Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar

The title character, now a little larger, with pal Jess (Ron Brown) encounters his enemy, the terrier Chainsaw, their chase introducing their participation in one of the last river log drives ever completed in the U.S.A., along the North Fork of the Clearwater River in Idaho, in Walt Disney’s Charlie, The Lonesome Cougar, 1967.

Following a goofy original title song about a teenage cougar, with animation, the proper opening of the Walt Disney live action feature, we meet Ron Brown as logger Jess, Disney stalwarts Winston Hibler directing and Rex Allen narrating, and the youngest performing cat, in Charlie, The Lonesome Cougar, 1967.

Having been adopted by a logger, abandoned cougar cub Charlie gets a big assist from narrator Rex Allen, writer Jack Speirs and director Winston Hibler, explaining his reasoning for an extended play sequence with a bear cub, in the Walt Disney live action feature Charlie, The Lonesome Cougar, 1967.