Daily BirthdaysJack London (1943)
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| Cast | Ernie S. Adams, Louise Beavers, Brooks Benedict, Sven Hugo Borg, Hobart Cavanaugh, Edmund Cobb, Dick Curtis, Harry Davenport, Roy Gordon, Jonathan Hale and Susan Hayward |
| Theatrical Release | November 30, 1942 |
| DVD Release | January 25, 2005 |
| Running Time | 90 minutes |
| MPAA Rating | NR (Not Rated) |
| UPC Code | 089218462695 |
| Buy this item | $7.98 at Amazon.com As of Sep 5 2:38 EDT (details) 1 DVD, Alpha Video, Usually ships in 24 hours, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC Languages: English (Original Language) Or 10 new from $0.75, 3 used from $6.73 |
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(1 reviews)| |  | Read "Martin Eden" instead. |  |
The movie begins with the launching of the warship "Jack London", then does a quicky on Jack's poverty, a few scenes of his life at sea, one scene of his education at Berkeley, a few scenes in the gold rush, a quicky of his relationship with Charmian, then spends the last 40% of the movie on anti-Japanese propaganda, giving a detailed presentation of Jack's experiences as a war correspondent (which probably lasted a few months) covering the Japanese-Russian War.
No mention is made of Jack's first marriage to Bess or his two daughters by her. No mention is made of Jack's long-term membership in the Socialist Party or his public resignation from that party when he considered them hypocrites. No mention is made of Jack's self-education that took him far beyond a college education or of the IQ he must have had to be able to go so far on his own.
As a movie, the film is streaked, the sound ratty. The Californian Jack London is played by a guy with a strong Brooklyn accent. (This is a switch from today when every character of every nationality and time period speaks with a California accent.)
Bottom line: Read London's autobiographical novel "Martin Eden". It's his best novel and will give you a better feel for the man than any of the biographies, each of which has one ax or another to grind.
April 15, 2006
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