该电影由杰里米·卡根执导，梅雷迪斯·萨拉格尔、约翰·库萨克、雷·怀斯、莱妮·卡赞、斯加特曼·克罗索斯、贝瑞·米勒、弗娜·布鲁姆、布鲁斯·M·费希尔、约翰·芬尼根等主演，于1985年上映。在102分钟的叙事中，《狼女传奇》（又名：娜提寻父记）Natty Gann (played by Meredith Salenger) is a twelve year old Depression era girl whose single-parent father leaves her behind in Chicago while he goes to Washington State to look for work in the timber industry. Natty runs away from the guardian she was left with to follow Dad. She befriends and is befriended by a wolf that has been abused in dog fights, hops a freight train west, and is presumed dead when her wallet is found after the train crashes. Dad gets bitter and endangers himself in his new job. Meanwhile Natty has a series of adventures and mis- adventures in various farmhouses, police stations, hobo camps, reform schools, and boxcars.