by Joseph Pev

4/17/2026

The aptly named “Big Jim” (Clint Walker) has had enough of marshalling and so takes his family and heads off to Wyoming where he has been left some land. No sooner have they arrived than he discovers that his neighbours ain't so neighbourly. The “Curry” family, who carry quite a bit of weight in the town have their own eyes on his patch, and “Jed” (Keenan Wynn) is making few bones about his desires. Just to add to his woes, there's also an hungry bear on the warpath and it is making short work of the stock. Using the bear as an excuse, “Curry” hires in the bounty hunting “Cass” (Leo Gordon) who has a past with both “Jim” and his wife “Angela” (Martha Hyer) and whom he hopes will rid him of the unwanted gent. Walker does what he always does: punch his way through his action scenes with perf