American Wilderness is a 1970 American wilderness documentary film directed by Arthur Dubs. Dubs owned an Oregon construction company and was a big game hunter in his spare time. He made the film while on a working holiday in Alaska in 1966.
4-549: Made for $ 52,000, Dubs distributed the film himself. It was very successful and launched his filmmaking career which included Pacific International Enterprises . The movie featured a number of hunting sequences - Dubs' later films were more family friendly. The film was a surprise success at the box office and made $ 5.7 million in rentals in the US and Canada. The San Francisco Examiner called it "a chilling record of systematic slaughter". This article related to an American film of
8-412: The 1970s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This 1970s documentary film-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pacific International Enterprises Pacific International Enterprises (PIE) was an American film production company and film distributor , founded by Arthur R. Dubs as a producer of family films. Pacific International Enterprises
12-620: The state of Utah in Windwalker and the state of Colorado for the three films of the Wilderness Family for example. The company went defunct on November 30, 2001, after filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The founder, Arthur R. Dubs, died in June 2013. Lionsgate picked up distribution rights for DVD, Blu-ray and the digital format for the titles. This article about an American film distributor or production company
16-574: Was a privately held company that had been in business for over thirty years as "A Universal Force in Family Film Entertainment" . Their films have been continually licensed and re-licensed for television by various channels such as HBO , Disney , TNT , CBS and in over 100 countries worldwide. Many of the company's movies were filmed on location with outdoor scenery shots such as the state of Oregon in Sacred Ground ,
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