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Never Cry Wolf | Year: 1983 Classification: Action/Adventure Directed: - Carroll Ballard Actors/Actresses: - Charles Martin Smith - Brian Dennehy Great movie, fairly good DVD Disney's best and least publicized non-animation film. This very sparse, minimalized, almost transendental film is a great relief in an age of bells & whistles. Even the score is very hollow and hauntingly gorgeous! There is no sex, no car chase, no guns, no explosions, no special effects, and a cast of only about 4 actors, all men; yet this film will keep you interested again and again. Anyone who loves the outdoors and animals should see this fabulous film! The DVD lacks a few extras such as subtitling and foreign languages, and a commentary or making-of feature would be awesome as the filming of this movie must be as much of a spectacular tale as the film itself. But the picture-quality is quite good if just a wee bit grainy. Charles Martin Smith is great in this film and should have received an Oscar for a grand performance as an out of place scientist who slowly comes to adapt himself to the arctic wilderness. I have always loved this rare and beautiful film. Feels Just Like Arctic Alaska My wife Chris and I live in the far north, and watch this movie again and again. I remember one winter evening with chill factors about 80 below zero when we put on our cross country skis and made our way 2 miles to a restaurant on the shores of the Chukchi Sea.<BR>We had hot tea and reindeer soup and watched "Never Cry Wolf" on national TV. Even though we have a video copy at home, this was special, with the winds howling around the old wooden restaurant building and the sky above the ice-covered ocean a deep black.<BR>Charles Martin Smith is at his best as the suddenly transplanted researcher.<BR>But I know bush pilots like the one played by Brian Dennehy---they fly all over Arctic Alaska and keep us all going!!!<BR>And the Inuits Ootok and Mike are real as well, especially their knowledge of the wildlife, and their low-key and economical use of words. <BR>One Inupiaq elder told me once that everytime you speak, you lose part of your brain. So I'll sign off now, but please, get this film and thoroughly enjoy it, on a regular basis. Great movie and great book! This was one of the first (and few) books I read for fun while I was growing up. Then when the movie came out, it was the icing on the cake. Today I'm ordering it for my dad for Father's Day in rememberance of "back then." I can't wait to watch it with him after all these years. Buy Never Cry Wolf at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Never Cry Wolf Search with the Priority Search Engine on Never Cry Wolf This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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