Call of the Wild (1935) on Netflix
Jack Thornton cannot win the stake he needs for the Alaska gold fields. He buys Buck, a part-wolf sled dog, and joins Shorty Hoolihan, who remembers a map to a gold strike.
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In Skagway in 1900, Jack Thornton comes back from the gold fields with money and loses most of it gambling. Shorty Hoolihan, newly out of jail for reading other people's mail, tells him of a letter he had opened: it carried a map to a rich strike that the prospector Martin Blake never staked, and it was addressed to Blake's son John. Caught, Shorty ate the map and rebuilt what it showed as well as he could. Jack pays $250 for Buck, a part-wolf sled dog, saving him from an Englishman named Smith, and the two men head for the Yukon with the map and a dog team. On the trail they pull Claire Blake away from a pack of wolves. She is John Blake's wife, and she will not go on without word of him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Call of the Wild (1935)
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- While making the film, Clark Gable and Loretta Young flirted heavily on set and, on the train back from location shooting, had sex in her sleeping compartment, an encounter Young later called "date rape".
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Loretta Young kept the pregnancy secret to avoid the abortion the studio would have ordered, gave birth to a daughter on November 6, 1935, and had the baby placed in an orphanage before "adopting" her more than a year and a half later.SPOILER
Loretta Young's daughter learned that Clark Gable was her father only in 1966, after his death; Gable met her just once, in 1950 at Young's house, and Young acknowledged the parentage only in a posthumous biography.
