Never Cry Wolf (film)

Never Cry Wolf
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Carroll Ballard
Screenplay by	Curtis Hanson Sam Hamm Richard Kletter
Based on	Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
Produced by	Lewis Allen Jack Couffer Joseph Strick
Starring	Charles Martin Smith Brian Dennehy
Cinematography	Hiro Narita
Edited by	Michael Chandler Peter Parasheles
Music by	Mark Isham
Production companies	Walt Disney Pictures Amarok Productions Ltd.
Distributed by	Buena Vista Distribution
Release dates	October 7, 1983 (1983-10-07) (limited) January 27, 1984 (1984-01-27) (release)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English Inuktitut
Budget	$11 million
Box office	$27.6 million

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 of the same name.^[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. The film also features Brian Dennehy and Zachary Ittimangnaq. It was the first Disney film to be released by the studio under the renamed Walt Disney Pictures label. The film was released on October 7, 1983, for a limited distribution, and in the regular theaters on January 27, 1984.