Bless the Beasts & Children

A group of social misfits band together and run away from summer camp. Along the way, they take up a…

• Director: Stanley Kramer
• Genre:Drama
• Runtime:102 minutes

Cast

Bill Mumy : Teft
Barry Robins : Cotton
Miles Chapin : Shecker
Darel Glaser : Goodenow
Bob Kramer : Lally 1

The story follows a group of six teenaged boys, who share a cabin at a residential summer camp in the western mountains. Each of the boys is a misfit in one way or another; the group is ostracized by the other boys at the camp, and form a bond based, in part, on this broader social isolation. After being taken on a field trip to see a captured herd of bison that is being slaughtered by local hunters, the boys resolve to sneak away from the camp and set the penned bison free.

The film is presented partially out of sequence; the primary narrative of freeing the bison is interspersed with flashback scenes showing the boys’ troubled lives both at the camp, and at their homes. Read more