Grey Owl

Director: Sir Richard Attenborough
Writer: William Nicholson
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Annie Galipeau
Cinematographer: Roger Pratt
Art direction: Claude Par/
Original music: Georges Fenton
 
Producers: Claude Léger, Sir Richard Attenborough, Jake Eberts, Diana Hawkins
Unit manager: Michel Chauvin
Executive producers: Gosette Perrotas
Production company: Transfilm, Beaver Productions, Allied Filmmakers

In the 1930s, young Englishman Archibald Belaney emigrates to Canada, and decides to live as a Native American named Grey Owl. While travelling as a trapper he meets Pony, a young Mohawk woman who is immediately enamoured with Grey Owl. She decides to follow him to the north of Canada, and although he resists her affections he eventually grows fond of her. Pony convinces Grey Owl to give up the cruelty of animal trapping and so he turns his hand to writing in order to make a living. Eventually, Grey Owl becomes a famous nature writer and conservationist, widely popular on the international lecture circuit. It is not until his death in 1938 that his true nationality, and his double-identity are exposed.

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