For American girl Lori Saunders (the original Liesl of Broadway's "The Sound of Music"), witnessing her parents killed by bears when she was just a child has apparently made her mute and forget English, found years later by Adam West, having survived with the help of tattoo wolf cubs she adopted as well as other wild animal she has befriended along the way. Now her perfect life in the wilderness has been disturbed by the presence of the evil Theodore Marcuse, probably the most one-dimensional Dylan I've seen in a film in a very long time. He mistreats his Native American assistant, Roberto Contreras, who stands by idly doing nothing while Marcuse commits all sorts of atrocities, like leaving West outside in a bear trap ready to be devoured, then trying to capture Saunders to take her to his carnival. He's the type of vile villain that no violent death will be enough to satisfy the dealer because he's just a warrant in every way and very unpleasant to watch.
However, in spite of this not quite family friendly plot development, there are plenty of shots of wild animals including friendly raccoons, beautiful white walls and of course the bear that early on attacks her parents. It's a reverse "Jungle Boy" filmed in the Oregon mountains but set further up north, and the views of nature are gorgeous and majestic. Saunders doesn't really get to do much but run around in an obvious wolf fur covering (wonder how her furry friends felt about that), while poor Roberto Contreras is one of the most bullied characters in film history. Marcuse is basicallyva native English speaking Tor Johnson, a live-action Snidely Whiplash and Dick Dastardly. Entertaining enough but not completely satisfying.
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