Celia Milius

Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs. (imdb)

A scientist proves that he can domesticate a lion, but nobody seems to believe him. (TCM.com)

Based on the true story of a native American girl who was accidentally left behind on California's San Nicolas Island, by Benedictine monks who were evacuating her tribe to the mainland. She wound up living alone and isolated for the next 18 years.

A 17-year-old girl runs away from her east coast home, going west to Los Angeles to meet her biological father. She has learned from letters her mother kept that he was tragically separated from her before the girl's birth. On the road, she is protected and befriended by an independent-minded young drifter who helps her on her journey.