Factual error: In one scene where Travis walks out the door of the kitchen half of the cabin, there is a thermometer nailed beside the door. In the late 1860's, when the movie takes place, thermometers like that were not available.
Old Yeller (1957)
1 factual error
Directed by: Robert Stevenson
Starring: Chuck Connors, Dorothy McGuire, Tommy Kirk, Fess Parker, Jeff York
Factual error: In one scene where Travis walks out the door of the kitchen half of the cabin, there is a thermometer nailed beside the door. In the late 1860's, when the movie takes place, thermometers like that were not available.
Jim Coates: Now and then, for no good reason a man can figure out, life will just haul off and knock him flat.
Trivia: Travis, Ollis, and their mother all starred together in Swiss Family Robinson also. (Travis as Ernst, Ollis as Francis, and the mother as the mother).