- Wolf Dog
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name = Wolf Dog
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director =Sam Newfield
producer = Sam Newfield
writer = Louis Stevens
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starring = Juan Root
Don Garrard
music = John Bath
cinematography = Frederick Ford
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distributor =20th Century-Fox
released = 1958
runtime = 61 min.
country =Canada
language = English
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imdb_id = 0052401"Wolf Dog" (
1958 ) is aWestern movie , directed and produced bySam Newfield and released byRegal Films . In August of1957 , Newfield and a camera crew filmed the movie in and aroundMarkdale, Ontario , nearOwen Sound, Ontario ,Canada . The movie co-starred Hollywood actors Jim Davis,Allison Hayes andJohn Hart along with Canadian actorsAustin Willis and Tony Brown. Several locals were offered a chance to be unpaid "extras". Among those were Paul Hutton, Jerry Bartley, Constable Clarence Bowins, David Jackson, Officer Jack Johnston, Ron Wyvill, Don Wyvill.While not an artistic or commercial success, the film is noteworthy in that it was created almost 40 years before
Telefilm Canada and federal government subsidies enabled big-name movies to be filmed in Canadian locales. Markdale residents were delighted to have Hollywood make a film in their town.It was hoped a film set in "The Great North Country" would be a crossover hit in the U.S. and the Commonwealth, both lucrative movie markets. For reasons unknown, the film disappeared from the public eye for almost 50 years. One interesting, though unsubstantiated, rumor suggested one of the main actors wanted all traces of the film destroyed. The only known copies of the movie are an incomplete version stored at the
National Archives of Canada and a complete version at the U.S. Library of Congress. All distribution copyrights belong to20th Century Fox .External links
*imdb title|id=0052401|title=Wolf Dog
* [http://www.geocities.com/wolf1958dog/ Fansite]
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