![]() ![]() The magazine printed passages of both books side-by-side as evidence. In 1907, the weekly New York magazine The Independent carried a story headlined, “Is Jack London a plagiarist?” The article suggested that London had ripped off Egerton R Young’s book My Dogs in Northland. London was caught up in his own controversy following the publication of his bestseller. In the 2020 film, Buck is a CGI creation. In that film, Buck was played by three leonberger dog “actors”. It was a role first played by Clark Gable in the 1935 version of The Call of the Wild, a performance still stained by controversy, because the surviving family of Loretta Young have since claimed that the 34-year-old Gable raped his 22-year-old co-star during the production. Thornton is portrayed in the new film by Harrison Ford. In the novel, Buck becomes the property of outdoorsman John Thornton and the dog ends up saving his master’s life. ![]()
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