Product Details

• Actors: Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie
• Directors: William Wellman
• Format: NTSC, Black & White, Closed-captioned
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• Run Time: 81 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000M6D7SO
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #35,707 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Special Features: Commentary by Author Darwin Porter, Restoration Comparison, Photo Gallery, Original Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Gene T. Blakely - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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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.

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

By	Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

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.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars gable at his macho best, April 12, 2009

By	C. Chandler "baseball doctor" (Whitesboro, Texas USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.....Gable is in his element as the macho rugged outdoorsman and adventurer ...Loretta Young is captivating as the conflicted woman loved by two men ...the chemisty between Gable and Young came through the screen and was probably fueled by their real life affair while shooting the movie ...the ending had a Casablanca flair with the two lovers going separate ways because of commitment to principles and honor ...this is a five star gem and movie worth watching over and over.