Never Cry Wolf (film)
Never Cry Wolf is a 1983 American drama film directed by Carroll Ballard. The film is an adaption of Farley Mowats 1963 autobiography Never Cry Wolf and stars Charles Martin Smith as a government biologist sent into the wilderness to study the caribou population, whose decline is believed to be caused by wolves, even though no one has seen a wolf kill a caribou. The film also features Brian Dennehy and Zachary Ittimangnaq. It was the first Disney film to be released under the new Walt Disney Pictures label.
Young, naive Canadian biologist Tyler Charles Martin Smith is assigned by the government to travel to the isolated Canadian arctic wilderness and study why the areas caribou population is declining, believed to be due to wolfpack attacks amongst his orders to study them he is also given a gun and required to kill one wolf and examine its stomach contents. Tyler receives a baptism of fire into bush life with a trip by bush plane piloted by Rosie Brian Dennehy. After landing at the destination, Rosie leaves Tyler in the middle of a subzero frozen Arctic lake. Tylers indecision imperils him when he falls into the freezing water, until he is rescued by a traveling Inuit named Ootek Zachary Ittimangnaq, who builds a shelter for him.Alone, Tyler divides his days between research and survival, while nights are fraught with nightmares of wolf attacks upon him. He soon encounters two wolves which he names George and Angeline, who have pups, and discovers they seem as curious of him as he is of them. He and the wolves begin social exchanges, even urinemarking their territories, producing trust and respect between them. Noticing that they havent eaten any caribou and only mice, he begins a side experiment of eating only mice for protein sustenance. ........
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