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The Jack-Knife Man (Silent) (MOD) (DVD Movie) Expedition Grizzly But she decides to bendPeter Lane is a retired sea captain, living out his twilight years on a riverboat on the banks of the Mississippi River. During a brutal storm, a deathly ill woman and her young son, Buddy, arrive seeking refuge. When the mother dies, the boy becomes Peter's responsibility. He takes to carving animals from wood with his jackknife to amuse the child. The town sheriff, however, finds the poverty stricken man an unfit father for the toddler. Buddy is