Mr. Sycamore
Jason Robards is a man who decides he'd rather be a tree.
Pancho Kohner
Casts & Crew
Jason Robards
Sandy Dennis
Jean Simmons
Robert Easton
Mark Miller
Brenda Smith
Ian Wolfe
Richard Bull
David Osterhout
Lou Picetti
Jerome Thor
Curtis Taylor
Paul Berini
Eddie Lewis
Sydna Scott
Richard Redd
Ron D'Ippolito
Darby Hinton
Hall Brock
Tawna Nugent
Janine Johnson
Walter Scott
Lance Cremer
Evert Smith
Don Specter
Wayne Smith
Also Directed by Pancho Kohner
Gale (Charles Robinson) is an idealistic and naive young hunter who ignores warnings that no one can survive for long in the jungles of Mexico except the native Indians. He tries to hunt crocodiles but becomes delirious, disoriented and nears death. Sleigh (John Huston) is a veteran hunter living among the natives who rescues Gale just in time. As he recovers in the Indian village, Gale listens to Sleigh's denunciation of the evils of modern society (ie. money, greed and oil). Later on, a former native of the village returns from the oil fields of Texas and presents his young brother with a pair of cowboy boots. Proudly wearing his new boots, the boy falls off the wooden bridge into the river and drowns as the boots, symbolic shackles of civilization, fill up with water and pull him beneath the surface. Sleigh and Gale observe the Indians as they recover the body and stage an elaborate funeral for the dead boy