Never Cry Wolf (1983)

[quizozapletl]

I love this movie. It is one of my favorites. There are, however, flaws to the wolf argument. I do hunt and I read. Wolfs will attack a large mammal (especially the young) and often will kill for fun leaving the meat to rot. Wolf is a beautiful predator but like any such creature it needs to be managed. Too many wolfs equal no Caribou or Elk...

[nothuman100]

Wolves would never waste the hunt on humans, they know that first chance it gets it will pull a gun out and murder them

[CareBearsAreSoCool]

If he shoots the wolf, I swear to god.. He's such a fucking ho bag D:

[Helmholtz53]

First saw this years ago at a Cinesphere ( Imax ) 70mm Film festival in Toronto. The opening credits alone were worth the price of admission! Thanks for posting.

[jeeperscreatures]

This movie is spectacular! A true Gem

[NorthofYou1]

One of the films that helped me become who I am. Thank you Carroll....

[4165mc]

i caught this film on the telly one saturday afternoon quite recently and couldnt stop watching. it is a mesmerising journey of discovery. i relate to the main character a lot and would love to live a life in the wild with just the animals (and maybe a small community). it is how we are supposed to live as human beings - most natural way to live and most fulfilling. i love the simplicity of this film too; the stillness, the peace and the slowly unfolding narrative.why not available on dvd in uk?

[sciamano69]

Un piccolo capolavoro!!!

[Orion6699]

Absolutely a great film.

[Numboss]

One of the most beautifully made and inspiring films of all time. It captures all the humour from the original book by Farley Mowat, while at the same time the profound ignorance we humans have of wild animals (except the Inuit, who seem to be spiritually linked with all of nature). A haunting, moving, Zen-like, transcendental film.

[the1tigglet]

this movie left an impression on me as a child, its been almost 40 years and i still remembered him eating frozen asparagus! LOL

[originalvalleykid]

my favorite movie, hits the heart in that hidden spot we all want.

[ManticoreFire]

This is my all time favorite movie. As an aspiring biologist, as a nature lover, and as movie goer, I cannot express how much I love this movie.

[MpowerdAPE]

this movie... "haunts" me.

[grimreaper957]

do you know where i can find the whole movie?

[Mizabella1234]

@grimreaper957 Check your library or buy it from somewhere.

[T0RK]

Been one of my favorite movies since I was 4 years old.

[bfangman]

@Rockholm66 Lighten up Francis.

[Rockholm66]

@bfangman

It's the absolute truth!

[Rockholm66]

A film for the emotionally intoxicated urbanite!

[grafikfeat]

@Rockholm66 I see your claims of wild life destruction as encroachment on your hunting. Nothing more. Wolves left the lower 48 because ranchers killed them off. Now there is a natural wisdom. Introduction of non native cattle, disease ridden animals into a pristine environment. Feh. Man lost his way on this continent 150 years ago when he drove Buffalo to the brink of extinction. As I said: Man is the dumbest animal in the woods. And if wildlife could throw rocks, he'd never enter the woods. Cya

[grafikfeat]

@Rockholm66 So? Still a great movie.

Now go complain about Indiana Jones surviving on the outside of the submarine when it crossed the Atlantic in the first movie. Sheesh... Just enjoy something for once.

[Rockholm66]

@grafikfeat

Indiana Jones movies are not trying to push an agenda, and Indiana Jones Movies didn't result in the greatest ecological disaster in American History. Yellowstone is a Biological desert because of this film, and Idaho has suffered wildlife destruction never seen before. Enjoy What? I don't sit on my ass watching movies, I am out in the wild's of Idaho, and the Illegal introduction of the Canadian Gray Wolf has destroyed much of the wildlife.

[grafikfeat]

@Rockholm66 There was no agenda. Regardless... Man has completely screwed up his environment. Starting w/ the ridiculous notion of putting out forest fires. To think that forests have gotten better w/ our stewardship just shows how stupid we really are. Millions of years of evolution waiting for our wisdom. Man is the dumbest animal in the woods. As for this movie/book, reintroduction of a predator killed off by man is perfectly acceptable to me. I seriously doubt your wolf habitat claims.

[MrJRR67]

I HAVE BUMPER STICK THAT SAID ( THAT THE ONLY THING MISSING FROM LIFE IS BACK GROUND MUSIC )

[TK42138]

@MrJRR67

Well said.

[Theclaidheamhmor]

By the time I was 8 I had probably watched this movie a hundred times. I watched it so much that I asked my dad if we could eat mice with gravy just like he did in the movie. I guess I just didn't see anything wrong with eating mice!

[TIMOTHYSAARINEN]

This was a great fucking movie! Saw it at the theater, bought it on VHS, bought it on DVD. I've watched it at least 12 times. Great acting, beautiful scenery. Someone used the word EPIC to describe this movie. I couldn't agree more!

[TK42138]

@TIMOTHYSAARINEN

Just watched it for the first time. There's just something about this sort of movie. Beautifully photographed - every shot is made to count. I think I'm going to have to add this to the dvd collection along with Eight Below and Alaska.

[djlespommes]

EPIC...is the perfect word to describe this movie

[everlastingcurves]

My GOD somebody remembers this movie!!! I saw it as a kid and loved it!! As I recall, it was my mother that dragged my ass to go see this, but I enjoyed it and she fell asleep. : ) LOL!!! Thanks SO much for posting this!!!

[Momotaro15]

@everlastingcurves This is a GREAT movie and deserved more recoginition than it recieved. 

[erinseth]

Than 4 uploading this vid, i was absent on the day my clas watched this.

[wellswithoutwater]

My wife watched this for the first time tonight and she summed it up- LIFE IS BITTERSWEET. I have watched this film at least 5 X since it first came out and it always brings forth feelings of melancholy, longing and sadness. It is my favourite movie of all time. I lived in Northern BC in my younger years and the most vivid memory I have is when I first saw a black wolf. Wolf killings are a tragedy.

[pinz2022]

@wellswithoutwater

I read all his books. Who gave him those damn mushrooms?!?

[BostonDots]

where do i find the full version

[BERSERKERpoetry]

@BostonDots check your library, or buy it off Amazon or Ebay or whatever.

[5tonyvvvv]

@BERSERKERpoetry This movie is a spiritual journey!, I had a similar experience living with the natives in Peru. the greatest thrill in life is to let live, and leave nature alone, along with its people, this earth is sacred we must respect all life! Great post!

[wellswithoutwater]

Three of my all time favourite movies. The other two being Bladerunner and The Bermuda Depths. I used to live in northern BC, Mackenzie BC Canada. I saw black wolves when I was a kid. I love wolves :) Thanks for posting.

[MiddleMadMen]

we are watching this in class LOVE THIS MOVIE. now im reading the book easy AR points hehe

[adirondaker]

@MiddleMadMen Many great books by Farley Mowat, as he lived them.

Try, The Snow Walker, People of the Deer and The Boat Who wouldn't Float.

[sirhope]

great film

[JoLouise1]

Saw the movie and it was awesome. Have the video recording from TV and still watch it from time-to-time. I love it even now. Would like to read the book though.

[MikeCT100]

Yes, a masterpiece.

[rocky112c]

I give this film the greatest respect. It is an underrated masterpiece and the messages it give out are way before their time. I lived in Gillam, Manitoba as a child in the 1970s and my Dad met Farley Mowat in a bar in Saskatoon.

[FlashpointGold]

My favorite movie of all time here.

[Speckie7]

I have watched this movie several times and never get tired of it:)

[TUKTU1]

"MASTERPIECE" le plus merveilleux film sur articus-lupus , excellent , magistral !!!!! Thank you for this scène !!!

[TheBlueRainWolf]

It's my favorite wolf movie, and a wonderful story. when I first caught it on television, I didn't think much of it but i started to watch and it amazed me. Too bad I didn't see the whole thing. But then i read the book by Farley, and now i'm looking for the movie.

H.O.W.L. Help Our Wolves Live

[TreeHugger6363]

I think over again

My small adventures, my fears.

The small ones that seemed so big,

For all the vital things I had to get and to reach.

And yet there is only one great thing, the only thing:

To live to see the great day that dawns,

And the light that fills the world.

--Inuit Poem from Never Cry Wolf

[Melulaful]

7:43 is that an english horn?? i play that

[AcaiBunch]

Did anyone else notice that in his "dream sequence" 4:11, the dogs that are actually attacking him are German Shepherds?

[Rashik30]

I just finshed reading the book today, it was great. :3

[firstkissxo]

I read this book when I was 11, and I'm 20 now and still love it...My dad made me read it and I love this kind of stuff. Grizzly man is another great documentary if you haven't seen it!

[BERSERKERpoetry]

Pretty good film, but it made me angry. I don't mind stories about people going into the wilderness unprepared, but I hate films where they die because of their stupidity. Same difficulty I had with "Into the Wild".

[AnarchoSoyaboy]

Me too it's my favorite movie... !

[songoftheopenroad]

@BERSERKERpoetry Just for the record,the main character in Never Cry Wolf doesn't die. He stays and lives among the Inuit.

[BERSERKERpoetry]

@songoftheopenroad Actually, neither happens. He goes home, back to where he lives in the south.

[songoftheopenroad]

@BERSERKERpoetry You must be talking about the book, not the movie.

[BERSERKERpoetry]

@songoftheopenroad Partially, yes, but his final narration suggests that he was going home. I don't think there's any question of that.

[BERSERKERpoetry]

@BERSERKERpoetry and as for what you originally said. I was talking about "Into the Wild" where the character dies. Of course he doesn't die in this film.

[spareaxe]

@BERSERKERpoetry Neither, he goes on to make more movies!

[englanddg]

@BERSERKERpoetry Exactly. In fact, he even mentions about how his experience has effected his sleep cycles...waking every 2 hours or so to survey the surroundings and change positions. He didn't die in the book. But, it's a great novel. Great movie too.

[TheMouterij]

Great! It's my favorite film too! And for Brian Dennehy: We need people like him to understand what's good and what's wrong. And I like wolves. Amarok is my leading gard... I'm from Holland (a frysian as a matter of fact) but I think I've got Inuit-genes...

[knateht]

I have once seen a movie about a manhunt in I believe Canada and/or Alaska. It was about a good-natured mountain man who made a lot of animals his friends. He would bake pancakes and feed them to a deer for instance. He would cover his smell with smoke from the campfire so the animals wouldn't be afraid. He think he was falsely accused in the movie. I also remember a scene where he floated past the search party on a sheet of ice, covered by a blanket. Any one knows which movie this is?

[MsFifthstone]

great book

[kkkat202]

I had to watch this for science class...

Never read the book though

[lifeisdepressing]

i usually dont take an interest in books like these.. but i love wolves so much... i had to read it.. and it is a great book..

[MaritaSiddal]

My dad's favorite film of all time. The only one he has ever watched start to finish without falling asleep! I'm impressed to see someone so young with such a deep appreciation for it, and an urgency to share it.

[BERSERKERpoetry]

It's a truly great film, unbelievably so. It never grows old for me.

[beansuck]

ahhhhhhhhhh this book is so boring

[lifeisdepressing]

its a great book u just gotta keep reading it.. it gets more interesting...

[colotiv]

brian dennehy ......perfect in that part . you just knew he couldnt be trusted

[ozzie1397]

i realii like dis movie,,,nd thts another reason y i wnt to go 2 canada, not only to seek out my heratige but 2 c the moutins nd forest..love it!!

[TheStorminnorman09]

My beautiful Canada. What a magnificent land!

[MoreAmericanGraffiti]

This movie... is different from this normal made-for-television movies... The actor likes his role, I can see.

[BERSERKERpoetry]

It's not a made-for-TV movie. It was a theatrical film.

[MoreAmericanGraffiti]

Oh... I didn't know that. That's embarassing for me..

Sorry!

[gotmilk3001]

This is also a true story :p

[MoreAmericanGraffiti]

Hmp. I know :D

[SebastianEngland]

at 1:23 that was me when I moved to the mountains of the Czech Republic...

[ipodletitrock]

lol.. at 2:25... he just falls

[druidia9]

There is something magical about this movie. The sense of space, of loneliness, of life in the raw. Rarely have I been so enthralled by a movie so as to feel I was walking in the steps of the main character. And the wolves...oh lord, such magnificent animals, in their element. And we so much out of ours. One of my top 10 movies ever.

[eldictator1]

@druidia9 I agree. Every time i see this movie every 5-10 years, I stop all that I'm doing and just go into this deep relaxed state almost like a trance. The pacing and setting just puts you into deep relaxation

[TK42138]

@eldictator1

I've just watched this movie for the first time this morning (29th Jan 2011) on BBC2. Awesome - cinematography, acting, scenery, casting, just perfect!

[eldictator1]

@TK42138 I watched it too!

Funnily enough I haven't seen it for about 13 years (bbc2 again), I thought about the movie a few weeks ago for some reason not knowing it's name, I was planning to do an internet search because the only guy i recognised is the pilot..then for some reason I switched over this morning and found it...Then I just sat engrossed for 2 hours...need to buy it on dvd

[TK42138]

@eldictator1

I was supposed to be doing some work on the car but had to stop to watch this film.

[anonamiso]

@druidia9 I agree. Magical one of my favorite films ever. Defines solitude that most people never crave or understand..but, I do.

[druidia9]

@anonamiso - I am happy for you anonamiso. Very few go within, truly. It takes courage.

[omfgnah]

Also the scence where he breaks into the ice.. cut... snow rabbit... quiet.. nature... cut... man fights for his life under water... etc.

[omfgnah]

the scene where the wolf comes close to his tent sniffling and stuff is SO amazing. unbelievable! One of my favorite Movies, too.

[robbieopen]

Intro is the best in a movie.

[HarlequinJitsu]

Berserker = The Bearskin wearer.

Berserkers wore bear-skin.

Great movie. I look forward to seeing in again.

[Trajan3876]

I agree with my fellow posters. My dad took me to see this in theatres when I was 7. Since then, I have always loved it. Studios would never make a movie like this now. Something spiritual about it, but no religion. Great film. Thanks for posting.

[30000fps]

This was a real good movie.

Watched it lots of time.

When you start to watch it you just sink in to it.

[zachpo13]

i had to read this book for english. im procrastinating. due tomarrow

[taspineda]

I showed this movie to my High School art classes/earth day assignment. They loved it. Its mezmerizing.

[sugar2cube]

i had to read it for science and the project is due today, not even close to finished

[josephdlang]

I saw this movie in 1983. The music stunned me. From the very first moments, it felt as though the music had been written for me. I saw it five times in that first run. I recently found it on DVD after a long absence, having lent my VHS copy to someone. The music still speaks to me, in some manner that I don't fully understand, but every so often, I have to take it down, often late at night, and run it again. A powerful movie with a powerful soundtrack.

[diccidahling]

that soundtrack next to the artic scenery is amazing.

the best is when you're young and seeing it on the big screen and being overwhelmed by the senses.

I dunno if its just the fact i'm older now, or the fact movies these days are nothing like this.

[BERSERKERpoetry]

Movies from every time period are the same as others, sometimes you just have to look harder sometimes. Here's a good place to start - "The Snow Walker" (2003). It's directed by Charles Martin Smith, who's the star of "Never Cry Wolf", and it's also another adaptation of a Farley Mowat novel.

[omfgnah]

thx for this hint dude

[SLACKER614]

saw this film when it came out..and cant watch it enough...class...5*****

[tucuxibr]

Very Good

[ToeIn2194]

superb...on all levels...life changing film

[doctalee]

Amazing movie

the music is beautiful too

[lengelwolf]

I remember going to see this in the theatre on Christmas Eve 1983, when I was 15. I didn't expect much, but it was a transformative movie for me, and a great experience.

[nickotwincities]

I saw it around the same time and liked it, but I needed to see it again a little later in life to get that transformation that you mention. Few movies can convey 'nature mysticism' and life depth as strongly as this film in my opinion. What an unknown gem!

[adoerwald]

OMG LOOOOOVE !

[yorugua97]

Great movie. Love it! Thanks for posting.

[SkiiErChiCK666]

can anyone please tell me what farley plays in this movie to make that wolf sound

!??!?!!

[elwimpo1974]

the music is heavenly!!!

[BERSERKERpoetry]

Oh, man, I agree. Some of Mark Isham's best work ever. Hard to believe it was his first score!

[elwimpo1974]

yes, i was 9years old in 1983 and i still have the same feelings when i see the movie!!

its just amazing the acteur, the music, the snow and ofcourse the howling wolfs...

i never forget

[linkslover25]

omg! look... u can see that the "wolves" that attack in his dream are nothing more than furry german shepherds!

[Ellukey]

would you like to have real wolves chasing and ripping at you?

[linkslover25]

well yea thats true, but they could have at least used huskys or malamutes.

[linkslover25]

not really

[ThirdEyeVisionary]

best movie ever.

[Sumiland]

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this movie!!! Used to have it on tape. Haven't seen it for years, but would love to have it in digital format. Thanks for posting this little "taste" :D

[chilla20rag]

someone upload the whole movie!!!