Cheetah is a 1989 live-action film from Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures is an American film studio owned by The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney Pictures and Television, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Studios and the main production company for live-action feature films within the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, based at the Walt Disney...

 starring Keith Coogan

Keith Coogan

Keith Coogan is an American actor. He is a grandson of actor Jackie Coogan.-Biography:Coogan was born Keith Eric Mitchell in Palm Springs, California, the son of Leslie Diane Coogan Mitchell, an actress...

 and Lucy Deakins

Lucy Deakins

Lucy Deakins was known for being an American child actress.Deakins was born in New York City, the daughter of Alice, a professor at William Paterson University, and Roger, a retired New York University professor. She graduated from Stuyvesant High School and enrolled in Harvard University in 1988....

. This motion picture was based on Alan Caillou

Alan Caillou

Alan Caillou was the nom de plume of Alan Samuel Lyle-Smythe M.B.E., M.C. , an author, actor, screenwriter, soldier, policeman and professional hunter.-Biography:...

's novel The Cheetahs. It was shot in Nairobi

Nairobi

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, Kenya

Kenya

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.

Plot summary

An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents, adopt a female cheetah

Cheetah

The cheetah is a large-sized feline inhabiting most of Africa and parts of the Middle East. The cheetah is the only extant member of the genus Acinonyx, most notable for modifications in the species' paws...

 they call Duma, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free. However, when the animal is captured by poachers planning to race it against greyhounds, the two city kids, together with a young African goat herder they befriended, head off into the wild to rescue the cheetah.

Cast

• Keith Coogan
  Keith Coogan
  Keith Coogan is an American actor. He is a grandson of actor Jackie Coogan.-Biography:Coogan was born Keith Eric Mitchell in Palm Springs, California, the son of Leslie Diane Coogan Mitchell, an actress...
  
   as Ted
• Lucy Deakins
  Lucy Deakins
  Lucy Deakins was known for being an American child actress.Deakins was born in New York City, the daughter of Alice, a professor at William Paterson University, and Roger, a retired New York University professor. She graduated from Stuyvesant High School and enrolled in Harvard University in 1988....
  
   as Susan
• Timothy Landfield as Earl Johnson
• Colin Mothupi as Morogo
• Breon Gorman as Jean Johnson
• Mhlangabezi Ka Vundla as Kipoin
• Lydia Kigada as Lani
• Kuldeep Bhakoo as Patel
• Paul Onsongo as Abdallah
• Anthony Baird as Nigel
• Rory McGuinness as Larry
• Rod Jacobsen as David
• David Adido as Mwangi
• Richard Clarke as Announcer (voice)
• Michael Rogers as Voice of Racetrack Policeman

See also

• African Cats
  African Cats
  African Cats is a nature documentary film directed by Keith Scholey and Alastair Fothergill about several lions and cheetahs trying to survive on the African savannah. The film is the fourth release by Disneynature, and was released in theaters on Earth Day, April 22, 2011. The film is narrated by...
  
  
• Duma
  Duma (film)
  Duma is a 2005 drama adventure film, directed by Carroll Ballard. It stars Alexander Michaletos, Eamonn Walker, Hope Davis and Campbell Scott...
  
  
• The Lion King
  The Lion King
  The Lion King is a 1994 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 32nd feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series...
  
  
• A Far Off Place
  A Far Off Place
  A Far Off Place is a Walt Disney Pictures and Amblin Entertainment film from 1993, starring Reese Witherspoon, Ethan Randall, Jack Thompson and Maximilian Schell. The filming locations were in Namibia and Zimbabwe...
  
  
• In Desert and Wilderness
  In Desert and Wilderness (film)
  Adapted from a popular young adult novel, In Desert and Wilderness by Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz written in 1912, Desert and Wilderness is the story of two kids, Staś Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison, kidnapped by the rebels during Mahdi's rebellion in Sudan...