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able seaman on a five-month trip to the Bering Sea, during which he begins to write. A brief stay at university proves frustrating as his stories are dismissed as "raw" despite London's defence of them as observed occurrences. He moves to the Yukon where he writes a story about a bar singer. Snowed in for months he writes Call of the Wild, which he sells to a publisher, who compares him to Rudyard Kipling, one of London's idols. The publisher introduces him to
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proves a scoop. However, he is arrested on charges of spying for Russia, and in a brutal prison witnesses the murder of his fellow inmates by the Japanese, who are portrayed as barbaric. Eventually, London is freed after the intervention of the White House. Back in the US, London attempts but fails
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in 1890, after an accident involving a female colleague at the factory where he works, the young London quits and borrows money to buy a boat in which to illegally harvest oysters. The boat is soon impounded by police, one of his partners killed, and he is left without means. London signs on as an
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Despite a promise not to leave Charmian again, London is given another foreign correspondent assignment, this time to Japan, where he is told of the start of the
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to sell articles attesting to his view that there is a coming threat from Japan.
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The film follows scenes from the life of the writer-adventurer Jack London (
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with Joseph H. Nadel as associate producer, from a
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Alfred Santell
Ernest Pascal
Charmian London
Samuel Bronston
Michael O'Shea
Susan Hayward
John W. Boyle
Lee Garmes
William H. Ziegler
Fredric Efrem Rich
Samuel Bronston Productions
United Artists
Samuel Bronston Productions
United Artists
Alfred Santell
Samuel Bronston
screenplay
Isaac Don Levine
Ernest Pascal
Charmian London
Michael O'Shea
Jack London
Susan Hayward
Osa Massen
Harry Davenport
Frank Craven
Virginia Mayo
Michael O'Shea
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