an Atlantis Films production in association with the Clorox Company, Rabbit Ears Productions, Inc., Marian Rees Associates and CTV Television Network ; producer, Martin Katz ; teleplay by Gerald Dipego ; directed by Sheldon Larry ; executive producers, Peter Sussman, Jack McQueen. Director of photography, Ron Stannett ; edited by Ronald Sanders ; music by Peter Manning Robinson ; production designer, Rolf Harvey ; art director, Rolf Harvey ; costume designer, Eydi Caines-Floyd. : From the book The sign of the beaver by Elizabeth George Speare./ Originally produced as the television motion picture "Keeping the promise" in 1997./ Special features: About the author; "Frontier Maine" featurette./ Participants: Keith Carradine, Gordon Tootosis, Brendan Fletcher, Maury Chaykin, David Cubitt, William Lightning, Annette O'Toole./ Audience: Not rated by the MPAA.
Summary:
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a thirteen-year-old boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
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