The Son of the Wolf is a 1922 American silent Western film directed by Norman Dawn and starring Edith Roberts, Wheeler Oakman and Sam Allen.

Scruff McHowl has spent his life struggling to strike gold in the frozen Yukon, but everything changes when he learns his father was not just a grizzled trapper but actually a wolf in a hat, making him next in line to lead the legendary Frostfang Pack.

Before he can take his place, he is forced to prove himself worthy through a series of trials, which include out-howling a barbershop quartet of opera-singing coyotes, herding 1,000 lemmings across a frozen lake without them forming a doomsday cult, and negotiating with the moose mafia while avoiding their signature headbutt-based diplomacy.

But before the wolves can exile him to a lifetime of selling overpriced snow globes to tourists, an even greater threat descends from the Northern Lights: Chook-Ra, the Eldritch Chicken, an ancient deity who claims dominion over all creatures of the Yukon.

With glowing eyes and an unsettlingly large wingspan, Chook-Ra presents a long-lost prophecy written in what appears to be incomprehensible chicken scratch, declaring that he, not Scruff, is the rightful ruler.