White Fang *** (1991, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ethan Hawke, Seymour Cassel, Susan Hogan, James Remar, Bill Moseley) – Classic Movie Review 6367

Director Randal Kleiser’s very popular, smoothly efficient and extremely good-looking 1991 Disney film version of the old Jack London story stars the young Ethan Hawke, who gives an appealing performance as young gold hunter Jack Conroy.

Jack faces adversity in the Klondike with only the wolf-dog White Fang (played by Jed) he has rescued from a cruel owner to keep him company after his mother’s death.

The striking Alaskan snowy wastes views shot by Tony Pierce-Roberts and Basil Poledouris’s pounding score are grand, and the movie tells a likeable, involving story, though kids might get restless over the sedate pacing and old-fashioned nature of the film. It is all very warm, sweet and wholesome, though.

Also in the cast are Klaus Maria Brandauer as Alex, Seymour Cassel as Skunker, Susan Hogan, James Remar and Bill Moseley.

It is written by Jeanne Rosenberg, Nick Thiel, David Fallon, and produced by Mary Kay Powell.

It is a remake of the semi-classic 1936 movie White Fang, with Michael Whalen, Jean Muir, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charles Winninger and Slim Summerville, and a 1972 film with Franco Nero.

It was a hit and followed by a sequel in 1994: White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf, with Scott Bairstow.

Jed also played the dog/alien in John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982).

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