Grey Owl (1999)
Director:
Richard Attenborough
Tagline:
« He Fought To Change The World »
Actors:
Archie Grey Owl
Cyrus Finney
Harry Champlin
Pony
First Hunter
Rating:
(4’258 votes)
(4’258 votes)
Quotes:
« Pow Wow Chief: Men become what they dream… you have dreamed well.
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[1:37:30]
[last lines]
« Cyrus Finney: He never spoke in public again. That night, when we watched Archie strip away all pretense of being an Indian; I knew that what he was saying was far more important than who he really was. Afterwards, he slipped silently into the night and went back to his remote cabin on Lake Ajawaan. He died there, suddenly, of pneumonia, two years later, in April, 1938. In recognition of what Archie was trying to achieve, the North Bay Nugget agreed to hold my story while he lived. They ran it the day after he died, and it made front page all over the world. Pony never stopped campaigning against trapping and, slowly, because of what she and Archie did, there were laws passed to protect the beaver, and they returned to the lakes and streams of Canada. But once his true identity was revealed, Archie's early warning about the natural world, about keeping it safe for future generations was quickly dismissed and then… conveniently forgotten. Only many years later, when the truth could no longer be ignored, did he come to be seen… as a man ahead of his time.
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Trailer:
Grey Owl
Runtime:118 minutes
Plots:
The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.
Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in 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 at how trapped animals die. She adopts two orphaned beaver kits and helps Archie see his way to stop trapping. Instead, he works as a guide, a naturalist writer, and then the Canadian government hires him to save the beaver in a conserve by Lake Ajawaan in Prince Albert National Park. He writes a biography, which brings him attention in Canada and invitations to lecture in England. Before he leaves, he and Anahareo (Pony) marry. In England, his secret is revealed. Will Anahareo continue to love him?
