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Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Director: Carroll Ballard
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Sent to the desolate northern reaches of Canada to prove that the wolves are destroying the herds of caribou, Tyler (Martin Smith) might be any one of us left to fend for ourselves in a bleak landscape. Ballard's film, produced by Disney and resembling the old nature films, tells of an engaging, fearful scientist who grows to admire the wolves he is sent to condemn, adopts their diet (mouse stew minus the tails), and learns from an ancient, mystical Inuit (the furclad local inhabitants) that in true Darwinian fashion the wolves only cull the weaker members of the herd. For the most part very absorbing, the film suffers from some embarrassingly obvious symbolism.Author: JE
Cast & crew
Director: Carroll Ballard
Producer: Lewis M Allen, Jack Couffer, Joseph Strick
Cast: Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah, Hugh Webster, Martha Ittimangnaq full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 105 mins
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