The Call of the Wild (1976 film)

The Call of the Wild
Directed by	Jerry Jameson
Produced by	Charles W. Fries Tony Ganz Malcolm Stuart
Screenplay by	James Dickey
Based on	The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Starring	John Beck Billy Green Bush Dennis Burkley
Music by	Peter Matz
Cinematography	Matthew F. Leonetti
Edited by	Tom Stevens
Production company	Charles Fries Productions
Distributed by	Hallmark NBC
Release dates	May 22, 1976 (U.S.)
Running time	100 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

The Call of the Wild is a 1976 American television film based on Jack London's 1903 novel The Call of the Wild. The film, starring John Beck, was directed by Jerry Jameson from a script by the poet and novelist James Dickey. One of several adaptations of London's novel, this version was produced following the success of the 1972 film Deliverance, an adaptation of Dickey's novel of the same title. The author's son, Christopher Dickey, wrote in his 1998 memoir, Summer of Deliverance, that "[t]he Hollywood concept [for the 1976 film] was James Dickey meets Jack London; sort of Deliverance in the Klondike."^[1]

References

1. Dickey, Christopher (1999) [1998]. Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son. New York: Simon & Schuster/Touchstone. p. 197. ISBN 0-684-85537-2. Retrieved October 7, 2012.

External links

• The Call of the Wild at the Internet Movie Database
• The Call of the Wild at AllMovie