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Jack London, also known as The Story of Jack London, is a 1943 American biographical film made by Samuel Bronston Productions and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Alfred Santell and produced by Samuel Bronston with Joseph H. Nadel as associate producer, from a screenplay by Isaac Don Levine and Ernest Pascal based on the 1921 ...
Jack London: Directed by Alfred Santell. With Michael O'Shea, Susan Hayward, Osa Massen, Harry Davenport. Episodes in the adventurous life of the American novelist (1876-1916).
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- Adventure, Biography, War
- Alfred Santell
- 1943-12-24
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. This movie tells of his various adventurous life before he became an accomplished wri...
- 91 min
- 28.6K
- Cult Cinema Classics
Mar 30, 2008 · The film follows the adventures of the writer Jack London (Michael O'Shea) who was, among other things, oyster pirate, hobo, sailor, prospector and war correspondent.
- 91 min
May 26, 2022 · The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is an anthology film that tells six different stories staged in the Old West, and one of those is an adaptation of Jack London's "All Gold Canyon ," the short story of a prospector searching for gold in a mountain. The movie is directed by the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, who ...
Film Length. 8,412ft. Episodes in the novelist's life: In 1890, young Jack London quits a cannery job to try oyster piracy. Later, he signs on for a sealing voyage, tries Yukon prospecting and a brief university career, loving and leaving women along the way. Instead of riches, he gets story ideas.
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Jack London was born January 12, 1876. [10] His mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones. Marshall Wellman was descended from Thomas Wellman, an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. [11] Flora left Ohio and moved to the Pacific coast when her father remarried after her mother died. In San Francisco, Flora worked as a music teacher and spiritualist, claiming to channel the ...
