Grey Owl (1999)
Release: October 1, 1999 | Runtime: 1h 57m | Rating: 5.6
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?
A dream to save the wilderness. A secret that shocked the world.
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Main cast
- Pierce Brosnan as Grey Owl
- Stewart Bick as Cyrus Finney
- Vlasta Vrana as Harry Champlin
- Annie Galipeau as Pony
- Neil Kroetsch as First Hunter
- Serge Houde as Second Hunter
- Peter Colvey as Hotel Guest
- Nathaniel Arcand as Ned White Bear
- Jacques Lussier as Hotel Manager
- Lee-Roy Jacobs as Hotel Porter
- Jimmy Herman as Chief Pete Misebi
- John Dunn-Hill as Sim Hancock
- Graham Greene as Jim Bernard
- Gordon Masten as Gus Mitchell
- Chip Chuipka as First Trapper
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What is Grey Owl about?
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?
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