The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon
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Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon is a 1997 TV movie. The screenplay by Graham Ludlow
is based on the classic Jack London
novel The Call of the Wild
, published in 1903. Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss
and starring Rutger Hauer, this film premiered and was well received at Palm Springs International Film Festival
. "Filmed splendidly in Quebec
," critics hailed this adaptation as "the most faithful" to the novel.
Graham Ludlow
Graham Ludlow is a Canadian actor, executive, screenwriter and producer. Ludlow was born in England but grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. He graduated from Magee Secondary School....
is based on the classic Jack London
Jack London
John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...
novel The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events leads to his serving as a sled dog in the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush, in which sled dogs...
, published in 1903. Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss is an American actor best known for starring in a number of film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Stakeout, Always, What About...
and starring Rutger Hauer, this film premiered and was well received at Palm Springs International Film Festival
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Palm Springs International Film Festival is a film festival held in Palm Springs, California. It was started in 1989 and is held annually in January...
. "Filmed splendidly in Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
," critics hailed this adaptation as "the most faithful" to the novel.