Sultan and the Rock Star (1980)
Paul Winters, a rock star burnout, flees his fame and ends up by chance on an island where he comes face to face with Sultan, a domesticated Bengal tiger left there to be hunted by a wealthy businessman. He then befriends the animal and decides to do everything to save him...
- Date of release
- 1980-04-20
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 56m
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Family, TV Movie
- Director
- Edward M. Abroms
Casting
- Timothy Hutton — Paul Winters
- Ken Swofford — George Mackenzie
- Bruce Glover — Alec Frost
- Ned Romero — Joe Ironwood
- Richard Paul — Mathews
- Pat Delaney — Mrs. Winters
- Shug Fisher — Motel Owner
- Brendan Dillon — Hicks
- Elven Havard — First Officer
- Wayne Winton — Jake
- John Lawrence — The Fisherman
Interesting facts
Sultan and the Rock Star is a 1980 American made-for-television adventure drama film starring Timothy Hutton and based on the novel Sandy and the Rock Star by Walt Morey, with the major difference being the titular cat is a mountain lion and not a tiger. It was originally broadcast on NBC as an episode of Disney's Wonderful World on April 20, 1980.
Filming
Sultan and the Rock Star was filmed on location in July 1979 at Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo County, California.
During pre-production, Timothy Hutton spent two weeks at Disney's Golden Oak Ranch in Canyon County, California learning how to act around Sultan; he admitted that he was scared out of his wits for the first few days of training because it wasn't easy to be natural, loose and funny while acting with a tiger.
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