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Released
1983 · FILM

Never Cry Wolf

“They thought he couldn't do the job. That's why they chose him.”

Directed by
Carroll Ballard
Written by
Farley Mowat, Curtis Hanson
Runtime
105 min
AdventureDrama

Synopsis

A scientific researcher is assigned to a government-funded study known as The Lupus Project, tasked with investigating the potential "threat" posed by wolves in the northern wilderness. To complete the study, he must live alone in the wild for six months. During this time, he comes to understand the true, beneficial, and positive role of the wolf species.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

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 Michael ChandlerShot by Hiro NaritaScored by Mark Isham

Box Office

1983 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$29.6M

Budget$11.0M
Worldwide gross$29.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Wenn die Wölfe heulende
  • Un homme parmi les loupsfr
  • Mai gridare al lupoit

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