A sled dog struggles for survival in the wilds of the Yukon.A sled dog struggles for survival in the wilds of the Yukon.A sled dog struggles for survival in the wilds of the Yukon.
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- 1 win & 8 nominations
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- TriviaUnlike the source novel, John Thornton has a back story. They wanted Thornton's experience to be similar to Buck's for this film adaptation to show both man and dog finding their strength after overcoming tragedy.
- GoofsThe message on the telegram that Perrault receives has a uniformity and cleanness that demonstrates that this was produced not on a typewriter, but by a modern laser printer. Also, the telegram's text uses a modern Courier font not present on typewriters of that period.
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[last lines]
John Thornton: [narrates] Some say that's the legend. Not so. You see, I knew him once, when he was just a dog at a men side. And even all this land is his, every summer, when he comes down to the valley, he remembers kind hands and old masters... before he went to his own... became his own master... before he heard the call.
- Crazy creditsThis is the first film released under the 20th Century Studios banner (previously known as 20th Century Fox).
Thus, there is a new 20th Century Studios logo, which is an updated version of the classic Fox logo.
- Alternate versionsPrior to re-shoots, Mercedes, Charles, and the remaining dog team die (off-screen) on the broken-up river; only Hal survives to return to Dawson and confront John Thornton in the Argonaut saloon. (Paraphrased: "I lost everything because of you: my dogs... my sister...") Despite successful test screenings, studio heads changed this to Hal saying, "My dogs ran off" -- indicating the team and (one assumes) Mercedes and Charles survived -- in an attempt to keep children from being upset.
- SoundtracksJohnny Todd
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There have been several movies "Call of the Wild" but this is the first time one has told the entire story in Jack London's book. The real main character is the big dog, Buck, and his transformation from house pet to sled dog to alpha male of his own hybrid Timberwolf pack.
This movie in its form could not have been made with real dogs. Instead they used state of the art motion capture to generate realistic animation for the animals. This is covered quite nicely in a series of "making of" extras on the movie disc.
Harrison Ford, almost 80 now, is very effective as the narrator and the old prospector that befriends Buck. This is a really good movie, at first the sight of an animated Buck threw me off but soon it made no difference, the story is so good.
I watched it at home on BluRay from my public library, my wife skipped, not her kind of movie.
This movie in its form could not have been made with real dogs. Instead they used state of the art motion capture to generate realistic animation for the animals. This is covered quite nicely in a series of "making of" extras on the movie disc.
Harrison Ford, almost 80 now, is very effective as the narrator and the old prospector that befriends Buck. This is a really good movie, at first the sight of an animated Buck threw me off but soon it made no difference, the story is so good.
I watched it at home on BluRay from my public library, my wife skipped, not her kind of movie.
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- Also known as
- Tiếng Gọi Nơi Hoang Dã
- Filming locations
- Yukon, Canada(Klondike Gold Rush)
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Box office
- Budget
- $135,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $62,342,368
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $24,791,624
- Feb 23, 2020
- Gross worldwide
- $111,166,669
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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