Home from the hills starring Robert Mitchum, George Hamilton and George Peppard was a film which featured a scene with Catahoulas hunting wild hogs and a show down with a wild boar.
Scenes of a wild hog hunt were shot in Texas, although the boar in the film was not the original caught in Talco, according to production notes the boar died on a train to California where the final hunt sequences were to be filmed.
Robert Mitchum in “Home from the hill”
Bogata news red river county Texas
Friday June 26 1959
TALCO MAN LEASES 400lb WILD BOAR FOR FILM STORY
Tom boy Frank’s who lives 6 miles east of Talco reported Monday that he had leased the 400 pound wild boar with 5 inch tusks which he captured with the aid of his trained leopard dogs last Friday in white oak River bottom near Talco, to metro Goldwyn Mayer to be used in the wild boar fight in the movie “home from the hills,”
now being filmed in the Sulphur River bottom south of Cuthand. They have leased the board for 23 days beginning June 18 and running through July 10.
Tom Boy is the son of the late Guv Franks of Talco route 1 and he remembers hearing his father tell of the times when many wild boar roamed both Sulphur and White Oak bottoms in this vicinity.
The company also wanted to lease one of Mr. Franks dogs that helped capture the boar a large well trained Catahoula cur to use in the fight he took the dog to location last Thursday for a test where a TV camera man took pictures of the days activities which included one of Mr. Franks and they were on Friday night program people places and things channel for KRLD he was offered a large sum for the use of the dog but refused because of the fear of it being killed and he stated that no amount of money could pay for the life of this dog.
15 year old Tommy Frank’s is carrying on the work at their ranch while his father is managing the wild boar for metro Goldwyn Mayer.
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