Jack London

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney,January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.

Works

Jack London’s Son of the Wolf

After winning a thousand dollars in gold in a boxing match, Jack Mackenzie and his wolf-dog trek south on a journey in hunt of a suitable wife.

Release Date:2024-05-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

The Minions of Midas

Victor Genovés, an influential businessman, is blackmailed: if he doesn't agree to pay a large sum of money, the self-styled Midas favorites will kill a person at random at a designated place and time and add a new victim periodically until they achieve their goal. How many deaths will he be able to carry on his shoulders?

Release Date:2020-11-13

Department:Writing

Job:Book

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:129

The Call of the Wild

Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team—and later its leader—Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.

Release Date:2020-02-19

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:3767

Veterán

Old guilt, forgiveness and a new love. After 20 years in the French Foreign Legion, Martin returns to his Czech hometown. As soon as he arrives, he learns that his mother has died in his absence. Martin realizes that while in the military he learned to survive in any dangerous situation, but not how to cope with the complexities of human emotions and relationships. When he meets the deputy mayor's clever daughter Sara, he falls passionately in love and happiness seems to be within reach. But then his past catches up with him ...

Release Date:2020-02-09

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:13

Martin Eden

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.

Release Date:2019-09-04

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:664

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.

Release Date:2018-11-09

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Vote Count:4072

White Fang

A loyal wolfdog’s curiosity leads him on the adventure of a lifetime while serving a series of three distinctly different masters.

Release Date:2018-03-28

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:199

На грани

Release Date:2017-12-15

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:1

To Build a Fire

To celebrate Jack London's 100th death anniversary, director Fx Goby adapted his famous novel, "To Build a Fire", tragic tale of a trapper and his dog in the freezing Yukon, into an animated short film.

Release Date:2016-10-14

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:4

Lost Face

Subienkow is in mortal danger. The fort he and his fellow fur thieves have erected in the snow is in flames - attacked by the very tribe they enslaved to build it - now only he and Big Ivan remain. As Ivan is tortured before him Subienkow must think fast to escape the terrible, protracted death that awaits him. He calls over the chief, Makamuk, and begins to bargain...

Release Date:2016-09-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:7

A Thousand Deaths

A mad scientist repeatedly kills and resurrects his own son. Based on the story by Jack London.

Release Date:2014-07-15

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Moon Face

The relationship of hatred and obsession by a farmer for his neighbor, which will force him to take strong action. Based on the eponymous story by Jack London, "Moon Face".

Release Date:2012-03-06

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:1

Burning Daylight

Based on three short stories by American writer Jack London, Burning Daylight follows the lives of three thieves, three Wall Street bankers and a Klondike millionaire, tied together by one ruthless woman

Release Date:2010-11-14

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:5

Sea Wolf

Captain Wolf Larsen, the notorious Sea Wolf who rules the crew of his ship, the Ghost, with an iron fist. While on the high seas he takes on a castaway, the literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden. But instead of dropping him off at the next harbour, Larsen forces him to work in his crew as a ship boy. The young dandy has to fight for his very own survival in this new, rough world on board. But his most dangerous challenge is the captain himself, who involves him in an evil game.

Release Date:2009-11-04

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:7

Call of the Wild

Self-centered and status-conscious, ten year old Ryann Hale journeys to Montana to visit her down-to-earth grandpa, Bill Hale. Ryann bonds with a wolf-dog, Buck, and schemes to save him from a cruel dogsledder.

Release Date:2009-06-12

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:42

Der Seewolf

A literary critic who survives an ocean collision comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him.

Release Date:2008-11-24

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Fareler

Two Istanbul thieves rob the house of prominent jeweler and make off with millions of lira in jewelry and cash. Back at their safehouse, they get little sleep after tensions rise over how they’ll divide the loot. In the morning, the matter is decided.

Release Date:2005-10-05

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:2

To Build a Fire

A man is traveling through the great North American wilderness, in temperatures of seventy degrees below zero, with only his dog for a companion. As he crosses a frozen stream, a misstep puts his foot through the ice. He knows he must find a way to build a fire to warm himself, or face death. Frenzy and desperation take over, challenging all attempts to survive..

Release Date:2003-06-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

The Iron Heel of Oligarchy

Nikolai Petrovich comes to St. Petersburg to organize a revolution against the oligarchy.

Release Date:1997-11-05

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:6

The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon

Jack London's classic story from 1903 about Buck, a dog kidnapped from his home in California and taken to the Yukon where he is mistreated until a prospector discovers him and relates to his situation. Although the two are bonded, Buck yearns to run free with the wild dogs in the wilderness.

Release Date:1997-06-22

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:39

The Sea Wolf

Thrown overboard while conducting an environmental investigation, Humphrey Van Weyden is as good as dead. But before he can meet his watery doom, he is plucked up by the crew of the freighter "The Ghost". The ship's formidable captain, Wolf Larsen, sees a challenge in Humphrey; to turn this over educated idealist into a man of action like himself. Larsen succeeds in changing Humphrey's life, but in the process sacrifices himself to the same rage and instability that makes him such a powerful figure. In a gripping final confrontation, Humphrey must stop Wolf from destroying everything around him as he battles his own mortality. Based on the classic novel by Jack London.

Release Date:1997-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

White Fang

Adventure awaits in the story of White Fang, a peaceful courageous wolf who overcomes all odds in this animated tale for children based on Jack London's original classic. A young wolf pup and his mother are forced to join a Native American tribe to survive after their pack leader perishes. He is reluctantly traded to a greedy businessman in compensation for a grievance and entrained in a corrupt dog fighting ring. Rescued by a compassionate young man, White Fang begins a lifelong bond, finds puppy love and room for more adventures...

Release Date:1997-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:6

Les Légendes du Grand Nord

A mixed group of adventurers searches for Esperanza, a legendary gold treasure, in the Yukon territory in this Jack London-based tale.

Release Date:1995-03-25

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf

A boy and his dog, White Fang, must try to save the noble Haida tribe from evil white men in turn-of-the-century Alaska.

Release Date:1994-04-15

Department:Writing

Job:Adaptation

Vote Count:127

The Sea Wolf

Jack London's brutal Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed ship, the Ghost.

Release Date:1994-03-17

Department:Writing

Job:Book

Vote Count:16

The Alaska Kid

The Alaska Kid is a 1991 German / Russian / Polish television miniseries, based on Jack London's 1912 short story anthology, Smoke Bellew. First broadcast on the German ZDF network in December 1993, the series stars Mark Pillow as "The Alaska Kid" Jack Bellew, a newspaper reporter on his beat during the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska.

Release Date:1993-12-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:13

Vote Count:1

Call Of The Wild

A young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck.

Release Date:1993-04-25

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:9

Moon-Face

A short animated film, adapted from the Jack London story "Moon-Face."

Release Date:1993-02-07

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Serdtsa Tryokh

A young millionaire Francis Morgan along with his distant cousin, a cowboy Henry Morgan and Henry's bride Leoncia are searching for the Maya treasures.

Release Date:1992-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:23

Морской волк

Release Date:1991-06-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:5

Soldier Soldier

The daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.

Release Date:1991-06-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:13

White Fang

White Fang, part wold and part dog, is born in the wild where he spends his early months before becoming Grey Beaver's loyal and trusted dog. When the Indian is unable to trade his furs, he reluctantly accepts gold pieces from Beauty Smith in exchange for White Fang. Smith is an evil man who cages and torments White Fang so as to transform him into a hateful, fighting dog. Smith travels the Yukon staging dog fight and making substantial sums of money from White Fang's victories. After a particularly brutal fight in which White Fang is severely injured by a ferocious bull dog, an animal lover, Weedon Scott, stops the fight and carries White Fang off. White Fang recovers and becomes the Scott family pet.

Release Date:1991-03-09

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

White Fang

Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him.

Release Date:1991-01-18

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:597

Buck at the Edge of Heaven

Loosely based upon Jack London's novels, this is a canine adventure set in the wilderness of the far North, amidst gold diggers, outlaws and children-in-distress.

Release Date:1991-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:9

Suns, kurš prata dziedāt

Release Date:1991-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

The Gold Diggers

Release Date:1986-05-25

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

White Fang Story

White Fang is born on the planes of Alaska to a wolf father and a half-wolf, half-dog mother. One day he and his mother run into an Alaskan inuit boy Mit-sah, who has long dreamed of a dog of his own, and by a marvellous twist of fate, the wolves are taken in by him and his father. But life in Alaska is harsh for humans and wolves alike, and as winter comes, hardships lie in waiting for White Fang and Mit-sah. Facing the extreme coldness of their habitat and that of humans' greedy hearts, the two journey towards what they hope to be a happier environment.

Release Date:1982-05-05

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:1

Theft

Theft takes place in Washington, DC. Howard Knox is a well-intentioned Congressman crusading for reform. He is scheduled to make a speech in which he will expose the corrupt activities of an industrial magnate and his congressional stooges. The wealthy capitalist in question, Anthony Starkweather, along with his son-in-law and political puppet, Senator Thomas Chalmers, will do everything in their power to foil Knox's great speech and publicly disgrace him. To complicate matters, Margaret Chalmers, wife of Senator Chalmers and daughter of Starkweather, forms a friendship with Knox and begins to sympathize with his cause.

Release Date:1982-03-20

Department:Writing

Job:Theatre Play

Vote Count:3

Let Him Perform

A group of thieves plans a daring heist to steal a valuable diamond from a wealthy businessman.

Release Date:1981-09-01

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Call of the Wild: Howl, Buck

Buck is a half German Shepard half Saint Bernard whose life is peaceful and happy living with the Millers in California. However, one day he is tricked and sold off. He ends up in the snowy North where he has become a sled dog during the Gold Rush. His story takes many twists and turns and he has to fight for his own survival.

Release Date:1981-01-03

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:4

Klondike Fever

This movie chronicles Jack London's epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1898.

Release Date:1980-01-12

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:7

Michael, the Dog That Sang

Release Date:1979-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:7

Útek zo zlatej krajiny

Release Date:1979-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:7

The Hussy

An unemployed engineer working as a driver at an oil company hears about a lost Inca treasure and goes in search of it.

Release Date:1978-05-06

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:1

Králova žena

Release Date:1978-03-19

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

The Law of Life

An adaptation of Jack London's short story covering the last 5 hours of the old and dying Inuit chief Koskoosh.

Release Date:1977-03-03

Department:Writing

Job:Book

Martin Iden

Release Date:1976-09-22

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

The Call of the Wild

A prospector, a trapper and their sled dog battle the Klondike elements on their journey to get to the gold country.

Release Date:1976-05-22

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:3

Smoke and Shorty

A musical movie based on Jack London novels.

Release Date:1975-12-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:3

Lockruf des Goldes

Release Date:1975-12-21

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:4

The Great Adventure

During the American Gold Rush era, an orphaned boy and his wild dog who must battle against the Yukon wilderness and human greed to help save a frontier town.

Release Date:1975-03-13

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:5

Kit & Co.

The adventures of Kit Bellew and his friend Shorty during the gold fever at the end of the 19th century.

Release Date:1974-12-15

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:3

Challenge to White Fang

Sequel to Lucio Fulci's first 'White Fang' has the wolf-dog once again trying to stop the villainous Beauty Smith from claiming a recently discovered gold mine in 1899 Yukon, Canada.

Release Date:1974-10-25

Department:Writing

Job:Characters

Vote Count:31

White Fang

The wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father of ridding a gold mining town of a sleazy crime lord in 1896 Yukon, Canada.

Release Date:1973-12-21

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:62

Dynamit

The drama of a man driven to crime by the mechanism of violence in an American prison. It is an indictment of American justice and the barbarically cruel methods of prison staff. Based on Jack London's novel "The Star Rover".

Release Date:1973-12-17

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Emperor of the North

Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.

Release Date:1973-05-23

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:128

The Call of the Wild

John Thornton, is a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton works for the U.S. mail and is the only person daring and smart enough to figure out how to travel the deadly 600 miles from Skagway to Dawson, Alaska in the icy winter. His incredibly dog Buck is by his side and part of how he survives.

Release Date:1972-11-30

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:55

Cry of the Black Wolves

A fur hunter living as a hermit in the Alaskan mountains is mistakenly suspected of the murder of a gold prospector. The murdered man's sister hires a gunslinger to catch the hunter, but after a dramatic confrontation, the two men become friends. Adventure movie based on Jack London's novel "Son of the Wolf".

Release Date:1972-10-04

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:7

Kaňon samé zlato

Release Date:1972-04-07

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Claim na Hluchém potoku

Release Date:1972-04-07

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Poslední výstřel Davida Sandela

Release Date:1972-04-07

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

The Sea Wolf

Writer Humphrey van Weyden is thrown overboard in a shipwreck in the Bay of San Francisco, and is rescued by the seal-hunting schooner 'Ghost' under the command of the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen.

Release Date:1971-12-05

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:19

The Assassination Bureau

In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.

Release Date:1969-03-09

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:66

To Build a Fire

A man travels by foot in the snow with his dog.

Release Date:1969-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:5

Cesta řeky k moři

Release Date:1966-12-25

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Zabiť človeka

Release Date:1965-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Убить человека

Release Date:1961-02-24

Department:Writing

Job:Story

The Mexican

Based on the short story by Jack London. 1910 year. Mexican patriots are preparing an uprising against the dictatorship of Diaz. Young Felipe Rivera joins the revolutionary junta, whose father and mother were shot by dictators. The hour of rebellion is near, but the heroes lack weapons. To get the necessary amount of money, Rivera decides to perform in the ring against Ward, America’s strongest boxer...

Release Date:1956-04-13

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:3

The Fighter

A boxer, in Mexico, sets out to avenge the murder of his family by using the money from his winnings to purchase weapons.

Release Date:1952-05-23

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

Barricade

Western remake of Jack London's The Sea Wolf. A sadistic mining camp owner "hires" scoundrels to work the mine. He just won't let them quit.

Release Date:1950-03-24

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:6

The White Fang

According to the story by Jack London. The history of the wild wolf, who picked up the boy and raised an Indian. After falling to the evil man - the owner of the bar, White Fang turned into a ferocious evil beast, coming out victorious from all the dog fights, which suited his enterprising owner. But once it strangled, snatched from the jaws of the bulldog engineer Weedon Scott. His kindness has transformed the beast.

Release Date:1946-06-06

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:6

Alaska

A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping gang.

Release Date:1944-11-18

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

El mexicano

Release Date:1944-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:2

The Adventures of Martin Eden

Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.

Release Date:1942-02-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

North to the Klondike

Based upon the novel by Jack London, two friends in the Klondike aid settlers being terrorized by outlaws.

Release Date:1942-01-23

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:3

Sign of the Wolf

Two German shepherds and their mistress (Grace Bradley) crash-land in Canada by a fox breeder's (Michael Whalen) farm.

Release Date:1941-03-25

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:1

The Sea Wolf

Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.

Release Date:1941-03-21

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:57

Queen of the Yukon

The owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who attempts to steal claims from local miners.

Release Date:1940-08-26

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:3

Torture Ship

A mad scientist uses captured criminals as experiments for his study on "the criminal mind" aboard his private ship.

Release Date:1939-10-28

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:10

Wolf Call

A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he's sent by his father to work in a rural mining community in Canada.

Release Date:1939-05-22

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

Romance of the Redwoods

June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malone for her and loses, thus casting suspicion on himself when Malone dies under cloudy circumstances.

Release Date:1939-03-29

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

The Mutiny Of The Elsinore

The story of a surly crew, an honest God-fearing captain, a hardboiled-but-loyal Scotch mate, a scoundrelly second-mate, and then a mutiny, the fight and the final voyage to a safe harbor. But not before the Captain has been murdered, his pretty daughter in peril, her rescue by the single passenger on board, and a member of the crew thrown overboard by another crew member.

Release Date:1938-04-25

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Conflict

Pat's ability as a logging/mining camp fighter sets him up to box prizefighter Corrigan. Unknown to his supporters, he's actually in collusion with Corrigan to throw the fight - until he runs into reporter Maude.

Release Date:1936-11-29

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

White Fang

A woman and her weakling brother inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.

Release Date:1936-07-17

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

Les mutinés de l'Elseneur

A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an adaptation of the novel The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London.

Release Date:1936-02-29

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Call of the Wild

Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan -- who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found -- Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter. Buck helps Jack win a $1,000 bet to get the supplies he needs. And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.

Release Date:1935-08-09

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:47

The Sea Wolf

George, Ruth and Humphrey go for a boat ride with Wolf Larsen.

Release Date:1930-09-21

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Smoke Bellew

A tale of the great Alaska gold rush in which a man falsely accused of murder tracks down the guilty man.

Release Date:1929-01-25

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:1

Tropical Nights

Patsy Ruth Miller stars as the romantic bone of contention between pearl divers Malcolm McGregor and Wallace MacDonald. When McGregor's brother is murdered, Miller is arrested for the crime. The actual killer, however, is MacDonald, who does an expert job covering his tracks.

Release Date:1928-12-10

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Stormy Waters

Silent drama film based on the story "Yellow Handkerchief" by Jack London.

Release Date:1928-06-01

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Burning Daylight

Elam "Burning Daylight" Harnish is a prospector who makes a million dollars in the Dawson, Alaska gold rush and loses the million dollars in Dawson. He journeys to San Francisco, makes three million dollars and loses it in San Francisco. He returns to Alaska and eventually finds his treasure.

Release Date:1928-03-10

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

The Devil's Skipper

The Devil's Skipper was based on Demetrios Contos, a seafaring yarn by Jack London. Effectively cast against type, Belle Bennett plays a wronged woman who becomes the most brutal and feared slave-ship captain on the Seven Seas.

Release Date:1928-02-01

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

By the Law

After a man kills two members of his Yukon gold prospecting team, the other two surviving members struggle to keep him subdued for the next several months until they can turn him over to the law.

Release Date:1926-12-03

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:34

The Sea Wolf

Captain "Wolf" Larsen, the absolute master of a seal schooner, is a mystic and philosopher, though he rules his men with an iron hand. On a ferry going from San Francisco to Oakland, Van Weyden, a critic, and Maud Brewster, a novelist, meet in masquerade costumes and are forced overboard when their boat collides with a steamer. Humphrey, then Maud, are picked up by Larsen's crew. Because of her costume, Maud is taken for a boy and placed in the custody of Mugridge, the cook, who attempts to attack her upon discovering her identity. Larsen takes her under his protection and decides to marry her; but as the ceremony begins, the crew mutinies, and Larsen is stricken with blindness as he faces the rebels. The ship is set afire, and though Humphrey and Maud are rescued by another steamer, Larsen, deserted by his crew, refuses to quit his ship and is enveloped in flames.

Release Date:1926-07-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

Morganson's Finish

Morganson's Finish was inspired by the Jack London story of the same name. The hero, Dick Gilbert is in love with wealthy Barbara Wesley but he is disgraced in her eyes through the underhanded machinations of his rival Dan Morganson.

Release Date:1926-05-15

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

White Fang

Silent version of the classic Jack London tale.

Release Date:1925-05-24

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Adventure

David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fever, and then he becomes sick himself. Joan Lackland, a female soldier of fortune, arrives by schooner in the islands. With the help of her Kanaka crew, she protects David from an attack by the natives who are led by Googomy. Joan nurses David back to health and becomes his business partner, protecting his mortgaged property from two avaricious moneylenders. Seeking vengeance, the moneylenders incite the natives to revolt.

Release Date:1925-04-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

The Call of the Wild

A dog is stolen from his home in England and shipped to Canada to become a sled dog. Based on the novel by Jack London.

Release Date:1923-09-22

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Abysmal Brute

A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great strength and athletic skill, he is completely out of his league when it comes to women. He becomes a successful boxer in San Francisco and is given the name "The Abysmal Brute". When he rescues a drowning man, he meets a beautiful socialite named Maude Sangster and falls in love. His lack of social skills proves a hindrance when a rival suitor competes with him for Maude's affections.

Release Date:1923-04-15

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

The Sea Wolf

Humphrey Van Weyden and Maud Brewster are rescued by a nearby ship when the ferry they're on is rammed and sinks. However, instead of dropping them off ashore, the ship's fearsome captain, the brutal Wolf Larsen, forces Humphrey to work as a cabin boy--and has other ideas for the pretty young Maud. (Written by [email protected])

Release Date:1920-05-15

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Born Not For Money

Release Date:1919-02-18

Department:Writing

Job:Story

The Chechako

The Chechako is a 1914 adventure drama based on Jack London's Smoke Bellew

Release Date:1914-11-23

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Burning Daylight: The Adventures of 'Burning Daylight' in Alaska

Elam Harnish, known as "Burning Daylight," is a leader among the men of Circle City, Alaska in the days before the gold rush. Nell, a dance hall girl, loves Harnish, though he has never offered her anything but friendship. Harnish's hunch that the big strike is coming soon proves true, and he throws himself into the frenzy of activity that follows, staking claims and eventually accumulating eleven million dollars. Harnish leaves Alaska for San Francisco without knowing that Nell has killed herself because of his departure. -From TCM.com Database, powered by the AFI.

Release Date:1914-09-14

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

An Odyssey of the North

Based on the short story "An Odyssey of the North" by Jack London in his The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North

Release Date:1914-09-03

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Martin Eden

A sad story about how a working-class man tries, and succeeds, to become a writer, but finds difficulty in fitting into that world.

Release Date:1914-08-16

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

John Barleycorn

Based on the autobiographical novel of the same name. Jack London has struggled with alcoholism most of his life. At age five he was instructed to bring a pail of beer to his father and drank some to prevent it spilling over, getting drunk for the first time. As an adult, he goes through cycles of abstinence only to return to hard drinking.

Release Date:1914-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

The Sea Wolf

The cruel captain of a schooner dominates the shipwreck victims he picks up.

Release Date:1913-12-07

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Character:Sailor

Vote Count:1

Two Men of the Desert

The young authoress had come to the edge of the desert for her mother's sake. There she met the two young prospectors and a romance began. But the men were about to go across the desert, where they had heard rumors of gold. They decided to play square and before going determined to let the coin decide who should ask the young authoress the all-important question. The flip of the coin decided the older should try his luck first. He learned the girl did not love him. But the other she promised to marry when he should return from the gold lands, and the care of her sick mother, who would then be restored to health, should no longer interfere with her happiness. The young partners soon reached the other side of the desert, where success came to them far beyond their expectations.

Release Date:1913-08-23

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Man's Genesis

An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated by Bruteforce, he bumps into Lillywhite, who has also been cowering in her cave in mourning. The two new lovers form a connection, but Bruteforce separates the couple and sends Weakhands scrambling. In his cave, Weakhands thinks up the design of a stone club. With this equalizer, he soon vanquishes Bruteforce and wins Lillywhite back again-- An early step in human progress.

Release Date:1912-07-10

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:8

The Call of the Wild

George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the college football team. At a reception given in his honor by Lieut. Penrose, an Indian agent, the civilized brave meets Gladys, the lieutenant's daughter, and falls desperately in love with her.

Release Date:1908-10-27

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:3