Never Cry Wolf

I’m not sure how this Disney film flew under my radar. Few do, just by the nature of who I spend a great deal of time with. Never Cry Wolf was full of surprises; from masticated mice (just a moment while I tamp down my gag reflex…), marking territory, and bare tush shots (which has Touchstone following right behind  ). 

A very pleasant surprise was the actor Charles Martin Smith. He so fit the part, that I checked to see if he wrote it. Sure enough, he was one of the narration writers. I never felt that he was playing a part, because he was living and breathing his character, Farley Mowat. Not a surprise was Brian Dennehy in all his unhinged glory.

My favorite line was “I wonder why it was that long ago I became a watcher of things; always watching others do and feel things I wouldn’t or couldn’t do myself--always standing off at a distance isolated, detached.” Until I heard that, I was a little confused why someone would jump at the chance to take the assignment of forced isolation. Even though he questioned the decision, it was a condition he was familiar with.

At one point in the movie, Farley studies an Inuit watching the wolves. That was my experience exactly. I studied the man who watched the wolves and I was captivated.