In the film version of Call of the Wild, when Buck joins the sled dog team delivering the mail, we see instantly that Spitz, the lead dog, doesn't like Buck, and clearly there is going to be a ...

Buck kills Spitz. That’s not what happens in the movie.) I’m not sure who a faithful adaptation of The Call of the Wild would even be for in 2020. Instead, we get a pleasant movie about ...

Old meets new in “The Call of the Wild,” though ... a husky named Spitz. A series of episodes – and the occasional run-in with his inner wolf, which appears to Buck as a shadowy, red-eyed ...

Buck, an enormous domestic dog, is kidnapped from his home in California and sold to pull sleds in the Yukon. He adapts to his new surroundings, and listens to the call of the wild, which brings ...

and after a feral stand-off with original top dog Spitz, Buck steps up as team leader. A life in the wild is clearly his destiny, a fact signalled by Buck’s visions of a spectral grey wolf guiding him ...

“The Call of the Wild” is a fascinating movie ... In another example, the fight between Buck and Spitz, the pack leader, doesn’t end in death. Most of the violence in the movie happens ...

And the final sequences, depicting Buck’s inevitably succumbing to the call of the wild and bonding with a pack of timber wolves, are moving, even if the animals are CGI-created. Still ...

But the so-so “The Call of the Wild” can at least boast some literary cred. It’s based on Jack London’s 1903 novel about a Saint Bernard-Scotch collie mix, called Buck, who’s abducted ...