Balto Page #3

Synopsis: A half-wolf, half-husky named Balto gets a chance to become a hero when an outbreak of diphtheria threatens the children of Nome, Alaska in the winter of 1925. He leads a dog team on a 600-mile trip across the Alaskan wilderness to get medical supplies. The film is based on a true story which inspired the Iditarod dog sled race.
Director(s): Simon Wells
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
G
Year:
1995
78 min
2,133 Views


Just terrible.

Steele and his team... are lost.

- No! Steele? - What

do you mean? - How come?

- When?

- They missed the second checkpoint.

They're off the trail.

Can't they send another team?

It's too dangerous

for us and our men.

What about... them little ones?

The medicine won't be here in time.

We're going to lose them.

Rosy.

Please, Doctor,

it's the only medicine we got.

.

Jenna?

Rosy.

Balto, please.

Don't go crazy on me now.

This is foolishness.

You will die like a dog!

Oh, uh, no offence.

You will be frozen stiff by morning!

When you are big frozen-stiff

statue named Balto,

don't come running to me!

- He says...

- "Where is he going?"

He's going into freezing coldness

to find a dog he doesn't like

to bring medicine back to a town

that doesn't like him!

Oh, no! I'm beginning

to understand the bear!

Yes! Yes! Count us in!

Bears! Dogs!

Balto! Balto! Put me down!

No brains at all! Might as well

be talking to hu... mans.

So, let's go get the medicine.

Wait a minute. Now you're coming?

Spending days in bitter cold,

facing wild animals.

risking death from exposure...

.. is like holiday in old country.

Oh! Great! We're goin' on holiday!

Balto?

Good, Balto!

You took on the roughest, toughest.

meanest tree in the forest...

and you won.

I'm marking the trail.

He's marking our trail.

He's very clever.

And here I've been dropping bread crumbs!

I spy with my little eye

something beginning with "S".

Steele.

Bears!

Come on.

Steele and his team passed this way.

Boy, is he lost.

Steele!

We're going in circles!

- What?

- Gaa-aaah!

Circles is a good thing. I mean,

they're, uh... They're circular.

I know what I'm doing! It's...

It's... this way! Come on!

Ohh! I hit my head on somethin'.

Yeah. My head.

Looks like he's hurt bad, Steele.

W- what are we gonna do now, Steele?

Brilliant! Right on the beak!

What a bull's-eye!

That did it! Who did that?

I- It was him.

Guys, I think...

I think we should keep moving.

Is that your answer to all problems?

Motion?

Yeah, yeah! It's good.

Come on! Let's get going.

"Come on, boys. Let's go, boys.

Faster, boys. "

Easy to say for a guy with four legs!

OK, that's it.

Is time for goose to

kick a little bear butt.

Aha! Finally!

Your old Uncle Boris

is making an impression!

Now what?

Jenna?

Balto!

Geronimo!

Luk! Muk!

They cannot swim!

What? Polar bears who can't swim?

He's drowning!

No!

Well?

I don't see them.

Where are they?

- Balto!

- Muk! Luk!

Balto!

Come to life. Come to life.

Breathe! Come on!

Is he be OK? He's not breathing.

He doesn't look very well.

Stop hitting him. Uncle Boris!

Balto, I was so scared

I got people bumps.

Boris...

I know you think

this trip is crazy, but...

I'm glad you came.

Who else should you bring on a wild

goose chase but a goose, hmm?

- Are you OK?

- Are you OK? Jen...

I'm fine. Look, a message came through,

we have to take the mountain trail.

But if we take Eagle Pass,

it'll save us half a day.

It's blocked. The mountain trail

is dangerous, but we can do it.

I'm beginning to see

there isn't anything you can't do.

I'm seeing a few things too.

and it's making the ice melt.

I hate bears!

You guys oughta learn how to swim someday.

You'd be very good at it.

Of course we were in the water!

We were moving, we got wet...

Luk! We were swimming!

Ohh! Clumsy.

- No, you're not. You're hurt.

- I'm fine.

Maybe I'm not so fine.

- You should all go ahead without me.

- Jenna...

I'll be slowing everyone down.

Rosy can't hold out much longer.

Muk, you and Luk carry

Jenna back to town on this.

And this time don't take time out for a swim!

You can make sure of that, Boris.

You're gonna lead them home.

Just follow my marks.

- You're going alone?

- Won't be the first time.

Here. Afraid it won't keep you very warm.

Yeah, it will.

Well, of course Balto will come back.

He's Balto, will he?

Hey! I'm coming back

with the medicine.

I promise, Jenna.

Go ahead, guys. Take her home.

Balto, I do not like

leaving you out here alone.

Who's going to tell you

how cold you are?

Boris.

They need you even more than I do.

Let me tell you something, Balto.

A dog cannot make this journey alone.

But maybe a wolf can.

Right, you two balls of fluff! Let's move!

Hey! Two, three, four!

Nome. Stop.

Cannot send more antitoxin. Stop.

Weather too severe. Stop.

Lost sled team only hope. Stop.

Our prayers are with them.

Anchorage. Stop.

Steele.

Oh!

Balto!

- Is that Balto?

- How did you find us?

- Is anyone hurt?

- Everyone... is... fine.

Yeah, but our mushier hit his head

and he didn't get up.

- And he's not movin'.

- All right, follow me.

I can lead you home.

We don't need your help!

- maybe we should listen to him.

How would youse get us home?

Well, I marked the trail, like this.

- Oh! Yeah!

- Ohh!

I'll get us back.

I'm the lead dog. I'm in charge.

Then let me take back the medicine.

They're getting sicker.

Touch that box

and I'll tear you apart.

- Two bones says Steele takes him.

- You're on.

Steele, I'm not leaving

without that medicine.

Who do you think you are?

Hey, this is gonna be good.

Since... Since when do you need

a pedigree to help someone?

Steele.

Let me help you.

Look at his eyes!

- He'll feel that tomorrow.

-1 think he is feeling it now!

Ouch!

I don't want to fight.

- Whoa! That can't be legal!

- Yeah!

That stuff is fragile!

What's with Steele?

All Balto wants to do is help.

Ah! Look!

Oh, good boy.

Mush!

Go ahead, wolf-dog!

You'll never get home!

I'll make sure of that.

I'll show 'em.

Why not this way?

How about over here?

Oops! Wrong way!

Oh, no.

Which way, Balto, which way?

- Which way?

- Uh, this way.

- Why are you taking us in circles?

- I'm not!

I mean, I don't know. It's Steele.

Maybe we was

better off with him there.

No! Come on. Mush!

Balto, slow down! Wait... Uhh!

Hey! Hey! Goin' too fast!

Look out!

All right!

Good catch, Balto!

I don't get it.

how could Balto hope to

find Steele and his team?

They were off the trail.

Well, he's... tracking them.

That mutt?

Tracking a championship team

in a blizzard?

- Balto?

- Steele!

- You're alive!

- You're back!

- Where ya been?

- Are ya OK?

Steele, w-where are the others?

- What happened to you?

- Well, one by one they... fell.

Frozen, barely alive.

I pulled four onto the sled.

Three more on my back!

And, uh, I walked...

and I walked.

but i-it was just...

it was too late.

They were...

What about the medicine?

Well, uh, I... I went on,

d- dragging the medicine alone...

all alone...

and... and then suddenly...

that wolf-dog appeared, Balto.

H- he demanded I let him

take the medicine.

You know, he just wanted

so much to be a hero in your eyes.

And h-he grabbed the crate.

but he couldn't handle it.

H- he couldn't see the patch of ice...

Th-the snow, the wind and...

And then the log and the cliff...

Well, he just didn't have a ch...

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