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Released
1999 · FILM

Grey Owl

A dream to save the wilderness. A secret that shocked the world.

Runtime
117 min
BiographyDramaWestern
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Archie Grey Owl works as a trapper in Canada during the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks him to teach her Indian ways. They live in the woods, where she is appalled by the way trapped animals die and adopts two orphaned beaver kits, helping Archie consider ending his trapping. He later works as a guide and naturalist writer, and the Canadian government hires him to save the beaver population in a conservation area at Lake Ajawaan in Prince Albert National Park. He writes a biography that brings him attention in Canada and invitations to lecture in England. Before he departs, he and Anahareo (Pony) marry. In England his secret is revealed, raising the question of whether Anahareo will continue to love him.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Lesley WalkerShot by Roger PrattScored by George FentonDesigned by Anthony Pratt

Box Office

1999 · Box office

Produced on a $30.0M budget

Production budget

$30.0M

Also known as

  • Grey Owl und der Schatz der Biberde
  • Búho Grises
  • Grey Owl - Gufo grigioit

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