The Call of the Wild (1976 film)
The Call of the Wild is a 1976 American television film based on Jack Londons 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 Londons novel, this version was produced following the success of the 1972 film Deliverance, an adaptation of Dickeys novel of the same title. The authors son, Christopher Dickey, wrote in his 1998 memoir, Summer of Deliverance, that the Hollywood concept for the 1976 film was James Dickey meets Jack London sort of Deliverance in the Klondike.
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