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 ...

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 ...

Doesn't work.• I read years ago Clark Gable, star of original 1935 Call of the Wild, felt sorry for Buck, film's real dog. Buck was forced to drag heavy loads, take after take, till exhaustion.

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 ...

Although the two are bonded, Buck yearns to run free with the wild dogs in the wilderness.

Though The Call of the Wild is about dogs, this same heartlessness is vividly depicted in the book. Buck was based on a dog named Jack. While up north, London became friends with the brothers ...

Bond's hound Jack would be the inspiration for Buck, the hero of The Call of the Wild. This forced London to become a tenacious sailor, and in 1893 he signed on as an able-bodied seaman on the ...