The four find the mine and Shorty leaves to file the claim, but the villainous Mr. Accompanying them is Buck (Buck) a ferocious but loyal St. There they admit that Shorty stole a peek at her map in some mail he opened, and that the three of them could find the mine and become rich. They rescue Claire Blake (Loretta Young) when her husband appears to have perished in the harsh cold, and take her back to Skagway. Yukon miner Jack Thornton (Clark Gable) gambles away a fortune but then sets out with pal Shorty Houlihan (Jack Oakie) in search of a gold mine on a map made from a bad memory. The movie barely has a passing resemblance to the famous Jack London book we all had to read in high school, but the substitute story is a good one, handled by Wellman with a good sense of adventure. On a major career roll, Clark Gable braved the snows of rural Washington State for director William Wellman and delivered not only a movie but a famous off-screen romance with co-star Loretta Young. This hearty Gold Rush film is probably the second best such picture after Chaplin's The Gold Rush of ten years earlier. Written by Gene Fowler, Leonard Praskins from the novel (there is a dog) by Jack London Starring Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie, Reginald Owen, Frank Conroy
They're good enough to recommend to an audience wider than just completist DVD collectors.ġ935 / 95 81 min. None of the films is a classic per se but all three are very entertaining and pair him with a trio of feisty costars: Loretta Young, Susan Hayward and Jane Russell.
Since Gable was of course an MGM contractee during the golden 30s, what we get are one loan-out to Darryl Zanuck when 20th Fox was just getting rolling, and two CinemaScope productions made right after MGM unloaded almost all of its contract talent. Fox's new Clark Gable set isn't three collected titles as much as it is whatever was lying around the vault with The King of Hollywood's name on it. The Call of the Wild, Soldier of Fortune, The Tall Menīoxed collections are flying onto the market awfully fast these days. The Call of the Wild, Soldier of Fortune & The Tall Men
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