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The Sea Wolf
I’m quite familiar with Jack London’s writing. I’ve read The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang, Martin Eden, The Iron Heel etc. I’ve seen some movie or TV movie adaptations. I don’t remember much of it in detail. I only know I truly enjoyed all of those.
Michael Curtiz is also well known to me and I’ve seen Casablanca, Mildred Pierce and some other movies he directed and can’t recall the names.
I found Jack London’s adaptation of Sea Wolf very well made and atmospheric. A writer and two fugitives are shipwrecked only to get saved by a nearby sealer called Ghost. They are saved however things go from bad to worst. Captain of Ghost is educated and cruel Wolf Larsen ruminating philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, especially Übermensch concept, Herbert Spencer, Darwin. He likes to read Poe and very often quotes from John Milton’s Paradise Lost. He likes famous „Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven“ the most. All this influence with a mixture of his rotten character made him a cruel man. The hell was his ship and he likes to have weak people around him who cannot challenge him. Obviously for the movie adaptation filmmakers decided to easy up on dialogues between captain and writer which was a great decision otherwise it wouldn’t be accessible to all of the audience. It is good enough to listen carefully to writer’s overview of captains character and to see his actions reigning his vessel, his hell. He’s so blinded that he is actually physically blind getting on and off to some kind of fits. Of course all that oppression and cruelty is answered by mutiny. The scene with captain ridiculing and demeaning Dr. Prescott was so cruel. Writer, girl and George try to escape but ... see the ending for yourself
The movie is well done and actors did a good job. Edward G. Robinson and Alexander Knox were both excellent and convinced me of their characters. And of course Ida Lupino, Gene Lockhart, Barry Fitzgerald etc. I cannot say nothing against the „Jaws“ scene. The camera was great stressing all that evil atmosphere. I found this movie excellent Jack London’s novel adaptation and a decent nom @edarsenal
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I still have to put together my list and send it to Citizen. By the way, very nice picture Citizen. I guess you had to do quite of a search to find a merry Orson picture. 
