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Theo is the only sibling featured in the film version. In the award-winning book of the same name, all three of Sterling North's real-life siblings are featured in the story: his brother Herschel and his sisters Theodora (Theo) and the future poet and editor Jessica Nelson North.

Walter Pidgeon as adult Sterling North (voice).

Sterling leaves, knowing that the two will be able to protect each other. As he comes to help, Rascal and his new mate outwit the lynx, sending him tumbling into the water. But before Sterling leaves, the lynx returns.

The next day, Sterling sets out in his homemade canoe and returns Rascal to his old stomping grounds, where he quickly locates a female racoon. Following a scuffle where Rascal bites his finger, Sterling realizes it is time to let Rascal go. Later that night, Rascal hears the mating call of a female raccoon through the window and tries to escape through Theo’s room, waking her and everyone else. Willard vows to become a better father to Sterling. Enraged, Theo confronts Willard, reminding him that Sterling is his son who needs help. Theo returns from Chicago, finding the home in a mess.

Rascal's presence inspires the sulky's horse, Donnybrook, to win the race, changing the town's opinion of him. On his way home, Sterling takes Rascal to a race between a Stanley Steamer and a sulky. A local constable threatens to hold Sterling responsible for damages unless he keeps Rascal caged up. Slatterfield, but dismisses her afterwards, deciding that Sterling can take care of himself.ĭuring the summer Rascal starts causing trouble, including trashing up a local store and digging up a neighbor's corn patch. Willard agrees to meet with Theo's favorite, Mrs. As Willard has to leave for work, his daughter, Theo, lines up interviews for a potential live-in housekeeper before returning to her job in Chicago. Sterling brings the raccoon home and names him Rascal.

In the summer of 1918 in the little town of Brailsford Junction in central Wisconsin, Willard North takes his son, Sterling out into the woods, where a lynx surprises a family of raccoons, who run away, leaving a young raccoon behind. The film features the song "Summer Sweet" by Bobby Russell. Although set in 1918 Wisconsin, the movie was filmed in California. The movie is based on Sterling North's book of the same name which tells the story of young Sterling North and his "ringtailed wonder" pet raccoon, Rascal. Rascal is a 1969 American drama children's film made by Walt Disney Productions.