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Maurice Sendak's Little Bear is a Canadian children's television series starring a Little Bear voiced by Kristin Fairlie. Originally produced by Nelvana for Nickelodeon, it currently airs on Treehouse TV in Canada and Nick Jr. in the United States. A direct-to-video full-length feature film was also created after the series ended. In The Little Bear Movie, Little Bear and his friends help a bear named Cub to help find his parents.
It is based on the Little Bear series of books which were written by Else Holmelund Minarik, and illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Most of the characters are moderately anthropomorphic animals, exhibiting both animal and human behaviors, but generally dealing with human problems and concerns. However, Little Bear's friend, Emily, and her grandmother are human and Tutu, their dog, is mostly a normal pet. Other characters in the series include Little Bear and his parents Mother and Father Bear, his paternal uncle Rusty, his two grandparents, the eponymously named animals Duck, Cat, Owl and Hen, in addition to many recurring characters.
Actors: Bruce Mercury (actor), Michael Biehn (actor), Daniel Veluzat (producer), Nick Vallelonga (director), James Russo (actor), Peter Sherayko (actor), Jennifer Blanc (actress), Nick Vallelonga (producer), Randy Miller (composer), Ann M. Doria (miscellaneous crew), Zahn McClarnon (actor), James Logan (actor), Jay Miracle (producer), T.A. Williams (producer), Jon Vasquez (editor),
Genres: Western,Actors: Roger Guenveur Smith (actor), Matthew Feeney (actor), Anna Maria Horsford (actress), Rachel Grubb (actress), Jim Brockhohn (actor), Monica Calhoun (actress), Isabell O'Connor (actress), Lynn Johnson (miscellaneous crew), Allen Hamilton (actor), Donny West (actor), Catherine Campion (miscellaneous crew), Timothy Meinke (actor), James Cada (actor), Anne Healy (miscellaneous crew), Joe Minjares (actor),
Plot: Under pressure to accept a plea bargain resisted by a street-wise client, public defender Carter stands by his client, angering the judge, then his boss. At home, Carter's wife Sharice, a socialite who grew up in the suburbs, chafes at the financial and personal strain of raising two young children in the inner city. Sharice pushes Carter to use her uncle's connections to get a job in a fancy downtown law firm. Carter agrees to leave the defender's office for a new job, though not to join a fancy law firm. Instead, following his conscience, he opens a law office in the inner city to fight against a criminal justice system that prizes efficiency over real justice. When Carter and his team of lawyers and activists launch a controversial direct action campaign targeting the court system, Sharice must decide whether to stay with her husband or take their two young children to the suburbs. Carter struggles to keep his family together, expand the direct action campaign, and survive a crackdown by corrupt government officials.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Wayne Fitzgerald (miscellaneous crew), Luca Kouimelis (miscellaneous crew), Judith M. Brown (miscellaneous crew), Frank Marshall (producer), Randy Edelman (composer), JoAnn Fregalette Jansen (miscellaneous crew), Michael Papajohn (actor), Frank Oz (director), David Keith (actor), Kathleen Kennedy (producer), Steve Coogan (actor), Lindsay Crouse (actress), Richard Jenkins (actor), Michael Maxwell (miscellaneous crew), Jack E. Herman (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: On his ninth birthday a boy receives many presents. Two of them first seem to be less important: an old cupboard from his brother and a little Indian figure made of plastic from his best friend. But these two presents turn out to be much more magic than the rest...
Keywords: accidental-shooting, adopted-nephew, alternate-reality, american-indian, animate-toy, armor, based-on-novel, bedroom, best-friend, birthdayActors: Don Francks (actor), Ruth Secord (costume designer), Colin Fox (actor), Norbert Walter (producer), Jochen Senf (actor), Randy Kumano (miscellaneous crew), Christos Yiannopoulos (writer), James E. Motluk (writer), John White (actor), John White (actor), John Wildman (actor), Denis Lacroix (actor), Denis Lacroix (actor), Peter Schiller (producer), Manfred Schoof (composer),
Plot: During the Franco-English war in Northern America, an English boy is captured by the French and sold to Indians where he grows up in a new family. When he is forced to return to his former home by English soldiers some years later, he finds he is a stranger there.
Keywords: based-on-novel, tv-mini-seriesActors: James W. Gavin (miscellaneous crew), Elmer Bernstein (composer), William Wellman Jr. (actor), Tom Rolf (editor), Riley Hill (actor), Moss Mabry (costume designer), Michael Economou (editor), Tom Laughlin (director), Tom Laughlin (actor), Tom Laughlin (writer), Tom Laughlin (producer), Victor Izay (actor), Hazel W. Hall (miscellaneous crew), George Aguilar (actor), Al Ebner (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: After Billy Jack in sentenced to four years in prison for the "involuntary manslaughter" of the first film, the Freedom School expands and flourishes under the guidance of Jean Roberts. The utopian existence of the school is characterized by everything ranging from "yoga sports" to muckracking journalism. The diverse student population airs scathing political exposes on their privately owned television station. The narrow-minded townspeople have different ideas about their brand of liberalism. Billy Jack is released and things heat up for the school. Students are threatened and abused and the Native Americans in the neighboring village are taunted and mistreated. After Billy Jack undergoes a vision quest, the governor and the police plot to permanently put an end to their liberal shenanigans, leaving it up to Billy Jack to save the day.
Keywords: action-hero, american-indian, anti-violence, arizona, arm-ripped-off, artificial-arm, barricade, bat, battlefield, beatingActors: Massimo De Rita (writer), John Sturges (producer), José Nieto (actor), Jill Ireland (actress), Duilio Coletti (producer), Dino De Laurentiis (producer), Charles Bronson (actor), Luis Prendes (actor), Luis Rico (actor), Bruno Boschetti (actor), Marcel Bozzuffi (actor), Fausto Tozzi (actor), Ettore Manni (actor), Diana Lorys (actress), Arduino Maiuri (writer),
Plot: Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly because, being a 'half-breed', he finds himself unwelcome almost everywhere he goes. One day, a young runaway named Jimmy shows up at his door looking for work and a roof over his head. Reluctantly, Chino agrees to take him in and teach him the art of raising, breaking and breeding horses, until the pair finally begin to accept each other.
Keywords: action-hero, ambush, bar-brawl, bar-fight, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, based-on-novel, beating, brawl, brideActors: Stanley Adams (actor), Willis Bouchey (actor), Lon Chaney Jr. (actor), Douglas Fowley (actor), Leo Gordon (actor), Robert Lowery (actor), Charles Meredith (actor), George Murdock (actor), Jay Silverheels (actor), Fred Willard (actor), Lee Patrick (actress), Ann Sheridan (actress), Jack Elliott (composer), Gil Lamb (actor), Morgan Woodward (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Western,Actors: Ted Adams (actor), Roy Butler (actor), Ken Curtis (actor), Shug Fisher (actor), Forrest Taylor (actor), Harry L. Fraser (director), Ray Snyder (editor), Carolina Cotton (actress), Jack Lewis (miscellaneous crew), Alice Richey (actress), Bill Hammond (actor), Robert L. Fenton (producer), Bob Brandon (actor), D.C. Swapp (actor), L.H. Larsen (actor),
Plot: Just as Curt Benson and his men finish rounding up a herd of wild horses for the Curley Q ranch, owned by Aunt Milly, a wild stallion runs toward the corral and stampedes the herd before he can be stopped. Curt suspects the stallion was let loose on purpose by someone who is anxious to keep Aunt Milly from recouping recent losses. He and Little Bear set out to get the evidence to prove that. Curt suspects rancher Tom Lawson and Little Bear goes to investigate the Lawson ranch. Lawson kills one his henchmen for knowing too much and the blame is laid on Little Bear. Curt now has the task of clearing his friend and saving the ranch from foreclosure.
Keywords: horseActors: Marie Walcamp (actress), Charles Brinley (actor), Noble Johnson (actor), L.M. Wells (actor), Jacques Jaccard (director), Jacques Jaccard (writer), Lawrence Peyton (actor), Yvette Mitchell (actress), Bobby Mack (actor), Nellie Allen (actress), Harry Archer (actor), Miriam Shelby (actress),
Genres: Action, Adventure,Actors: Arthur V. Johnson (actor), James Kirkwood (actor), Owen Moore (actor), Alfred Paget (actor), Frank Powell (actor), Mack Sennett (actor), Henry B. Walthall (actor), James Young Deer (actor), Florence Lawrence (actress), Red Wing (actress), Stanner E.V. Taylor (writer), D.W. Griffith (director),
Genres: Short, Western,Fall apart with grace, flies without the merest trace
A sweet ascension across a new dimension
Fall apart with pride, eternity shall be your bride
Go to find her, the star in Ursa Minor
An ashen cloud of dust, the world will darkly hang
about you
But as your eyes adjust, you see the things you’re not
supposed to
And though you’ve shifted plains it’s here that is your
home
Tonight the universe has claimed you for her own
Fall apart with grace, flies without the merest trace
A sweet ascension across a new dimension
Fall apart with pride, eternity shall be your bride
Go to find her, the star in Ursa Minor
Reason has left this place, it hides behind its
compromises
And if he is embraced, it takes to the streets and
advertises
But all we learnt from you remains within our bones
Oracle of this bear, wherever you have flown
Fall apart with grace, flies without the merest trace
A sweet ascension across a new dimension
Fall apart with pride, fall apart with pride
Fall apart with grace, flies without the merest trace
A sweet ascension across a new dimension
Fall apart with pride, eternity shall be your bride