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• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not much to do with Jack London, but still entertaining, May 7, 2009

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Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Clark Gable in Jack London's Call Of The Wild (Region One USA DVD) (DVD)

Sadly this DVD of William Wellman's 1935 version of The Call of the Wild is only the cut (by some 14 minutes) wartime reissue version rather than the original. Any resemblance to anything written by Jack London is purely coincidental: it's set in the Yukon, and there's a dog called Buck in it who has to pull a thousand pound weight in one scene for a bet, but that's about it. But this Buck is a huge St Bernard and he's only a bit player in a gold rush romp tailored for Clark Gable - but then at the height of his popularity, audiences would probably have burned the theatres to the ground if he'd played second fiddle to a hound. More famous for Gable and co-star Loretta Young emerging from the snowed-in on-location shoot with an illegitimate child, it's an enjoyable enough yarn even in the abridged reissue cut that now seems to be the only version surviving, although it shamefully throws away Reginald Owen's excellent villain, who deserves a much better exit than he gets here.

A decent extras package includes an audio commentary by Darwin Porter; stills gallery, restoration comparison, reissue trailer, and trailers for The Tall Men and Soldier of Fortune.

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars sort of a classic movie, July 4, 2008

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Gene T. Blakely - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Clark Gable in Jack London's Call Of The Wild (Region One USA DVD) (DVD)

The DVD edition - to me - is very good. Course it is B&W - but one admires the quality of the photography. I wanted it more for my grandchildren than anything else. I want them to appreciate how good an old fashion movie can be without the modern inability to express ones' thoughts and actions without explicatives and being undressed.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Call of the Wild (1935) ... Gable/Young/Oakie ... William A. Wellman (Director) (2006)", September 7, 2011

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J. Lovins "Mr. Jim" (Missouri-USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Clark Gable in Jack London's Call Of The Wild (Region One USA DVD) (DVD)

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation presents "CALL OF THE WILD" (1935) (95 min/B&W) -- Starring: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie, Reginald Owen, Frank Conroy, Katherine DeMille, Sidney Toler, James Burke, Charles Stevens

Directed by William A. Wellman

The plot and story line has Clark Gable and Jack Oakie headed for gold in them thar hills. Gable purchases a sled dog Buck who is part wolf and saves his life once or twice during the film. Loretta Young is searching for her husband Frank Conroy who leaves her to search for another clear vein of gold. A closeness develops between Gable and Young during the journey, when Gable realizes he must help find her husband and makes things right.

The interaction between Gable, Young and Oakie has a moral and lifting ingredient not found in todays films.

Once again Gable steals the scenes as part hero, devil may care and honorable character that he is.

BIOS:
1. . William A. Wellman [Director]
Date of Birth: 29 February 1896 - Brookline, Massachusetts
Date of Death: 9 December 1975 - Los Angeles, California

2. Clark Gable
Date of birth: 1 February 1901 - Cadiz, Ohio,
Date of death: 16 November 1960 - Los Angeles, California

3. Loretta Young (aka: Gretchen Young)
Date of birth: 6 January 1913 - Salt Lake City, Utah
Date of death: 12 August 2000 - Los Angeles, California

5. Jack Oakie (aka: Lewis Delaney Offield)
Date of birth: 12 November 1903 - Sedalia, Missouri
Date of death: 23 January 1978 - Los Angeles, California

4. Jack London (aka: John Griffith Chaney) (Author)
Date of birth: 12 January 1876 - San Francisco, California,
Date of death: 22 November 1916 - Glen Ellen, California

* Special footnote: -- actor Clark Gable was signed in 1930 by MGM's Irving Thalberg. Joan Crawford asked for him as co-star in "Dance, Fools, Dance" (1931) and the public loved him manhandling Norma Shearer in "A Free Soul" (1931) the same year. "The Painted Desert" (1931). His unshaven lovemaking with bra-less Jean Harlow in "Red Dust" (1932) made him MGM's most important star --- "Dancing Lady" (1933) Gable refused an assignment and the studio punished him by loaning him out to (at the time) low-rent Columbia Pictures, which put him in Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night" (1934), which won him an Oscar,

Gable was quoted "The only reason they come to see me is that I know life is great - and they know I know it, I'm no actor and I never have been, what people see on the screen is me." --- it was fellow friend and actor Spencer Tracy who dubbed Gable as "The King".

** Also available in this collection -- Clark Gable Collection (Call of the Wild / Soldier of Fortune / The Tall Men)

Mr. Jim's Ratings:
Quality of Picture & Sound: 5 Stars
Performance: 5 Stars
Story & Screenplay: 5 Stars
Overall: 5 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]

Total Time: 95 min on DVD ~ Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation ~ (August 15, 2006)