Kelly assigns fellow ranger Tom at a fire lookout tower on the mountain. Scott concludes that the grizzly is a male, as only male bears are cannibalistic. However, the grizzly finds and eats the cub without the hunters even noticing. Believing it is the cub of the killer grizzly, they use it as bait for the mother. Later that night, three hunters find a bear cub. Later, a lone hunter is chased by the grizzly, but manages to escape by jumping into a river and floating to safety. Kelly, Stober and Scott are disgusted by this development. The attacks are becoming a national news story and, to counteract this, Kittridge allows amateur hunters into the forest. Kelly once again insists on closing the park, but Kittridge still refuses. Kelly and Stober scoff at the notion.Īt the busy lowland campground, the grizzly kills another woman. Telling them all of the bears are accounted for and this specific bear is unknown to the forest, Scott informs them that the animal they are looking for is a prehistoric species of grizzly bear (a fictional Pleistocene Epoch Arctodus ursus horribilis) that stands around 15 ft (4.6 m) tall, weighs 2,000 to 3,000 lb (0.91 to 1.36 t) - much bigger and heavier than a regular one - and is hypercarnivorous.
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Flying above the forest, they see Scott adorned in animal skin while tracking the bear. Kelly recruits the helicopter pilot, Stober, to assist in the search. Unaware that the bear is lurking nearby, she is killed while showering in the falls. Kelly calls Scott and informs him of the bear attack.ĭuring a search of the mountain, a female ranger stops for a break at a waterfall.
Kelly and Kittridge argue over closing the park before deciding to move all hikers off the park's mountain, while allowing campers to remain in the lowlands. The park supervisor, Charley Kittridge, blames Kelly for the attacks, as the bears were supposed to have been moved from the park by Kelly and naturalist Arthur Scott before the tourist season began. There, they discover the mangled corpses, one of which has been partially buried.Īt the hospital, a doctor tells Kelly that a large bear killed the girls. The national park's Chief Ranger, Michael Kelly, and photographer Allison Corwin decide to follow a ranger to the primitive campsite to check on the hikers. He states that the woods are untouched and remain much as they did during the time when Native Americans lived there.Īfter breaking camp, two female hikers are attacked and killed by an unseen animal. Military veteran helicopter pilot and guide Don Stober flies individuals above a national park. The giant grizzly bear in the film was portrayed by a Kodiak bear named Teddy, who was 11 ft (3.4 m) tall. Widely considered a Jaws rip-off, Grizzly used many of the same plot devices as its shark predecessor, which had been a huge box office success during the previous year. It stars Christopher George, Andrew Prine and Richard Jaeckel. However, a drunken hunting party complicates matters. television) is a 1976 American horror thriller film directed by William Girdler, about a park ranger's attempts to halt the wild rampage of an 18 ft (5.5 m) tall, 2,000 lb (910 kg) Man-eating grizzly bear that terrorizes a National Forest, having developed a taste for human flesh. Grizzly (also known as Killer Grizzly on U.S.
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