Never Cry Wolf (film)
| Never Cry Wolf | |
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Carroll Ballard |
| Produced by |
Lewis Allen Jack Couffer Joseph Strick |
| Screenplay by |
Curtis Hanson Sam Hamm Richard Kletter |
| Based on | The autobiography by Farley Mowat |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Mark Isham |
| Cinematography | Hiro Narita |
| Edited by | Michael Chandler Peter Parasheles |
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Production
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Walt Disney Pictures
Amarok Productions Ltd. |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Distribution |
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Release date
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October 7, 1983 |
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Running time
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105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Inuktitut |
| Budget | $11 million |
| Box office | $27.6 million |
Never Cry Wolf is a 1983 American drama film directed by Carroll Ballard. The film is an adaptation of Farley Mowat's 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.
The film has been credited as being responsible for the establishment of Touchstone Pictures, which was created by the Walt Disney Studios a year after the film's release. In the early 1980s, Walt Disney Pictures, under the guidance of Walt Disney's son-in-law Ron W. Miller, was experimenting with more mature plot material in its films, drawing controversy regarding its traditional family-friendly image being affected.
The narration for the film was written by Charles Martin Smith, Eugene Corr and Christina Luescher.
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 area's caribou population is declining, believed to be due to wolf-pack 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 sub-zero frozen Arctic lake. Tyler is at a loss of what to do about his situation until he is rescued by a traveling Inuit named Ootek (Zachary Ittimangnaq), who transports him and his gear off the ice and builds a shelter for him.
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