While watching the canine-centered action-adventure "The Call of the Wild" (in theaters Friday), we couldn't help but wonder: Why is the star dog Buck a lumbering St. Bernard mix and instead of ...

3-D indie "Call of the Wild" loses focus (literally ... who allows a dogsled contest to determine the ownership of wild Buck. Too bad the animal’s protruding nose is the only feature that ...

Buck, an enormous domestic dog, is kidnapped from his home in California and sold to pull sleds in the Yukon. He adapts to his new surroundings, and listens to the call of the wild, which brings ...

Director Chris Sanders had the animation chops to make Buck the protagonist, but took advantage of reshoots with producer James Mangold to bolster Ford's screen presence. With Buck, the famed St ...

But the so-so “The Call of the Wild” can at least boast some literary cred. It’s based on Jack London’s 1903 novel about a Saint Bernard-Scotch collie mix, called Buck, who’s abducted ...

And the final sequences, depicting Buck’s inevitably succumbing to the call of the wild and bonding with a pack of timber wolves, are moving, even if the animals are CGI-created. Still ...

Dog lovers, meet an adorable pup coming to the big screen in February: Buck from "The Call of the Wild." Adapted from the literary classic, the film tells the story of a big-hearted dog whose ...