Tuesday, March 12, 2013

The Call of the Wild (1972)


A house dog is abducted and brought to the north as a sled dog.

Simplistic, but highly effective adventure movie, in which the dog is indeed the true hero.

Halliwell (no star): "Closer to the book than the previous versions, but curiously scrappy and unsatisfactory."

Maltin **1/2: "Lacklustre version of the Jack London adventure classic, produced by a multinational film combine and wasting the talents of a diverse cast. One redeeming quality: the striking Finnish scenery."

 

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