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Never Cry Wolf is a 1983 American drama film directed by Carroll Ballard.The film is an adaptation of Farley Mowat's 1963 "subjective non-fiction" book. [1] The film 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.
Never Cry Wolf is a fictional account of the author's subjective experience [1] observing wolves in subarctic Canada [2] by Farley Mowat, first published in 1963 by McClelland and Stewart. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1983. It has been credited for dramatically improving the public image of the wolf.
In a 1964 book review published in Canadian Field-Naturalist, [29] Frank Banfield of the National Museum of Canada, a former Canadian Wildlife Service scientist, compared Mowat's 1963 bestseller to Little Red Riding Hood, stating, "I hope that readers of Never Cry Wolf will realize that both stories have about the same factual content."
Charles Martin Smith (born October 30, 1953) is an American actor and filmmaker, based in British Columbia, Canada.. His breakout role was as Terry "The Toad" Fields in George Lucas' film American Graffiti (1973), which he reprised for its sequel More American Graffiti (1979).
The company registered a loss of $33 million in 1983, resulting primarily from such films as the adaptation of Ray Bradbury's horror-fantasy novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, the horror-comedy The Devil and Max Devlin starring Elliott Gould and Bill Cosby, and the dramas Tex and Never Cry Wolf, the latter a PG release that featured male ...
McCoy made many appearances in small roles on several noted television shows before landing her first lead role. She is best known for her starring role as Mercedes in 2005's Cry Wolf, where she met her long-term boyfriend Jared Padalecki; however, the two ended their relationship in 2008. [2]
They're called the Wolfpack, the six Angulo brothers whose father locked them in a New York City apartment for 14 years. After becoming the subject of an award-winning documentary, they're finally ...
He then directed Never Cry Wolf (1983), based on Farley Mowat's autobiographical book of the same name, which detailed Mowat's experiences with Arctic wolves. [8] In the 1990s, he made two films: Wind (1992) and Fly Away Home (1996). His most recent film is Duma (2005), about a South African boy's friendship with an orphaned cheetah. [9]