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Plot summary
Archibald Belaney, from England, went to Canada and became the trapper known as Archie Grey Owl. In the early 1930s a young Iroquois woman from town, Anahareo, asks him to teach her Indian ways. She lives with him in the woods, and she is troubled by how trapped animals die. She takes in two orphaned beaver kits, and she helps Archie turn away from trapping.
Cast
- Lee-Roy Jacobsas Hotel Porter
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Grey Owl (1999)
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- Richard Attenborough and his brother, the naturalist David Attenborough, were both in the audience at Grey Owl's 1936 lecture at De Montfort Hall in Leicester, the event the film recreates, and Attenborough said its advocacy of conservation influenced them.
- Pierce Brosnan got his woodcraft from the Canadian naturalist and canoe tripper Hap Wilson, who taught the actor how to throw an axe and how to paddle a canoe for the part.
- Grey Owl, which opened in Spain on 10 September 1999, was the last film Largo Entertainment ever made: the company went defunct that same year.
