1st watched 1/15/2022 - (Dir-B. Reaves Eason):
Mixture of nature film and human adventure that somehow becomes a love triangle. This movie is based on a book named after the wolf leader in the story, "Swift Lightning" - so you kind of expect some of the story to revolve around him, but it starts as a headstrong woman writer, played by Beverly Roberts, is staying in a cabin when the locals even leave because they are scared of the wolves attacking and terrorizing the area. Than a rough trapper trying to get the writer to leave misses his boat, and is forced to stick around and help the woman survive. They travel to a little more inhabited area and run across a trader friend of the woman, who also tries to sway her to leave - starting a kind of fight over the woman. The nature story revolves around a dog named Firefly who lost his owner thru death, and won't leave the grave until she runs into "Swift Lightning" and they become attached. We see adventures involving the 2 animals plus a couple of playful bears and a talking crow. The mix of the nature footage and the human story are actually kind of too much. I feel like they should have focused on one or the other for a better movie. An interesting early film with cool Alaskan photography, but not a completely worthwhile venture as a movie.