Posts in October 14, 2011

Never Cry Wolf is a 1983 film adap­ta­tion of Farley Mowat’s 1963 book of the same name. The film fea­tures Charles Martin Smith as Tyler (a fic­tion­al­ized ver­sion of Mowat), a young biol­o­gist sent to study the impact of wolves on the cari­bou pop­u­la­tion in north­ern Canada. Tyler dis­cov­ers that the wolves sub­sist main­ly on small mam­mals, and that their rep­u­ta­tion as ruth­less killers of larg­er ani­mals is com­plete­ly unfounded. A while ago some­one (I can’t remem­ber who now — tell me if it was you) sug­gest­ed that I watch Never Cry Wolf because it promi­nent­ly fea­tures a bas­soon. This […]