Never Cry Wolf
by Carroll Ballard
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Actor: Brian Dennehy, Charles Martin Smith, Hugh Webster, Samson Jorah, Zachary IttimangnaqDirector: Carroll Ballard
Writer: Charles Martin Smith
Cinematographer: Hiro Narita
Editor: Michael Chandler
Editor: Peter Parasheles
Producer: Ron Miller
Writer: Farley Mowat
Writer: Ralph Furmaniak
Writer: Sam Hamm
Writer: Richard Kletter
Writer: Eugene Corr
Writer: Christina Luescher
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
DVD Reviews of Never Cry Wolf
DVD Review: Great Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband was pleasantly surprised that Amazon had this movie on DVD. Good movie--G rating!DVD Review: Never Cry Wolf
Summary: 5 Stars
Have always loved this movie. This particular copy is very good quality. Of course since the movie first came out we now have a 37" HDTV and HD DVD player which could have made a BIG difference;-) And it did!!!
Several of our friends have already borrowed it and loved it...
Thanks.
Dave Daggett
DVD Review: Cries out for Blue-Ray
Summary: 5 Stars
Charles Martin Smith was always typecast as the nerd/geek. Well, here's a starring role for the type, and Smith brings it off to perfection. As a scientist out to study wolves, not master nature, Smith develops his character from clumsy academic to man of the wilderness thanks to the imperative of sheer survival. He plays an everyman, not heroic, but fortified with the will to survive and also, midst the dire challenges, the enduring curiosity which marks the human species. He's half-starved, half-frozen, but he stops to stare at the wolves in wonder. As he sets about surviving he also sets about getting to known these creatures, and they him.
Director Carroll Ballard, whose few works have been of high quality (this one, Black Stallion, Fly Away Home, Duma), specializes in stories about humans' relationship with animals, in an understated and believable way, avoiding the pitfalls of cuteness that plague the genre. Which makes this one all the more remarkable, since it comes from Disney, who have made cuteness into an industry (and of whose acting stable Smith was a member).
The son of famed cinematographer Lucien Ballard, Carroll Ballard marks his work with stunning visuals. So, not only is there a well-played adult story of survival here, but a movie so beautiful, that it cries out for a Blue-Ray version.
DVD Review: Never Cry Wolf
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an old movie about real research. I have never read the research so I cannot comment on the movie's accuracy. However it is fun, touching, amusing, but with a very sad ending. I find the directing, acting and photography entertaining and meaningful.DVD Review: 2 stars out of 4
Summary: 2 Stars
The Bottom Line:
A dull film whose conservationalist message is often eschewed in favor of long stretches of Charles Martin Smith alone in the wilderness, Never Cry Wolf has bad narration, poor characters, long stretches of tedium and a jumbled moral: stay away.
Description of Never Cry Wolf
Filmed amid spectacular wilderness vistas, NEVER CRY WOLF reveals a world of hypnotic beauty and breathtaking cinematic imagery. An unforgettable adventure begins as Tyler, a young inexperienced biologist, is deposited alone onto the desolate Arctic terrain. Once settled, he struggles to endure the forces of nature as he documents the mysterious habits of the wolves he has been sent to study. An odyssey of self-discovery told through captivating drama, NEVER CRY WOLF is a haunting, lyrical film from the director of THE BLACK STALLION.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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