And the dog itself (played by Jed) is a fine-looking, intelligent animal so good at displaying its fangs that I actually believed it could scare off a bear. As the boy, Ethan Hawke is properly callow at the beginning and properly matured at the end, although it's all he can do to carry off the final joyous reunion with the dog. The performances are authentic and understated, and Brandauer makes a convincing veteran prospector, part hard-bitten, part dreamer. The movie is magnificently photographed on location.

Fans of 'The Bear' will be pleased that its star, Bart, makes a guest appearance here.) 'White Fang' is, however, a superior entertainment on its own terms, a story of pluck and survival at a time when men poured into the Yukon dreaming of riches, and found mostly disease and death. (That project would be mostly about dogs, and require patience on the order of the 1989 film ' The Bear,' which took a year to film because each of the animal movements had to be separately photographed. White Fang Jack London Blurb, Incorporated, 0 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified This classic adventure novel by.

We are agreed then, that the movie makes no serious claim to be a version of the Jack London novel. Jack has good reason to stick with White Fang, who by the end of the film has saved him from being eaten by a bear and killed by thieving claim jumpers. The Disney version of course transmutes the adult into Jack the teenager, and ends with a joyous reunion of man and beast after the human decides not to go to California after all but heed the call of the wild. In the book the dog eventually becomes the property of a mining engineer, who takes it back to a sunny retirement in California. The London novel was intended as a comparison of dogs and men, in which most men came up short.

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