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Movie plot doesn't stick. After their partner is murdered, two hotdog cops wanna avenge his death and catch the killer by purchasing counterfeit money he produces.

They need to pay upfront though so get a tip from informant about another holler and get money from him and are pursued by car chase all over the city.

They leave fingerprints on the silver suitcase under the viaduct where they make a hit on the money. Yet enforcement forces are unable to get the suitcase and match fingerprints for the database?

Same with ditched car with smashed windows used in car chase. Full of fingerprints in it. No enforcement agency retrieves it and examines to establish who drove it?

And the cherry on the icing. When two hotdog cops are back in LA, nobody questions them where they were when fatal heist happened? How two cops' time is unaccounted for and not examined by their superiors?

Unbelievable and absolutely flawed movie.

This ain't no way to treat Tom and classifies as animal cruelty. Person who made that episode should have been banned from TV networks for lifetime.

Level of aggression in this episode is unbearable and doesn't compare at all to early HB episodes where black lady was the villain.

For me it appears that Gene Deitch had some kind of a grudge against cats and wanted to visualise his trauma on the screen. Maybe childhood trauma, I don't know, a psychologist should examine it. Otherwise I find no reason to picture Tom like this, no child watching this episode will learn good things from it, it only perpetuates vigilantism on cats.

Bob Swerer Productions appear to be the only licensed distributor of this movie, among a couple of others like 'Alaska: Silence and Solitude' and 'The Frozen North'. Indeed, the footage is nothing but amazing. I don't understand though why it's being distributed on DVD only with SD quality? Dick made all his footage using 16mm Bolex camera that records in High-Definition, and this is supported by plenty of photos in HD available online of which he was the author. Whill we ever get HD version of this movie and other ones?

Not to the point of 'alone in the wilderness' as the documentary claims, and bigger picture must be explained to the viewers.

Dick wasn't entirely alone in this living at Twin Lakes. He had supplies frequently flown in by his friend Babe Alsworth. Gasoline, food, cans etc.

Secondly, Dick had a gun and a rifle that he brought on this long trips into the wilderness, so he wasn't entirely defenseless. His exploration was with all kind of modern conveniences. Same goes with his log cabin build, he used only hand tools to cut logs and his craftsmanship skills but to cover the roof, tarpaper and polyethylene were used, both of which are not natural materials. The fireplace he build was built with cement delivered by plane.

Third thing and maybe most important one. Dick was only able to build cabin log there because he knew many people at that time. Even so, the cabin was built without obtaining valid planning permission due to sketchy siatuation at that time between americans and local native people who claimed ownership of all that land. If Dick was a stranger or person outside the area, nobody would allow him to settle at Twin Lakes.

This is not to say this movie is not enjoyable to watch. It very much is. It's just a notion to say what one would not spend as many years (30) as Dick did in the Alaska without modern conveniences he took advantage of.

I'm only disappointed Dick didn't build more useful conveniences near his cabin like sauna bath etc. At the end of his life, cold winters must have taken a tool to Dick's health, not being able to chop woods regularly, source water, meat etc. That he decided to leave his cabin and move to his brother's house in California.