Mundson rescues him with his ebony cane and its protruding stiletto dagger.[The revelation of the sexually-powerful cane-dagger is a perverse, compensating Freudian erect phallic substitute - "It is a most faithful, obedient friend.There were four different voice artists for Bambi at different stages of his life: (1) Baby Bambi (Bobby Stewart), (2) Young Bambi (7 year-old Donnie Dunagan), (3) Adolescent Bambi (Hardie Albright), and (4) Young Adult Bambi (John Sutherland).To be characteristically different from other films in the original two trilogies, the film dispensed with the opening crawl, and familiar side-wipe transitions.It was nominated for nine Academy Awards in total: Best Actor (Jack Nicholson with his first win after losing he previous year forChinatown (1974)), Best Actress (Louise Fletcher), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography (Bill Butler and Haskell Wexler), Best Director, Best Editing, Best Picture, Best Score (Jack Nitzsche) and Best Supporting Actor (Brad Dourif).It was a tremendous international (world-wide) box-office success, and launched the US career of its star Mel Gibson.