(DOG BARKING)
(PANTING)
Well, it was here... Someplace.
But we've already been past here.
(CHUCKLES)
The trees have grown so big.
It's been so long since my last visit.
(SIGHS)
(DOG BARKS)
GIRL: Come on, Blaze.
Grandma, when was the last time you were here?
(CHUCKLES) Years and years ago.
Way before you were born, sweetheart.
(BLAZE BARKING)
GIRL: Oh, look! Blaze found a squirrel.
GRANDMA: Now, just a minute.
I'm trying to get my bearings.
Oh, there are so many paths here.
So easy to get turned around. Come on, darling.
Grandma, we're in the middle of nowhere!
(LAUGHS) We're right in the middle of New York City.
But you're going to make yourself tired walking so long.
Nonsense. It hasn't been more than a quarter of an hour.
(SIGHS) Not much further.
Blaze is getting tired.
Oh, I see. (CHUCKLES)
Grandma, what are we looking for anyway?
Uh, a memorial.
A me-what?
(CHUCKLES)
A reminder of a wonderful story...
And a place very far away from here.
What place is that, Grandma?
Nome, Alaska.
It's a small town almost on top of the world.
Hmm.
Now, that really was in the middle of nowhere, sweetheart.
In the cold winter of 1925,
it was snowing hard.
Hmm.
Back then, the fastest and most reliable way of getting around
was with teams of dogs pulling long sleds.
Races were held every year to find out the best team.
(DOGS BARKING)
And the competition was very fierce.
(BARKING CONTINUES)
MAN 1: Mush!
(PANTING) Giddap, boys!
(BARKING CONTINUES) Hup! Hup! Hyah!
Giddap, Steele! Giddap, giddap!
(PANTING CONTINUES)
Haah!
(BARKING)
Aaah!
Steele! Whoa! Whoa, boy!
Steele, we're not gonna make it! (GROANS)
Hyah!
MAN 2: Easy, now, easy!
MAN 1: Steele, hold back. Hold back, hold back!
(SNARLS)
(GROWLS) (YELPS)
(DOGS YELPING)
(STEELE PANTING)
(DOGS BARKING)
Ohh! Steele!
(PANTING) Ha!
MAN 1: Get in line, Steele!
Get in line!
Mush! Mush!
It's the three-mile marker.
(GRUNTING AND SQUAWKING)
Balto, get your slobbering mouth off me!
Come on. Let's go, Boris.
We can cut around the back and catch the end of the race.
Oh, no. No, no, no. I'm a delicate country bird.
I hate going into town.
Ah, come on. What's the worst that can happen?
(BORIS YELLING)
Whoa! (SPUTTERING)
Please! Aah! (SPUTTERING CONTINUES)
Why do I let you talk me into these things?
(YELLING)
Ai... Aaaah!
Ohhh! (GRUNTING)
MAN: Huh?
What do...
Eeeh!
Whoa! (SQUAWKS)
(GRUNTS) Aaah!
(GASPS) Aaaaah!
(GRUNTS) BORIS: Whoa-ho!
Bring that back, you thief!
(BORIS HONKING)
(DOGS BARKING)
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
You are putting me down now,
Mr. Golden Retriever?
(CHUCKLES)
Whatever you say, Boris.
Every time there's a race, you run around like you're in it.
Maybe one day I will be.
BORIS: Heel, boy!
Boris Goosinoff is no spring chicken...
Hey!
(CRASHING SOUNDS)
I'm no spring penguin, either.
Oy, it's cold! (TEETH CHATTERING)
Aiii!
MAN: Look! The two-mile mark!
Come on! We don't want to miss the finish.
Oh, that would be a tragedy.
Aaah!
BORIS: I was being sarcastic.
(CHUCKLES) Okay, you can open your eyes now.
Ohh!
(LAUGHING)
I love these runners! (BARKING)
I love this brush bow!
I love this sled!
Jenna, Jenna, you're lead dog! (CHUCKLING)
Okay, just a minute. Come on. Mush!
Then you'll need this. (GASPS)
A real musher's hat! We're a real sled team now!
(CHUCKLING) Mush!
Mr. Johanssen, the sled is beautiful.
We're very grateful.
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!
Rosy's grateful too, huh?
Thank you! Yeah, so I gather. (CHUCKLING)
Watch this! Coming, sweetheart.
I don't know, honey. I think
we should've gotten her the doll house.
(BARKING) ROSY: It's the one-mile marker.
Mush, Jenna, mush! Let's win this race!
Whoo-hoo!
I think she'll learn to like it.
Jenna. Easy, girl.
Whoa! BOY: Dad, I'm full.
Good morning, Jenna. Ought to be a close race, don't you think?
Maybe even neck and... Neck.
Say something about her new collar before she gets whiplash.
Um, Dixie, what a pretty collar. Is it new?
What, this old thing?
Yeah. Do you think, um, Steele will notice?
I'm afraid the only way Steele notices anyone
is if they're wearing a mirror.
MAN: Watch that corner, son.
They're comin'!
(CHEERING)
(DOGS BARKING)
(PANTING)
(SWOONING)
MAN: Come on, Steele!
WOMAN: You can do it!
ROSY: Jenna! Stay, girl! (JENNA BARKING)
WOMAN: That's some dog!
(CHEERING CONTINUES)
ROSY: Jenna! (BARKS)
(LAUGHING) Jenna!
Hold on. Come on, Steele!
(GRUNTS) Oh, no!
(GASPS)
My hat! (GRUNTS)
(DOGS BARKING)
It's that stray dog!
He's gonna ruin the race!
Oww... Aaah!
(PANTING) Hey!
Outta my way, lobo.
Yiii!
(PANTING)
(SNARLS)
(GASPS)
(BARKING CONTINUES)
(GASPS)
When will you learn to stay on the sidelines?
(CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING)
(SPUTTERS)
(BEEPING)
"To Juneau Daily Chronicle. Stop.
"Steele wins first place of season. Stop. "
(YAWNS)
"Three-time winner keeps golden collar. Stop.
"Nome. Stop. "
That Steele is some dog, huh, Morse?
(CHUCKLING)
(TELEGRAPH WIRE BEEPING RHYTHMICALLY)
(CHEERING)
Congratulations there, boss, there.
It was a pleasure runnin' behind youse.
Of course the view got monotonous.
You are the most amazing, the most exalted,
the most preeminent, the most top-drawer...
You won!
(LAUGHS) (GROWLS)
Hmm.
I don't know. You think maybe Steele's losing his edge?
Yeah, looks like just about any dog could outrun him.
(GROWLING)
ROSY: Balto!
What a crazy thing to do just to show off to a pretty girl.
I'm sure Jenna would love to have you on her team.
Hey! Rosy! Stay away from him! Dad!
DAD: He might bite you, honey. He's part wolf.
Oh, now you've hurt his feelings.
(CHUCKLING) Come on now.
Congratulations and felicitations, Steele.
(GASPS) Oooh. STEELE: Ladies.
(SHIVERING AND PANTING)
Hi there, Jenna. Enjoy the race? Yeah.
Almost as much as you did.
STEELE: Thanks.
Jenna, let's go celebrate. I know where all the bones are buried.
I don't know, Steele. Suddenly I've lost my appetite.
Ohh.
Well, maybe your taste runs more toward... Wolf.
Jenna! Come on, girl. We're going back home.
Sorry, Steele. My girl is calling me.
On the other hand,
my girl is away at boarding school.
(STEELE GROWLS AND BURPS)
Whoo... Ohh! Ohh.
Uh...
Eh... uh... mmm.
Nothing. ROSY: Jenna!
Huh?
ROSY: Jenna!
(PANTING)
Ooh.
(CHUCKLES) Uh...
Jenna, I, uh... (CHUCKLES)
Jenna!
Jen! Come on!
(GASPS)
(SNIFFS)
DAD: Jenna! Come here, girl!
(SIGHS)
Balto.
There's some things I can't do for you.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm goose, not cupid.
Didn't make the team, Bingo?
Don't listen to him. Don't look at him. Live a long life.
My name's Balto.
But you can call him "idiot. "
I'm sorry. Balto. Balto the half-breed.
(DOGS LAUGHING, HOOTING)
Hey, old goose, you a half-breed too, huh?
Part turkey? Waa-hah-hah!
Good wordplay there, boss.
You are the wittiest, the quickest. Yeah.
You are the drollest, the cleverest,
the sharpest, you are the most hilarious...
You crack me up! (LAUGHING)
Ah-ha-ha-haaa! Whoopee!
Steele. Just leave him out of this.
(HOOTING CONTINUES)
Oh, Balto, I've got a message for your mother.
(HOWLING)
(LAUGHING)
(ALL HOWLING)
(ALL LAUGHING) NIKKI: Hi, Mom!
Hey, Balto, translate this for me will you...
(HOWLS)
STAR: What's wolf for "go chase your tail"?
Balto, stop! Whoa!
(GROWLING)
(HOWLING CONTINUES)
Uh-oh. (GROWLING CONTINUES)
Get him.
(ALL BARKING)
Get out of here, wolf-dog. You better get back to your pack!
Maybe it's the unrelenting fear talking,
but I'm seeing wisdom in this advice.
Maybe we go now, huh? Now!
(LAUGHING)
I'm thinking Balto's friend's got his feathers ruffled!
STAR: Goose! Ha! I get it! (LAUGHING)
(GRUNTS) (LAUGHING CONTINUES)
Half-wolf in the side pocket there.
(LAUGHING)
That was the most dead-center, the most on-target,
the most down-the-middle...
You hit him!
(LAUGHING) (GROWLS)
(SIGHS AND GULPS)
(SINISTER CHUCKLING)
That son of a...
He is the most malicious, the most disgusting, the most obnoxious,
the most revolting, the most repulsive...
He's no lap dog.
(CHUCKLES AND GASPS)
(GIGGLES)
Aah! Ooh.
(WHIMPERS)
(SNIFFS)
(HOWLING)
Hmm.
Oy.
BORIS: Not a dog, not a wolf.
All he knows is what he is not.
If only he could see what he is.
Oy. Oy.
Soup!
(BORIS GROANS)
(SQUEAKING)
Squeak. Squeak. Squeak. Squeak.
(THUD) (SQUEAKING STOPS)
Hey!
(BOTH SIGH)
(HONKING)
Homesick, Boris?
You ever think about going back?
Don't fret, Fido.
I'm sticking here until I'm sure
you can stand on own four feet. Hmm?
You're taking care of me?
Don't thank me.
I smell... (SNIFFS)
Herring.
The herring are flying south, too.
Say, must be Muk and Luk.
Ohh. Good news.
MUK: Uncle Boris!
Oh, no!
How sweet. "Uncle Boris. "
No hugging, no licking!
(PANTING) Uncle Boris!
Aaaah!
Aaah. Ooh!
Whew.
Oh, no. Mmm!
MUK: He says he's glad to see you.
(SPUTTERING)
We love you, Uncle Boris.
Aaah! Ooh-hoo-hoo!
(WHIMPERING)
(MUTTERING)
(LUK HUMS)
Hmm?
(CONTINUES MUTTERING)
(WHIMPERING)
What are you talking about? Of course he's glad to see us.
He loves us.
Don't you?
Oy. Okay, okay.
Hey, boychiks, uh, let's play a game.
Yes, please, Uncle Boris.
BORIS: Race you to the shore. One, two, three, go!
Yeah! (PANTING, LAUGHING)
They win. (SPLASHING)
MUK: Help! Help! We can't swim!
(SPUTTERING) Help! Help!
We're drowning! We're drowning! Save us, please!
Bears! Fellas!
Idiot balls of fluff!
Easy, Boris. You know how they are.
(BEARS WHIMPERING) Muk! Luk!
Relax! Hey, come on, you're okay. You're not drowning.
Huh?
BORIS: He has point, bears.
You are not drowning because,
if you will pause one moment you will observe, perhaps,
tide is out!
(WHIMPERS)
He said what?
Oh, the shame of the polar bear who fears the water.
No wonder we are shunned by our fellow bear. Woe is us!
It's what he said. Kind of pathetic, really.
(LUK WHIMPERS)
What, more whimpering?
Between you and Balto, it's like Dostoyevsky novel around here.
Lighten up.
And what is so interesting?
Jenna.
Is love.
So go make move.
When the angels' balalaikas strum the sweet song of love...
Mambo!
Nah. She's not my type.
And why not? This wolf business again?
What's wrong with being half and half, I'd like to know?
Sometimes I wish like crazy I was half eagle.
Why?
Better profile, for one thing. Hmm.
And no one eats you, for another.
(COUGHING)
(CHILDREN COUGHING)
(JENNA BARKING)
Jenna?
(BARKING CONTINUES) Jenna!
Jenna! Hi, girl!
(BARKING)
(LAUGHING)
(COUGHING)
Rosy! Rosy, come on. You're gonna catch your death out here.
Okay, Dad.
Come on, honey. The doctor's waiting.
(CONTINUES COUGHING)
(CHILDREN COUGHING)
(ROSY COUGHING)
Jenna?
(CLEARS THROAT AND LOWERS VOICE) Uh, Jenna.
Balto. Hi.
Hi.
Look, uh...
Just a shot in the dark, but I was wondering if, uh,
I don't know, maybe you'd like to go
chase a few sticks by moonlight.
(CHUCKLES AND SIGHS)
(SNIFFS)
Jenna?
Rosy's in there.
In a hospital? Why?
She feels warm. (COUGHING)
She has a terrible cough.
Balto, what's wrong with her?
Uh, I'm not sure, but I know how to find out.
Come on.
I have the keys to the city.
After you.
Balto. (CHUCKLES)
Big paws kind of run in my family.
At least, uh, one side of my family.
Stay close. (SQUEAKING)
(NERVOUS CHUCKLE) No problem there.
It's so gloomy down here.
Not that I'm scared or anything.
(GASPS) Gloomy?
You kiddin'? It's the most beautiful spot in the world.
Dogs travel for years just to be right here.
Here? I can't see why.
That's 'cause you're looking at the bowl half empty.
See this? It's the polar ice caps.
Balto, those are broken bottles.
And they're not half empty, they're all empty.
The sun... Uh, Balto...
And to the north...
(GASPS)
JENNA: The northern lights.
Ohh. (SIGHS)
Oh, Balto, you're right.
It's beautiful.
Yeah.
Beautiful.
(FOOTSTEPS)
DOCTOR: Good night, Rosy. ROSY: I'm so cold.
I have another blanket for you right here.
You stay warm and get some rest.
(ROSY COUGHING)
Doctor, how is she?
Exhausted from coughing. Her fever's getting worse.
(GASPS)
DOCTOR: Looks like diphtheria.
(SIGHS) She's the 18th case this week.
(SIGHS) And I'm out of antitoxin.
(JENNA TREMBLING)
Jenna. Jenna, I'm sorry.
I... Jenna, I... I didn't mean to upset you.
I shouldn't have taken you down there.
No, I'm glad you did.
(CRASHING)
Steele.
(CLEARS THROAT) Well, well.
What's wrong with this picture?
Jenna, join me for dinner.
You start at one end, I'll start at the other.
When we get to the middle, well... (CHUCKLES)
You tell me.
All right, Steele. No, Balto.
(BARKS WEAKLY)
(JENNA GIGGLES) (STEELE CHUCKLING)
JENNA: Gee, Steele... (FIRE ROARING)
I have to admit, your offer is very tempting.
It is? (CHUCKLING)
But these days I prefer my meat...
Cooked.
(SNIFFING)
(HOWLING)
Come on, let's go!
(GRUNTING)
MAN: What's all the noise?
I think it's over here.
Jenna, come on.
(GROWLS)
(GASPS)
Looks like Balto's found his way into your meat locker.
It's a good thing Steele was here.
Good boy, Steele. You've earned these.
Besides, I can't do anything with 'em
after that wild animal's touched 'em.
Go on, get out of here, you thief! Come on, Jenna, let's go home.
(PANTING)
(TELEGRAPH WIRE BEEPING)
MAN: "Anchorage. Stop.
"Repeat, urgent request.
"More diphtheria antitoxin. Stop.
"Nome in grave danger. Stop.
"Please help. Stop. "
(BELL RINGS)
NOME TELEGRAPH OPERATOR: "Nome. Pack ice closing in.
"Cannot ship antitoxin by sea.
"Will try by air.
"Nome. Storm at airport.
"Planes grounded until storm clears.
"Many regrets.
"From Juneau, office of the governor,
"we are shipping antitoxin by rail. Stop.
"Train line ends at town of Nenana. Stop.
"Select fastest dogs for sled team
"to carry antitoxin from Nenana to Nome. Stop.
"God willing, train will make it through. Stop. "
MAN: To select the fastest dogs
for the sled team to fetch the antitoxin,
the race will run the length of front street...
(PANTING WILDLY)
To the shores of Snake River... Mmm-hmm.
Then east to the gold dredge... Mmm-hmm.
DIXIE: Just look at him.
Past the telegraph office... He's gonna save the entire town.
Then return here to the finish line. He's positively... Magnesium!
It's not exactly a one-dog show, Dixie.
They're racing to see who's going to be on the dog sled team.
What's with you, Jenna? Steele's a genuine hero.
But do you give him a sniff?
That's because Jenna is running with Balto.
(GASPS)
She was seen in the boiler room the other night with Balto.
And they went in together and they left together.
And I heard it all from a very reliable source.
And don't bother to deny it.
Well, then I won't.
(GASPS) I'm speechless.
All mushers, get your dogs ready!
The race is about to begin! Wait! Balto!
Racing is a spectator sport.
It requires very little preparation.
(GASPS AND HONKS) Whew!
(GRUNTS) You sit, you arrange refreshments.
You like potato chip?
BALTO: I'm not watching the race, I'm running it.
(SPUTTERS) You said what?
(BORIS COUGHING)
Hey, look, I wanna help Rosy get better.
I can get that medicine through.
First... First...
First of all, get it through your head that
they wouldn't put you in a sled team
even if you did win, which won't happen,
and if it did, it wouldn't matter.
Boris...
Did you ever think maybe you're the reason
the other geese fly south?
If only your feet were as fast as your mouth. (WHISTLE BLOWS)
Hey! MAN: Dogs to the line!
They're starting.
Wish me luck. Luck?
I don't wish you luck. I wish you sense!
(PEOPLE CHEERING)
Good luck, kiddo.
What, Balto? What are you, nuts? Whoa!
Steele catches you out here, he's gonna turn you into kibble!
Or just let the half-dog run.
It will be fun making him eat our snow. MAN: Get set!
(GUNSHOT) (DOGS BARKING)
(GASPS) Balto?
What does he think he's doing?
(PANTING AND GRUNTING)
(GROWLS)
Ohh, Balto, come on, come on!
Balto, go!
(BARKING CONTINUES)
Ohhh!
(SINISTER LAUGHING)
Hey! That's a foul!
Where's the referee? Is he blind?
Ohhh.
BORIS: Go, Balto, go! Jump, jump, jump!
Hey! That's my boy! (LAUGHING)
Go, Balto!
(GRUNTING)
BORIS: Wait, wait, wait. (DOGS BARKING, YELPING)
Balto, where are you going?
That's the long way. Balto, get back in the race!
(YELPING CONTINUES)
Ohh!
Huh?
Sorry!
Who's eating whose snow now, mutt?
(CHEERING)
Time! What?
Ho-ho-ho!
Did I teach him well? I could kiss that crazy pooch.
Okay, Nikki, Kaltag, Star, move it. We're strapping up.
Hey, now, just a second there, Steele.
I was the fastest dog.
You were the fastest... What?
Do you honestly think any musher
would ever put you on his team?
You're even more mixed-up than I thought.
Steele!
It doesn't matter who's on the team
as long as the medicine gets through.
Stop being such a glory hound.
You're a hundred percent right, Jenna. I... I...
I wasn't thinking about those children.
The important thing here is to get the medicine through,
and that's just what I'm gonna do.
And when I come back, I'm gonna fold you five ways
and leave you for a cat toy.
MAN: Good dog, Steele. (BARKS)
Good boy! Now, let's take a look at our winner here.
Huh? (GROWLS)
Let's take a look at our winner.
Aaah! (GROWLS)
MAN: Ah, we can't trust this one.
He's part wolf. You see those teeth?
He might turn on me.
Nikki, Kaltag, Star! Let's go!
Hmph. (CHUCKLES)
Balto, I'm sorry... Better not talk to me, Jenna.
I might turn on you.
Balto, wait. Balto!
(MATCH STRIKES)
Yep.
As long as there's hope for those kids, I'll keep this lit.
It'll guide the team back.
(BARKING, PANTING)
Easy, easy. Back, Nikki, back.
(PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY)
MAN: The sooner they leave, the sooner they're back.
MUSHER: Stretch out, now. Stretch out, Star. Star.
Steele! Hyah! Giddap! Hyah!
Giddap!
(CHEERING AND WHISTLING)
(DOGS BARKING)
(PANTING)
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
MUSHER: Easy, easy with that.
(GRUNTING AND PANTING)
All right, now make sure you lash her down tight.
Giddap, Steele! Giddap!
Mush!
Take care now, y'hear?
MAN: Good luck!
Go on, boys, go on! Move along, move along!
(DOGS STRAINING AND GRUNTING)
(GRUNTING) Come on.
(PANTING AND GRUNTING CONTINUES)
Steele!
Maybe we should go back! We're lost!
I am not lost!
Lost? Heh-heh. Did I say lost?
No, you didn't let me finish. See, what I wanted to say was...
I was gonna... Ahh! This way!
(TELEGRAPH WIRE BEEPING)
(BARKING IN MORSE CODE)
(GRUNTS AND CONTINUES BARKING)
(BARKING CONTINUES)
It's terrible, my friends. Just terrible.
Steele and his team
are lost.
No! What do you mean?
Steele! How come?
DOG: When?
They've missed their second checkpoint.
DIXIE: I knew it. 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.
(SHIVERING AND MOANING)
DAD: Please, Doctor, it's the only medicine we've got.
DOCTOR: Okay.
(CONTINUES SHIVERING)
Jenna?
(SIGHS)
(FAINT HAMMERING)
(HAMMERING CONTINUES)
(GRUNTS)
(GASPS)
Rosy.
Balto, please. Don't go crazy on me now.
(GROANS) This is foolishness.
You will die like a dog! Oh, uh, no offense.
Whoa!
(WHIMPERS)
BORIS: You will be frozen stiff by morning!
(GASPS AND SPUTTERS)
When you are big frozen-stiff statue named Balto,
don't come running to me!
(WHIMPERING) Whoa! Hoo-hoo!
MUK: He says... BORIS: "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!
(BEARS LAUGHING)
MUK: Yes! Yes! Count us in!
(LUK HUMMING) Bears! Dogs!
(MUFFLED) Balto! Balto!
(MUFFLED YELLING)
No brains at all! Might as well be talking to humans.
(SHIVERING)
(COUGHS)
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...
(GIGGLES) Is like holiday in old country.
BORIS: Hmph!
MUK: Oh! Great! We're goin' on holiday!
(COUGHS AND WHEEZES)
(SIGHS)
(SNIFFLING)
(GASPS AND SNIFFS)
Balto.
BORIS: Good, Balto!
You took on the roughest, toughest, meanest tree
in the forest and you won.
BALTO: I'm marking the trail. Huh?
He's marking our trail. He's very clever.
BORIS: And here I've been dropping bread crumbs.
MUK: I spy with my little eye,
something beginning with "S".
(VOICE ECHOING)
(MOOSE LOWING)
(SNIFFING) Steele.
(SNIFFING)
Ohh. BORIS: Hey.
Bears!
Come on.
Steele and his team passed this way.
Boy, is he lost.
(PANTING)
(MUSHER SHOUTING)
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...
(PANTING)
It's... This way! Come on!
Waa-aaah!
(DOGS BARKING)
Steele!
MUSHER: Whoa! Whoa, Steele!
(YELPING)
(GRUNTING AND GROANING)
(BARKING AND YELPING CONTINUES)
(GROANING AND YELPING)
Aaaah!
(GROANING)
(COUGHING AND SPUTTERING)
Ohh! I hit my head on somethin'.
Yeah. My head.
Looks like he's hurt bad, Steele.
(STAMMERING) What are we gonna do now, Steele?
(SHIVERING AND PANTING)
(WIND HOWLING AND WHISTLING)
(CHITTERING)
(CHUCKLING) MUK: Whoo! Yes!
(LUK WHIMPERING) Ha, ha! Whoo!
Shh... Aah! (GRUNTS)
Brilliant! Right on the beak! What a bull's-eye!
(HUMMING)
BORIS: That did it! Who did that? Ooh.
(WHIMPERS)
(STAMMERING) It was him.
(LUK WHIMPERS)
(FAINT GROWLING)
(GASPS)
Guys, I think... (GASPS)
(GROWLING)
I think we should keep moving.
Is that your answer to all problems? Motion?
(BACK CRACKS)
(HONKING)
(CHATTERING)
(PANTING) Luk!
Muk! Come on! Let's get going.
"Come on, boys. Let's go, boys. Faster, boys. "
Easy to say for a guy with four legs!
Okay, that's it. (SPUTTERING)
Is time for goose to kick a little bear butt.
(TEETH CHATTERING)
Aha! Finally!
Your old Uncle Boris is making an impression!
Now what?
(GROWLING)
(GULP)
(GROWLS)
(GASPS)
Aaaah!
(GRUNTING)
(GROANS)
(ROARING)
Help!
(ROARS) (BALTO GRUNTING)
Aaaah! (GRUNTS)
(GROANS)
JENNA: Aaaaah!
(ROARING)
(JENNA GROANING)
Jenna?
(GROANING)
(JENNA GROWLING)
(LUK WHIMPERS)
Aaah!
JENNA: Ohh!
(ROARING)
(SCREAMING)
(GROANING)
(ROARING)
Balto!
(ROARING CONTINUES)
(ICE CRACKING)
(PANTING)
(ROARING CONTINUES)
Balto! Balto!
Aah-aaah!
Balto!
No!
BORIS: No!
MUK: Geronimo!
(LUK HUMMING CAVALRY CHARGE)
Luk! Muk!
They cannot swim!
What? Polar bears who can't swim?
(BLUBBERING)
(PANTING) He's drowning!
No!
Well?
Yaa-oww! I don't see them.
Ohh! Where are they?
(RUMBLING)
(GASPS)
Balto! Muk! Luk!
(LAUGHING)
Balto! Muk!
(LAUGHING) Cold!
(GRUNTS) Aah! Haah! Haah!
Aaaah!
(GRUNTING)
Come to life. Come to life.
Breathe! Come on!
Is he gonna be okay? Is he gonna be okay?
'Cause he's not breathing. He doesn't look very well.
Stop hitting him, Uncle Boris! Stop hitting him!
(MUK MUTTERING)
Balto, I was so scared I got peoplebumps.
(COUGHING)
Boris... (COUGHS)
I know you think this trip is crazy, but...
(SIGHS AND SHIVERS) I'm glad you came.
Who else should you bring on a wild goose chase
but a goose, hmm? (CHUCKLES)
Are you okay, Jen... Are you okay?
(SIGHS) 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. (SHIVERING)
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.
(WHIMPERING) (SPUTTERING, COUGHING)
I hate bears!
You two guys ought to learn how to swim someday.
You'd be very good at it.
(WHIMPERING)
Yes, well, of course we were!
We were in the water, we were moving,
we got wet, didn't we? We...
Luk! We were swimming!
(CHIRPING)
(LAUGHING)
(GROANS)
Ohh! Clumsy.
No, you're not. You're hurt.
I'm fine.
Oww! (PANTING)
Maybe I'm not so fine.
You should all go ahead without me.
BALTO: Jenna...
No. No, 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.
(LAUGHING) You can make sure of that, Boris.
You're gonna lead them home. Oy!
Just follow my marks.
You're going on alone?
Won't be the first time.
Here. Afraid it won't keep you very warm.
Yeah, it will.
(LUK CRYING)
Well, of course Balto will come back.
He's Balto, isn't he?
(WAILING)
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.
Ehh... BORIS: Right!
You two balls of fluff! Let's move!
Hey! Hah, two, three, four!
(TELEGRAPH WIRE BEEPING)
Hah, two, three, four! TELEGRAPH OPERATOR: "Nome. Stop.
"Cannot send more antitoxin. Stop.
"Weather too severe. Stop.
"Lost sled team only hope. Stop.
"Our prayers are with them.
"Anchorage. Stop. "
(SNIFFS)
(GRUNTING)
(SNIFFING)
Steele.
Ohh!
Ohh! Ohh!
Balto!
Is that Balto? Balto, how did you find us?
Is anyone hurt?
Everyone is fine.
Yeah, but our musher hit his head and he didn't get up.
KALTAG: And he's not movin'.
All right, follow me. I can lead you home.
We don't need your help!
(STAMMERING) Maybe we should listen to him.
(SNARLS) (GASPS)
KALTAG: Well, how would youse get us home?
BALTO: Well, I... I marked the trail, like this.
STAR: Oh! Yeah! KALTAG: 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.
(GASPS) NIKKI: Whoa!
Touch that box and I'll tear you apart.
Two bones says Steele takes him. You're on.
(DOGS MURMURING)
Steele, I'm not leaving without that medicine.
DOGS: Whoa! Who do you think you are?
Hey, this is gonna be good.
Since... since when do you need a pedigree to help someone?
(BARKS, GROWLING)
Steele.
Let me help you.
NIKKI: Look at his eyes! Look at his eyes!
(CHUCKLING)
(GROWLING CONTINUES)
(GROANS)
(DOGS CHATTER EXCITEDLY) KALTAG: Ohh!
He'll feel that tomorrow.
I think he is feeling it now.
Ouch!
(GRUNTS)
I don't want to fight.
(GROWLING QUIETLY)
(GRUNTING)
DOGS: Whoa!
That can't be legal! Yeah!
(PANTING HEAVILY)
(GRUNTING)
(SNARLS)
(BOTTLES RATTLING)
Hey, that stuff is fragile, there!
What's with Steele? All Balto wants to do is help.
Whoa!
(SCREAMS AND GROANS)
(SIGHS)
(PANTING HEAVILY)
(LAUGHING)
(GASPS) Look.
Huh?
(SNARLS)
Aaah!
(GRUNTS)
(GROANING)
(PANTING)
(MUSHER GROANING) Ohh, good boy.
Ahh.
(PANTING)
(GROANING)
(DOGS BARKING) Mush!
Go ahead, wolf-dog! You'll never get home!
I'll make sure of that.
(PANTING) I'll show 'em.
Why not this way? How about over here?
Oops! Wrong way! (SINISTER CHUCKLING)
(GASPS) Oh, no.
STAR: Which way, Balto, which way? Which way?
Uh, this way.
(DOGS BARK)
(DOGS PANTING HEAVILY) Huh?
(GRUNTING, YELPING)
Balto, 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!
STAR: Whoa-ohh!
Balto, slow down! Wait... Uhh!
KALTAG: Hey! Hey! Goin' too fast!
(STAR STAMMERING)
(YELPING, HOWLING)
NIKKI: Look out!
(GASPS)
STAR: All right!
Good catch, Balto!
(RUMBLING)
DOGS: Whoa!
Aaaah!
I don't get it. How could Balto
hope to find Steele and his team?
They were off the trail!
Well, he's... He's tracking them.
That mutt?
Tracking a championship team in a blizzard?
(ALL LAUGHING)
(DOOR OPENS) (ALL GASP)
Balto?
DOG 1: Steele! DIXIE: Steele!
DOG 2: You're alive!
DOG 1: You're back!
Where ya been? Are ya okay?
(SNARLS)
(STAMMERING) Steele, where are the others?
DOG 3: What happened to you? (PANTING) Well,
one by one, they fell,
frozen, barely alive. (SHIVERS)
(ALL GASP)
I pulled four onto the sled.
(PANTING)
Three more on my back!
DOG 4: Oh, what a hero.
And, uh, I walked...
And I walked,
but it was just... It was too late.
Ohh. They were...
What about the medicine? DOG 4: Yeah!
Well, uh, I... I went on,
dragging the medicine alone...
All alone...
And... And then suddenly...
(PANTING) That wolf-dog appeared.
Balto. He demanded I let him take the medicine.
You know, he just wanted so much to be a hero in your eyes.
And he grabbed the crate,
but he couldn't handle it.
He couldn't see the patch of ice,
the snow, the wind and...
And then the log and the cliff...
Well, he just didn't have a... (COUGHS) He just...
I'm sorry. (SOBBING)
And then... (SNIFFS)
(GASPS) My bandana.
He made me promise to take care of you, Jenna.
Ohh.
You're lying.
(DOGS GASPING, WHISPERING)
Steele's lying.
Balto's alive.
He's coming home.
DOG 2: What's eatin' her? Uh...
Well, you know, she needs a little time.
(SIGHS)
(GASPS)
(SNIFFS)
(LABORED BREATHING)
The sun. Ice caps.
Balto.
(GRUNTING)
Rosy.
(SNIFFLING)
(HOWLING)
Hmm?
BORIS: Let me tell you something, Balto.
A dog cannot make this journey alone.
But maybe a wolf can.
(HOWLING)
(CONTINUES HOWLING)
(BOTH HOWLING)
(DOGS SHIVERING)
(TEETH CHATTERING AND SHIVERING CONTINUES)
(HOWLING) ALL: Huh?
Oh, great! Things are not bad enough. Now we got wolves.
ALL: Wolves?
(WHINING)
Hey, over here! What is it?
What? What?
Balto?
And he's got the medicine!
NIKKI: Come on, Balto. Youse can make it.
(GRUNTING) Aaah!
That's the most amazing, the most fantastic... Yeah!
That is the most incredible... Yeah!
That's the most phenomenal... I... I never...
That's good! Ohh!
NIKKI: Hey, he has got the feet of a wolf there.
Come on. Come on, Balto. Keep tryin', baby.
Pull! Pull!
You got it! Just keep pullin'!
You're almost there.
Yeah! You got it! You're almost there!
Come on, Balto!
Come on, let's go!
(DOGS BARKING)
STAR: That's it, that's it! All right!
Yeah! All right! (LAUGHING) You did it!
Congratulations! That was great! I couldn't have done that!
(DOGS BARKING)
(DOGS PANTING AND MURMURING)
(SNIFFING)
BALTO: Hyah!
(ALL BARKING)
Yaaah!
(CRACKING)
(GASPING, YELLING) Come on! Mush!
(BARKING AND YELPING)
(GROANS)
(GRUNTING AND STRAINING)
(ALL BARKING)
Eeeh... Ahh-choo!
(SNEEZE ECHOING) KALTAG: Gesundheit.
(ECHOING CONTINUES)
(RUMBLING)
(GASPS)
(DOGS PANTING AND SHIVERING)
(WHINING)
(PANTING AND SHIVERING CONTINUE)
Huh?
BALTO: Hey. Look at this place.
(ALL GASPING, WHISPERING)
Heh!
Errr!
Heh-heh!
Ohhh!
(WATER DRIPS) Huh?
(WHISPERING CONTINUES)
Shh!
Yeh... ehh...
Yaaah...
(LOUD THUMP)
(CRACKING)
(LOUD CRASH)
(ALL GASP)
Mush!
(GASPS)
Yaah!
(GRUNTS)
(WHISPERING)
(COUGHING)
(COUGHING CONTINUES)
Oh, dear.
Come back to bed.
(COUGHING CONTINUES)
Here, drink this.
Oh.
Thanks.
(SIGHS)
(MOANING)
(LUK WHIMPERING AND CRYING)
MUK: Balto.
(SNIFFLING)
(SOBBING) Balto.
(WHIMPERING)
(HOWLING IN DISTANCE)
Balto.
(GRUNTS)
Balto's back!
(PANTING)
Jenna.
(HOWLING)
(LABORED BREATHING)
(BALTO HOWLING)
(BARKING)
Hmm?
(GASPS) The team!
MOTHER: They made it!
(GRUNTS)
(BARKING)
STEELE: (CHEWING) Of course, as you know, I just...
I swam and I swam.
It was freezing cold. And then...
Then finally, I just said, "Steele,
"you're just gonna have to gnaw your way to the surface. "
(BALTO HOWLING) So I...
(DOOR OPENS) What?
It's Balto. With the medicine!
(ALL GASP) (CHUCKLES)
Ohh.
Steele, you are positively...
Disposable!
(GRUNTS) Huh?
(ALL GROWLING)
Okay, okay. I can explain.
Tell me about it. STEELE: See...
You guys weren't there, so you don't...
Wait a minute, guys. Wait just a second.
Please? DOG: Get lost.
(PEOPLE CHEERING)
(BARKING)
(LAUGHING)
Steady, there. Steady. Easy, now. That's had a long journey.
MAN: How is he? MAN 2: He's gonna be okay.
(CHILDREN COUGHING)
WOMAN: Good dog, Balto.
Dear, dear Balto. Hey!
WOMAN: Good boy!
Aaaah! Not dog! Not wolf!
You're a hero! (LAUGHS)
(KISSES)
MUK: Balto!
(SQUAWKS AND GRUNTS)
(GIGGLING)
(PEOPLE LAUGHING)
Come on, boy.
There's someone who wants to see you.
MAN: Thank you! Thank you!
(APPLAUSE AND CHEERING)
Mommy?
Rosy, darling. Ohh.
I fell asleep.
(CHUCKLING) Rosy.
WOMAN: It's such a relief.
Balto.
I'd be lost without you.
(LAUGHS) (JENNA CLEARS THROAT)
Jenna.
(PANTING)
(JENNA BARKING)
(APPLAUSE AND CHEERING)
STAR: Way to go, Balto!
He has the most endurance, the most fidelity, the most intelligence!
They should build a statue of him! Ohh!
You said it!
I did?
(APPLAUSE AND CHEERING CONTINUE)
(HOWLING)
This is it, Grandma. Blaze found it.
(SIGHS) Oh. Yes.
(BLAZE BARKS)
GRANDMA: What does it say?
"Dedicated to the... " Indomable?
Indomitable.
"Indomitable spirit of the sled dogs... "
"That relayed antitoxin
"600 miles from Nenana to the relief of stricken Nome...
"In the winter of 1925."
GIRL: "Endurance, fidelity, intelligence. "
Balto really did do all of that, didn't he, Grandma?
Oh, yes, sweetheart, he really did.
And today they run the Iditarod dog race
over the very path he and the others took.
GIRL: Can Blaze do that too, Grandma?
GRANDMA: Maybe.
With practice.
(BLAZE BARKS)
A lot of practice.
(BARKS)
Come on, Blaze. Come on! Mush!
(BARKING CONTINUES)
Thank you, Balto.
I would've been lost without you.
GIRL: Grandma Rosy!
Grandma Rosy, come on!