The Biscuit Eater (1972)

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In this touching adventure, a remake of the popular 1940 film, two Georgia boys ignore their racial differences to team up and befriend a feral bird dog, whom they train to participate in a fence-jumping contest. The Biscuit Eater, the 1972 Vincent McEveety Walt Disney family canine dog comedy (“TWO SMALL PARTNERS… They risked everything for a lovable, no ‘count hound!”; “Based on a story by James Street”) starring Earl Holliman, Patricia Crowley, Lew Ayres, Godfrey Cambridge, Beah Richards, Johnny Whitaker, George Spell, Clifton James, and Mantan Moreland (one of the first black African-American actors to achieve stardom in mainstream movies)