The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild (1972) — watch online on iFILM Ken Annakin's rugged adventure drama co-produced across Germany, Spain, France and Italy. Based on Jack London's novel: the Yukon Gold Rush, an unforgiving North, and Buck, a well-bred California dog kidnapped and thrown into a world where only the strong survive.

It's 1896, and sled dogs are worth more than gold dust up in the Klondike. Buck gets an education in brutality fast — the club, the pack, the pack's law. The one man who treats him as something other than equipment is John Thornton, played by Charlton Heston with quiet stubbornness rather than Hollywood heroics. Their bond is the film's spine.

Shot on location in Norway, the snowscapes are the real thing. Of all the adaptations London's story has received, this version is the harshest — no glossed-over frontier romance, just cold, gold and survival. Stream The Call of the Wild (1972) online on iFILM.