The Bear

Jean-Jacques Annaud (director)
James Oliver Curwood (novel)
Gérard Brach (screenwriter)
Tchéky Karyo, Jack Wallace (starring)

Los Angeles: Columbia Pictures / Cinemax, 1990. Two vintage reference photographs from the US release of the 1988 French film, including one showing a camera crew on the set, capturing a scene with Bart, a trained Kodiak bear. One photo with a Cinemax label affixed to the verso.

Based on James Oliver Curwood's 1916 novella "The Grizzly King," about an orphaned bear cub who befriends an adult Kodiak bear in the wild. Shot on location in the Italian and Austrian regions of the Dolomites, using both live animals and animatronics created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

10 x 8 inches. About Fine.


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