I regained full consciousness. My
eyes rolled forward so that I could
see again. I was paralyzed, except
for my head, and I started babbling,
looking around at the boys and
asking, “Wh-wh-what happened?!”
They told me we had been hit by
lightning. At first I refused to believe
them until they aimed their flashlights
at the roof of our tent and showed
me the smoking hole in the nylon
above where I had been sitting.
We had a long night up on the
mountain and an even longer day
the next day, figuring out how to
get ourselves off the mountain and
back home safely with Pluto, the
Wonderdog. You’ll have to buy the
DVD or stream the movie to learn the
whole story.
Suffice it to say that our movie’s title,
The Stray, refers not only to the dog
who came into our family and saved
our lives in more ways than one; it also
refers to a young father dying on a
mountainside in Colorado, knowing
that his only hope for salvation was
the tender mercy of an all-powerful,
all-knowing God. I will forever be
grateful that He came and found me.
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Mitch Davis has written and pro-
duced such movies as Rocketeer,
Newsies, White Fang and Dead
Poets Society (Disney), Windrunner
(Disney Channel and Warner Home
Video), The Other Side of Heaven,
starring Academy Award winner
Anne Hathaway (Walt Disney Home
Entertainment), Language of the
Enemy, starring Academy Award
winner F. Murray Abraham (theatre
release), and Christmas Eve, starring
Patrick Stewart (theatre release).
In 2016 he wrote, directed, and
produced a feature film starring
Michael Cassidy and Sarah
Lancaster called The Stray, which
was released nationwide in U.S.
theaters on October 6th, 2017. It is
soon to be released on Video On
Demand, television, and DVD, both
domestically and internationally.