Nikki, Wild Dog of the North

Nikki, Wild Dog of the North is a 1961 Walt Disney film directed by Jack Couffer and Don Haldane.
This story, based on the novel Nomads of the North by James Oliver Curwood, is about the adventures of a malamute dog named Nikki.
==Plot==
Nikki and his kind master, Andre Dupas (Jean Coutu), are traveling via canoe through the Canadian Rockies. When Nikki encounters Neewa, a bear cub whose mother was killed by a grizzly bear, Andre ties the two animals together, plops them in the canoe, and heads for the rapids. When the two animals become separated from Andre, the unlikely pair must learn to survive in the wilderness. When they reach land, they are forced to overcome the instinct that makes them natural enemies and join together in a search for food and shelter. Despite many fights, they eventually become friends and remain together even after their leash breaks.
With the coming of winter Neewa goes into hibernation and Nikki wanders off alone. He steals the bait from traps until he is captured by a vicious trapper named Jacques Lebeau (Emile Genest) and his reluctant Indian companion, Makoki (Uriel Luft). After watching the now full-grown dog kill a wolf in spite of the trap, Lebeau decides to train Nikki as a fighting dog although pit-fighting is illegal. When André, the new factor, challenges Lebeau for breaking the law, he is pushed into the pit with the brutalized killer dog. Nikki recognizes his old master, however, and joins André in fighting Lebeau, who is accidentally killed with his own knife. Later, while on a trip to André's trap line, Nikki spots his old friend, Neewa; but the dog realizes that the full-grown bear is happier roaming the wilds, and he chooses to remain by André's side.
==Cast==
*Nikki as Himself
*Neewa as Himself
*Jean Coutu as Andre Dupas
*Emile Genest as Jacques Lebeau
*Uriel Luft as Makoki
*Robert Rivard as Durante
*Taao as Himself
*Jacques Fauteux as Narrator
*The Nomads as Themselves
==Gallery==
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Tumblr mxkct1JzVt1qhcrb0o1 1280.jpg|Neewa encountering a couple goose chicks at a pond
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Nikki and Neewa.jpg|Nikki and Neewa having fun in the snow
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Nikki.jpg|Nikki starting to remember his owner
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Nikki wild dog france poster.jpg|Poster from the release in France on October 11, 1962, paired with a theatrical showing of The Hunting Instinct
Nikki wild dog japan poster.jpg|Poster from the release in Japan on November 22, 1961
File:P4453-1000x1000.jpg|Poster from the release in Poland in 1967
Nikki wild dog mexico lobby card.png|Lobby card from a release in Mexico
Pinocchio uk poster 1961 2.jpg|Poster from the release in the United Kingdom on December 18, 1961, on a double bill with a re-release of Pinocchio
==Copyright info==
The film's copyright was renewed on February 6, 1989.Online Copyright Catalog search (form autofilled, pressing "begin search" brings up the entry) The copyright to the story it is based on was also renewed in the U.S.,Catalog of Copyright Entries (Source material) but it is now in the public domain.
==References==
Category:Disney films
Category:1961 films
Category:Films
Category:Films about animals
Category:Nikki, Wild Dog of the North
Category:G-rated films
Category:Live-action films