Category: 32
All Genres: Adventure
Release Year: 1997
Country: Canada
Runtime: 91
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Peter Svatek
Sound: Dolby
Taglines:This little piggy laughed all the way home!
Writing by: Jack London - novel "Call of the Wild"
Graham Ludlow - writer
Produced by: Julie Allan - producer
John Buchanan - executive producer
Jeff Geoffray - executive producer
Marcel Giroux - line producer
Gary Howsam - executive producer
Walter Josten - executive producer
Pieter Kroonenburg - producer
John McCunn - associate producer
Cast: Rutger Hauer - John Thornton
Bronwen Booth - Mercedes (as Bronwên Booth)
Charles Edwin Powell - Hal (as Charles Powell)
Burke Lawrence - Charles
Luc Morrissette - M. Perrault
Robert Pierre Côté - Francoise
John Novak - Mr. Matthewson the Gambling Man
Richard Dreyfuss - Narrator (voice)
John Dunn-Hill - Thornton's Partner Hans
Jack Langedijk - Thornton's Partner Pete
Michael Shanks - Fellow Gambler #1
Music: Alan Reeves
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: Jack London's classic story from 1903 about Buck, a dog kidnapped from his home in California and taken...
Plot: Jack London's classic story from 1903 about Buck, a dog kidnapped from his home in California and taken to the Yukon where he is mistreated until a prospector discovers him and relates to his situation. Although the two are bonded, Buck yearns to run free with the wild dogs in the wilderness.
Movie Quotes: [referring to Buck, the Yukon Dog]
Narrator: And he knew that John Thornton was dead. It left a great void in him somewhat akin to hunger, but a void that ached and ached...and which food could not fill.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The UK Constuction crew in France are credited as the Crazy Dogs as that's how the locals described them
Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When Roxey jumps into the water, fully dressed, from the boat, her shoes disappear between shots.
Trivia: There are 8 entries in the trivia list - like these:
All Genres: Adventure
Release Year: 1997
Country: Canada
Runtime: 91
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Peter Svatek
Sound: Dolby
Taglines:
Writing by: Jack London - novel "Call of the Wild"
Graham Ludlow - writer
Produced by: Julie Allan - producer
John Buchanan - executive producer
Jeff Geoffray - executive producer
Marcel Giroux - line producer
Gary Howsam - executive producer
Walter Josten - executive producer
Pieter Kroonenburg - producer
John McCunn - associate producer
Cast: Rutger Hauer - John Thornton
Bronwen Booth - Mercedes (as Bronwên Booth)
Charles Edwin Powell - Hal (as Charles Powell)
Burke Lawrence - Charles
Luc Morrissette - M. Perrault
Robert Pierre Côté - Francoise
John Novak - Mr. Matthewson the Gambling Man
Richard Dreyfuss - Narrator (voice)
John Dunn-Hill - Thornton's Partner Hans
Jack Langedijk - Thornton's Partner Pete
Michael Shanks - Fellow Gambler #1
Music: Alan Reeves
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: Jack London's classic story from 1903 about Buck, a dog kidnapped from his home in California and taken...
Plot: Jack London's classic story from 1903 about Buck, a dog kidnapped from his home in California and taken to the Yukon where he is mistreated until a prospector discovers him and relates to his situation. Although the two are bonded, Buck yearns to run free with the wild dogs in the wilderness.
Movie Quotes: [referring to Buck, the Yukon Dog]
Narrator: And he knew that John Thornton was dead. It left a great void in him somewhat akin to hunger, but a void that ached and ached...and which food could not fill.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The UK Constuction crew in France are credited as the Crazy Dogs as that's how the locals described them
Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When Roxey jumps into the water, fully dressed, from the boat, her shoes disappear between shots.
Trivia: There are 8 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- Guido's wife, Dora, is played by Roberto Benigni's real-life wife, Nicoletta Braschi.
- The number on Benigni's prison camp uniform is the same number on Charles Chaplin's uniform in The Great Dictator (1940), the satire of Hitler and fascism.
- Roberto Benigni says the title comes from a quote by Leon Trotsky. In exile in Mexico, knowing he was about to be killed by Stalin's assassins, he saw his wife in the garden and wrote that, in spite of everything, "life is beautiful".
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