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List Price: $24.98 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Letterboxed • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 07 October, 1983 DVD Release : 22 February, 2000 |
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Never Cry Wolf description Carroll Ballard's 1983 adaptation of Farley Mowat's autobiographical novel turns his life-changing experience studying the wolves in Canada's inhospitable North into a moving drama of one man's courage and discovery of nature's majesty. Charles Martin Smith plays green biologist Tyler, sent by the Canadian government to "prove" that the wolves are depleting the caribou herds, but what he finds is a natural world in perfect harmony where he becomes a tolerated outsider. Dumped unprepared in the wilds by a hard drinking bush pilot (Brian Dennehy), Tyler learns survival skills from the aged Eskimo who saves his life and the rules of coexistence from a neighboring wolf (which results in a literal pissing contest as man and beast mark their respective territories). Tyler's journey culminates in the majestic run with the wolf pack, an exhilarating sequence where for an instant he becomes one with natural environment of the wilds. For all its beauty, however, Tyler's experience becomes a bittersweet lesson as the encroachment of hunters, tourism, and the social landscape threaten the natural order. As in his previous film, the delicate and lovely The Black Stallion, Ballard's astounding visual treatment captures the awesome natural beauty of the Canadian wilderness with power and poignancy. Kevin Costner's Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves explores many of the themes presented in this film, but without the resonance or beauty of Ballard's unsung masterpiece. --Sean Axmaker |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Unknown little classic |
| This is a little known but beautifully filmed and more than competently acted movie with veteran troopers Charles Martin Smith and Brian Dennehy in the lead roles, and Zachary Ittimangnaq as the Eskimo, Ootek. Based on Mowat's own experiences in the far north, it chronicles his journey from a naif, fledgeling biologist steeped in academia to a seasoned and skilled arctic denizen. The story is entertaining but the book's lessons are also wise beyond its pretentions.
For example, Mowat is originally sent to the arctic under the assumption that the wolves are negatively impacting the caribou herds, and something needs to be done about that. But he finds instead (not too surprisingly, in my opinion), that nature is wiser than we, and the wolves and caribou are in a dynamic balance that humans would only destroy with our incomplete knowledge and ill-thought out and meddlesome management policies. After forty years, the book still has the power to captivate and hold one's interest from the first page until the very last, and the movie, unlike most cinematizations of books, holds true to the original and is worth your time and money to rent. |
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