The Call of the Wild (1976)

Directed by

Jerry Jameson

Genre

action, adventure, drama, family, tv movie

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man travels to the Yukon during the gold rush and bonds with a dog named Buck. They face the harsh wilderness together.

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What happens

The Call of the Wild is a 1976 American television film based on Jack London's 1903 novel The Call of the Wild. The film, starring John Beck, was directed by Jerry Jameson from a script by poet and novelist James Dickey. One of several adaptations of London's novel, this version was produced following the success of the 1972 film Deliverance, an adaptation of Dickey's novel of the same title. The author's son, Christopher Dickey, wrote in his 1998 memoir, Summer of Deliverance, that "[t]he Hollywood concept [for the 1976 film] was James Dickey meets Jack London; sort of Deliverance in the Klondike." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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