Top billed cast

1. 

   Rita Tushingham

   Eve

2. 

   Oliver Reed

   La Bete

3. 

   Rex Sevenoaks

   The Trader

4. 

   Barbara Chilcott

   Trader's Wife

5. 

   Blain Fairman

   Clerk

6. 

   Walter Marsh

   Preacher

7. 

   Merv Campone

   Yellow Dog

8. 

   Linda Goranson

   Trader's Daughter

9. 

   Joseph Golland

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-09-02

"La Bête" (Oliver Reed) is a fur trapper, eking out a living in the wilderness of British Columbia. He travels to the trading post once a year to trade his pelts and hopefully buy himself a wife. Eligible women are something of a rare thing this far North so when he is offered the chance to swap his gold for the young mute, Rita Tushingham, he doesn't think twice and off they head back to his log cabin. She is a fiercely independent girl, and no push over for this larger-than-life bully, but the two must learn to co-exist of they are not to freeze/starve to death. Returning from a hunting exp...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
• amputation
• slave auction
• mail order bride
• bear trap
• struggle for survival
• severed leg
• wolf pack
• trading post
• cold weather
• sold into slavery
• british columbia
• fur trader
• fur trapper
• 1890s
• canadian wilderness
• snow atmosphere
• attacked by wolves