Jack London

[00:00:01][music] Lasalito, California. One of the greatest crowds in the West gathers to witness the launching of a Liberty ship.

[00:00:09][music] There is something about this crowd, as there is about this ship, that is different from any other. Something you cannot see, yet something that all who are assembled here can feel. [music] The presence of an unseen yet vital personality. For the name of this ship is Jack London. [music] Never was a Liberty ship more fittingly named. The fearless spirit and purpose of the man lives again in every member of its crew and invests the ship itself with true significance. For Jack London was more than a great author. He was a real American.

[00:00:44][music] He lived and wrote that others might be free. [music] Free to read the truth. Free to write or wrong. free to raise their voices on behalf of the welfare of their fellow men.

[00:01:00][music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [music] Heat.

[00:01:42][music] [music] [bell] [music] Heat.

[00:02:03]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Oh. Was [music] it pain?

[00:02:33]>> It was awful.

[00:02:35]She just sits there and falls asleep [music] and the next thing you know she's into it and the machine smashes her hand.

[00:02:45][music] [music] [music] Come on. Everybody back to work. [music] [music] >> Hey, London. You, too. [music] Come on. Get back to work. You won't have a job.

[00:03:24]>> [music] [music] >> It could have been my fingers just as easy as that girl's. Lots of times I've almost dozed off and you just [music] caught myself in time.

[00:03:41]It's the rotten air and the noise that never stops. 12 hours [music] a day beating in your brain. But 10 cents. 10 cents an hour.

[00:03:49]>> Oh, I know, honey. But things are bad all over.

[00:03:53]>> [music] >> It isn't that, Mandy, Jenny. It's It's just that people like us, poor [music] people, have to work in filthy holes just to exist. And that other people, rich people, can have everything they want. Fine clothes and carriages, and not only things, but time. [music] Time to live and time to think and time to learn.

[00:04:13]That's what I want, Mommy. Jenny. Time.

[00:04:15][music] >> I guess you're right, Jack.

[00:04:20][music] Jimmy, have you got any money?

[00:04:27]>> Well, I've got some some of them saving.

[00:04:30]Would you lend it to me? [music] >> What for? I want to get myself a boat and I can make [music] money, lots of them, fast.

[00:04:41]Jackie, what are you thinking about?

[00:04:47]>> Oyster hauling. [music] Arster hauling. Arster pirating, you mean?

[00:04:52]>> I wouldn't [music] stay at it long, Mommy Jenny. Just a few halls and I'd have enough money that last me 3 months, a whole year, maybe. Then I'd be free to get some schooling.

[00:05:01]>> Don't you let me hear you talk like that. [music] I help to bring you in this world. And I want to see you grow up right so you'll mount to something.

[00:05:10]I ain't going to help you get in no trouble. [music] >> I don't want to get into trouble. I'm trying to get out. Is it wrong to want to fight your way out?

[00:05:18]I'd pay you back every cent more even.

[00:05:21]Oh, it ain't the money, darling. You could have all I got. But But I couldn't sleep nights woring over you. Oh, Jenny, if anything had happened to you, I'd never forgive myself. [music] Never mind, Jenny. Forget about it.

[00:05:40][music] >> [music] >> 170, 180, 200, 220, and five makes 225.

[00:05:54]>> And you get bargain move here. I tell you straight, I hate to give her up, but I got chance to buy bigger board.

[00:06:02]>> I've had my eye on her for a long time.

[00:06:04]I've been a food working in those juke and canning factories.

[00:06:08]>> Well, come on. Let's down the deal, huh?

[00:06:18]Oh, Mie, get your stuff off that boat.

[00:06:22]Meet me on the reindeer.

[00:06:28]Know you're going to like that boat.

[00:06:30]Good boy.

[00:06:34][music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Hello. What are you doing here?

[00:06:57]>> Fell asleep. Hello.

[00:06:59][music] >> You going in with French Frank?

[00:07:03]>> What's that got to do with you?

[00:07:05]Nothing.

[00:07:07]Only there's an awful lot to learn about oyster pirating.

[00:07:12]>> Who taught you?

[00:07:14]>> My brother. He was the best of them.

[00:07:17][music] Till he got a bullet in him.

[00:07:20]You're sort of young looking to be getting a bullet in you.

[00:07:23]>> That's the chance you take it.

[00:07:26]>> Hey, you shouldn't go out tonight.

[00:07:27][music] >> Why not?

[00:07:28]>> With a moon up.

[00:07:29]>> I'm not going out for ravens.

[00:07:32]Just like to try her out, huh?

[00:07:35]>> That's right. [music] >> When you get a boat of your own, it sort of makes a man out of you, [music] don't it?

[00:07:42]>> Sure does.

[00:07:50][music] >> We got some sail patching to do. A rat must have got it this one. [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Hey, there's Scratch Nelson. [music] >> Hi, Scratch.

[00:08:23]>> Hello, Jack. Hi, my >> how have you been? I haven't seen you around lately. Hey, what happened to you?

[00:08:28]>> Oh, I uh I had a run in with French Frank over the split. Huh?

[00:08:34]>> Well, a new dress.

[00:08:36]>> You everything out?

[00:08:38]>> Yes, sir. Maybe the queen of the Oyster Pirates. [music] >> Come on, let's sit down. Huh?

[00:08:42]>> Yeah.

[00:08:46]>> [music] >> Hey, uh, Jack, [music] you know, I was just wondering, how's about me coming in with you?

[00:08:57]>> Why, sure, Scratch. We make enough for a three-way split. Be glad to have you.

[00:09:01]Only you better talk to my skipper here.

[00:09:04]>> Well, what do you say, Mie?

[00:09:06]>> Sure. [music] Why not? Then I'd have somebody to chew the fat with when Shakespeare is right in one of them yarns of his.

[00:09:15]Hey, Curly. [music] Double drinks all around for my new partner. Coming up, Jack. We'll have a real blowout after our first big hall.

[00:09:25][music] >> [music] >> All right, Mimi. Tie her up.

[00:09:54][music] >> Well, we're in first again, Scratch. We ain't been second yet.

[00:10:05]>> Here comes Frenchie.

[00:10:07]>> Coming in on a drag anchor.

[00:10:15]Come on, let's beat him to the market.

[00:10:18]>> That's the girl.

[00:10:20][music] >> Keep up, boys. What do you think?

[00:10:34]Heat. Heat.

[00:10:37][music] [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat.

[00:11:17][music] Heat.

[00:11:24][music] [music] Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] >> What are you thinking?

[00:11:51]>> I'm thinking that one of these days it's going to be me laid out there in a slam [music] like a hulk. A dead fish or worse a 10-year prison stretch life maybe.

[00:12:00]>> Let's go [music] someplace. Huh?

[00:12:01]>> I can't.

[00:12:04]>> What are you going to do? [music] >> I'm through with this rocky business.

[00:12:08]>> Oh, don't talk like that, honey. You're just down hard enough. [music] What happened? And losing your boat.

[00:12:14]>> Isn't that I'm through?

[00:12:17][music] >> What about me?

[00:12:20]>> You got to choose for yourself.

[00:12:22]>> You bet your life I'll choose. If that's the way you are. [music] >> I'm sorry, but I got to You're yellow. That's what you are.

[00:12:33]Quitter. [music] Dirty stinking quitter.

[00:12:42]$30 muffling pound. Sign here and make your mark.

[00:12:48]$30 a month. Sign here and make your mark.

[00:12:53]$30 a month. Sign here. Well, Tom, old 48. Why I thought you back on that pond?

[00:13:00]>> I didn't make it. I'll make it this time though, you bet.

[00:13:03]>> How long is this cruise?

[00:13:05]>> About 7 months. The bearing seat.

[00:13:08]Wow, that ain't so long.

[00:13:12]>> That's right, Tom. That's right. $30 a month and pound. Sign your name.

[00:13:18]$30 a month and pound. Sign here. Make your mark.

[00:13:22]>> $30 a month and pound. Sign here.

[00:13:26]Name?

[00:13:27]>> Jack London.

[00:13:28]>> Experience?

[00:13:29]>> Not very much, sir, but I'm a good sailor.

[00:13:31]>> What are you signing on for?

[00:13:32]>> Able-bodied seaman.

[00:13:34]>> All right. $30 a month. I'll sign here and make your mark.

[00:13:37]He writes fine, just like a girl.

[00:13:40]>> $30 a month and pound. Sign here and make your mark.

[00:13:45]>> $30 a month a pound. Sign here and make your mark. $30 a month. Sign here and make your mark.

[00:13:51]>> $30 a month.

[00:13:52]>> How soon we sail, Captain?

[00:13:53]>> Oh, you're anxious to sail, eh?

[00:13:55]>> Sure am.

[00:13:56]>> You just can't wait to tangle with them seals, huh? Down the focus.

[00:14:04]Help [music] yourself, mate. Everybody for yourself.

[00:14:19][music] [music] >> What do I need?

[00:14:27]>> You're going to like this old folk.

[00:14:28]>> I'm glad to be on it.

[00:14:35]and [music] God.

[00:14:41][music] [music] >> Hey, you. That's my bunk [music] and the things within it.

[00:14:56]>> Those are my things in there. Now, >> listen, I always want a bunk by the ladder. I'm magic, please. Go ahead.

[00:15:03][music] You move.

[00:15:08]>> Maybe I'll run better later next trip.

[00:15:11]>> Oh, shut up.

[00:15:17][music] >> Where is an old 40 acre? You'll mind your own business. Keep the mouth closed.

[00:15:23]>> How's the farm?

[00:15:30]>> [music] >> What's that? A Bible?

[00:15:39]>> No, but I got a Bible if you want one.

[00:15:40]>> What's this about, James?

[00:15:42]>> No, it's about men. Darwin's origin of species.

[00:15:45]>> For heaven's sake.

[00:15:48]>> Hey, mate. We got a professor aboard.

[00:15:50]>> Give me that book.

[00:15:51]>> You ain't going to be tough with your learning, are you?

[00:15:53]>> Give me that book.

[00:15:54]>> Hey, Victor. Come >> [music] >> on.

[00:16:10][music] That's something you won't get out of books. Why don't you leave the boy alone?

[00:16:26]Let's finish the game.

[00:16:29]Uh 300 23.

[00:16:32]>> Good.

[00:16:36][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Shields ahead.

[00:17:01][music] >> [music] >> Somehow it doesn't seem right. Killing these poor innocent seals only to get a fur coat for someday. Who's doing it for days? We're doing it for dough.

[00:17:27]>> You mean we're doing it for dough to put fur on, babe?

[00:17:31]>> Right. Well, I got one down in New Orleans and I'm going to marry you right after this trip. We're going to have plenty of kids, too.

[00:17:37]>> That's right, Vick.

[00:17:38]>> Yeah. The trouble is you'll never get past the first saloon.

[00:17:42]>> Not this trip. Boy, I'm going to save every sin I make this man.

[00:17:45]>> Yeah, like old Tom. He's always going to buy a bomb.

[00:17:50]>> You mind your own business. Shut your big mouth.

[00:17:53]>> Yeah. Well, leave the old man alone.

[00:18:04]>> Hey, come in.

[00:18:11]Oh, land lover greenhorn.

[00:18:15]Hey, London.

[00:18:18]>> What'd you do with that wet stone?

[00:18:19]>> I left it out.

[00:18:21]>> Forget it. Will this knife mine on straight with Seal's eyelash?

[00:18:30]>> I'm going to slip a seal on Jack's punk.

[00:18:32]Don't nobody say nothing. We're going to have a rip roaring time.

[00:18:49]Hey, where you going with that?

[00:18:50]>> She's got her dates, man. Don't nobody say nothing.

[00:19:04]Pretty soon this dirty sealing business will be finished. Then we'll be heading for Yokohama.

[00:19:10]>> You ain't never been there, have you, Jack?

[00:19:12]>> And what's it like?

[00:19:13]>> Just imagine what's here with a flock of geisha girls swarming all around.

[00:19:18]>> Geisha girls, huh?

[00:19:19]>> Just like any other girl. Only better in some respects.

[00:19:22]>> That sure sounds great. I wish it would happen soon.

[00:19:26]>> It'll be soon enough.

[00:19:28]You got an experience coming that you'll never forget. Never.

[00:19:33]>> Sure sounds wonderful.

[00:20:11]Looks like the kid turned the tables on you. The joke is on you.

[00:20:28]Better get out of here until he cools off.

[00:20:41]>> [music] >> All right. [music] [music] All right.

[00:21:07]>> [music] >> down.

[00:21:33]Head up, Jack.

[00:21:42][music] You leave me alone. You leave me alone.

[00:22:05]>> Now you leave me alone. You leave me alone. You leave me alone.

[00:22:14]Why don't you turn in and get some sleep?

[00:22:16]>> I just want to set something down.

[00:22:20][music] >> Not a man, but a beast. A wolf. A sea wolf.

[00:22:29][music] And that's what we are. But it's the sea that makes us that way, son. [music] Cooped up here like a lot of animals, doing the same thing day after day, thinking the same things night after night.

[00:22:44]No wife, no kids, nothing. Just dreams.

[00:22:50]Pretty soon we'll be back where we started from. And then you'll see.

[00:22:54][music] The big pay will go in a night and the dreams will go in a night, too.

[00:23:00]Then we'll sign on again and it'll be the same thing all over.

[00:23:09]Not me. I'm going to be a writer.

[00:23:12]>> [music] >> What are you going to write about?

[00:23:17]Oh, >> about all this, I guess. [music] Only sometimes I worry about words.

[00:23:24][music] I don't know enough about words.

[00:23:27]Well, keep digging, kid. They'll come to you. And when they do, weave them. Make everyone counter.

[00:23:37]I don't know anything about writing stories, but it seems to me it ought to be something like [music] well like making a good net. Make every spring and every knot mean [music] something. When you got them together, make them hold.

[00:23:55]Make them strong.

[00:23:57][music] I hardly ever went to school. [music] There's so much I want to learn.

[00:24:06]Well, keep that for kid.

[00:24:09][music] Just steer a straight course.

[00:24:13]Keep that slush light burning. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Good morning.

[00:24:44]>> Good morning. Good morning.

[00:25:10]>> [clears throat] >> I spent a pleasant evening going over your short story compositions.

[00:25:15]As usual, I have selected examples from the submissions and as usual, the author shall remain anonymous.

[00:25:23]So if the shoe fits, you can hide your constonation behind a poker face.

[00:25:29]The two stories I've selected represent the extremes in writing. One is fraud, an attempt at whimsy that evaporates into thin air. The other is raw, almost brutal to the point of unbelief.

[00:25:43]In other words, one of you have tickled a cloud with a feather, and the other has battered good taste with a sledgehammer.

[00:25:52]I shall read from the service.

[00:25:56]Penelopey nibbled at her bong bong. Her thoughts skipped from nothing to nothing. She was in the pink blue haze.

[00:26:04]Her mama wafted in and blended with the nothingness. She seemed desperately worried. Penelopey she breathed. Have you seen my thimble?

[00:26:15]This made a profound impression on me.

[00:26:18]I immediately stopped reading and went back to my police gazette.

[00:26:24]I now come to a sledgehammer.

[00:26:27]Go on, he advised her. Pull the trigger and kill a man. Spatter his brains on the floor and slap a hole in him the size of your fist. That's what killing a man means.

[00:26:38]>> Excuse me, Professor Hillyard, but since you've made me a horrible example, would you mind discussing my story a little bit?

[00:26:44]>> Not at all. Not at all. Well, sir, just what is it that's so wrong with my writing?

[00:26:50]>> Well, boil down, I should say, too much imagination, too much exaggeration.

[00:26:56]After all, you know, London, slap a hole in him the size of a man's fist is I saw it happen in a joint in Singapore. You saw it happen.

[00:27:06]Well, perhaps I shouldn't have brought it up.

[00:27:10]>> You see, Professor Hillyard, I've only written about what I saw. It seems to me there's nothing wrong in writing about life and truth.

[00:27:17]>> But do you think you will get very far writing about poverty, cruelty, brutality?

[00:27:23]>> It's my experience that they exist, sir.

[00:27:25]And if I could put them down on paper so people would think about them and try to destroy him, then I'm doing something.

[00:27:32]>> Ah, now we're coming to it. Do you want to be a writer or a crusader?

[00:27:38]>> Well, I don't know if I'm capable of being either.

[00:27:42]I knew when I came here that I was different from the rest of you, but that didn't stop me. Your entrance exams almost did, but I crammed myself with what I needed to get by. I knew that I had to dig harder than the next fellow because I'm rough and barren ground. But sir, I've watched the Chinese cut terraces into a rocky hillside and patiently wait for the rain to wash down silt so things could be planted and made to grow. And the way I felt that I was like that, that with a little help, I could make the things grow that are inside of me.

[00:28:13]I learned that a strong back wouldn't take me half as far as a good head if I could develop one. That's why I came here.

[00:28:22]But, Professor Hillyard, if my great fault lies in writing about what I know and what I've seen, then I'm afraid it's a fault that can't be corrected here.

[00:28:32]I'm sure you didn't intend to ridicule me, sir. Perhaps a trick of yours to make me think.

[00:28:37]Well, sir, the trick is working.

[00:28:41]Thank you, Professor Hig.

[00:28:55]You have just witnessed an unusual display. Unusual in that we so seldom meet with it today. the uncommon thing called courage.

[00:29:10]>> I would suggest that the rest of you do not try to emulate it. It takes a lot of uh intestinal fortitude for which Mr. London undoubtedly has another word.

[00:29:38]Dad. Dad, darling, what's wrong? You in trouble?

[00:29:42]>> No, Mommy Jenny. I sent for you to help me pack and store some things.

[00:29:45]>> Pack and store? What are you talking about?

[00:29:49]>> I'm going away, Mommy Jenny. I don't know when I'll be back.

[00:29:52]>> Oh, quit being foolish. What about your schooling? What about your writing?

[00:29:58]>> There goes most of it.

[00:29:59]>> You You mean you burn in all them stories you done wrote >> and rewrote Manny Jenn? Not all of them, though. I'm saving some. And one of these days when I'm successful, I'll dig them up out of this trunk and dust them off and send them to the same editor who are turning them down now.

[00:30:17]They'll buy them when I'm famous and right to tell me how good they are.

[00:30:20]>> But Jay, you got me all mixed up. First you sweat and you grub and you work yourself sick so as you can go to school and learn to right just like that and say you're going away. Where are you going?

[00:30:34]>> In the Yukon. Mommy Jenny.

[00:30:36]>> Yukon.

[00:30:37]Where is that?

[00:30:39]>> Up north in Alaska.

[00:30:41]>> What are you going up there for?

[00:30:43]>> To get some money. Mommy Jenny has been a goal strike and with a little luck I can hit it and I won't have to worry. I can sit tight and study and read and write what I want to write and not what a lot of editors and professors expect me to write.

[00:30:57]>> But but how do you know you can do better up there than you can do here?

[00:31:00]And how are you so sure you ain't biting off more than you can chew?

[00:31:05]>> I got as much chance as the next fellow.

[00:31:08][music] You don't understand, Mary, Jenny. I I just can't stay around here and be cramped between the jaws of a vice. [music] I've got to get out. I've got to get away.

[00:31:16]Oh, I just wish I could be sure you wasn't jumping yourself out of the frying pan into the fire.

[00:31:25]It's so easy to do, Jack. [music] But there's very few people that can jump out of the fire back in the sand again. Nothing could be as bad as the fire that's burning inside of me now. It's trying to burn [music] through. It's got to burn.

[00:31:43]Someday, mammy Jenny, maybe you'll know what I mean.

[00:31:47]Someday [music] maybe a lot of people will know what I mean.

[00:31:54][music] [music] Heat. Heat.

[00:32:10][music] [music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> There's that 20. Make it 50 more.

[00:32:56][music] And 100. [music] That's not too much.

[00:33:07]We call 200 more.

[00:33:10]All that. [music] Come in, Charlie.

[00:33:16][music] >> Oh, I a stranger.

[00:33:19]>> Fine. How are you?

[00:33:20]>> Finding hope to your best girl?

[00:33:22]>> No, just ching down an idea. It's a sour over there bing his fool head off. It's all wrapped up in rabbit's feet.

[00:33:29]>> That's lukewarm.

[00:33:42]I'll buy it. Hey, wait. Freda, I just want to claim we're a million bucks.

[00:33:46]Imagine that cyborg's trying to bust me out of a pair of dudes.

[00:33:50]>> Come on, baby. I'll buy you the joint.

[00:33:51]>> Oh, I'm busy. Can't you see?

[00:33:53]>> Well, don't give me that now. Look, rabbits.

[00:33:56]>> You promised me a silver one.

[00:33:57]>> Let me go.

[00:33:58]>> You heard what she said, didn't you some other time? [music] >> What happened?

[00:34:04]>> What you about?

[00:34:07]Good thing I blocked that.

[00:34:08]>> Oh, what's the difference? Come on. I just made a million bucks. Everybody's the bar.

[00:34:16]>> By the character. [music] >> Hey, where are you from?

[00:34:22]>> California.

[00:34:23]You from Spain?

[00:34:25]>> Uh-uh. From Greece.

[00:34:27]>> Oh, >> the Isisles of Greece. The isles of Greece.

[00:34:31]>> The burning safo. Love the same.

[00:34:34]>> You know your virus.

[00:34:37]>> Hey, what's the name?

[00:34:38]>> Father.

[00:34:40]>> Father from Athens.

[00:34:43]Freda, do you remember these famous lines?

[00:34:46]Oh, mate of Athens, there we part. Give, oh, give me back my heart.

[00:34:53]Why don't you stay here for a while?

[00:34:56]We're stopped. We could have a great time together with Byron and Sherry.

[00:35:02]Well, >> maybe I will.

[00:35:15]See who that is.

[00:35:20]>> It's Taco.

[00:35:21]>> Hello. You got a minute?

[00:35:22]>> Where have you been all day?

[00:35:24]>> Well, I got an idea last night from what you would tell me about that mass.

[00:35:28]>> Excuse me. I got an idea last night from what you would tell me about that mass ball and I wrote a story about it. Of course, it's still rough, but I think I caught something of you in it. I'm going to call it the squirmer of women.

[00:35:40]>> Hey, that doesn't sound bad.

[00:35:41]>> Well, here it goes.

[00:35:46]Freda was a Greek girl. At least she purported to be Greek. Her furs were the most magnificent from Chilkoot to St. Michael.

[00:35:53]>> Oh, that's all we're doing in a bit, isn't it?

[00:35:56]>> And her jewels were the envy of every woman.

[00:36:00]>> Ready, Miss Below.

[00:36:01]>> All right.

[00:36:11][music] >> Are you going to come and hear my number?

[00:36:13]>> Sure. I want to fix this first.

[00:36:25]Oh my god.

[00:36:48]What's all the excitement?

[00:36:49]>> Gold spike. Biggest denso. Where else?

[00:36:51]80 miles from here.

[00:37:21]Where are you going?

[00:37:22]>> There's been a gold strike 80 mi north of here.

[00:37:24]>> Oh, but you're not going, are you?

[00:37:26]>> Well, sure I am.

[00:37:27]>> Oh, listen to me, Taco. You haven't got a chance out there. [music] I know this, you convenience. You will mock in the grassroots till your heart breaks. till you of scurvy on the trail.

[00:37:39]>> I know, but >> didn't leave me. [music] In the end, the winner is a loser. All the money comes here. It stays here right here on Dawson.

[00:37:49][music] >> Thanks, Freda.

[00:37:52]Listen, I don't think I'm cut out for this stuff.

[00:37:55]>> Oh, ideals.

[00:37:58]Listen, I gave up a million bucks for you last night. Doesn't that mean anything to you?

[00:38:01]>> Everything beautiful. [music] I'll think of you on the trail for you.

[00:38:07][music] Byron and Shelly under the stars.

[00:38:13]I wish I was back here with [music] you.

[00:38:19][music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat.

[00:38:55]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Buck, where does all that snow come from? And why snow a man in all winter? Keep him from his purpose. [music] Frozen handicap.

[00:39:36]See, there's an idea for you. A man commits a crime, evades the police, and escapes in the Yukon. It gets snowed in and spends the whole winter in solitary confinement.

[00:39:47]Oh, don't like it, huh? Not [music] good.

[00:39:52]Maybe you're right. [music] Well, let's light the lamp and spend a cozy evening working. [music] >> [music] >> Now, if you're a good fellow, I'll let you in on the last two chapters I wrote.

[00:40:18]Remember where we left off last night?

[00:40:20][music] Right in the middle of the big fight. But listen to this.

[00:40:25]In vain, Buck stroke to sink his teeth in the neck of the big white dog. Fang clashed Fang [music] and lips were cut and bleeding, but Buck could not penetrate his enemy's guard. Time and time again, he tried for the snow white throat [music] where life bubbled near to the surface.

[00:40:41]When life bubbled near to the surface, [music] not a bad phrase, then what do you say?

[00:40:49][music] Hey, you [ __ ] wake up. [music] Aren't you even interested in hearing about yourself?

[00:41:02]>> [music] >> You little lazy dog.

[00:41:08][music] Where did you get that terrible start?

[00:41:15]That must have ripped you wide open.

[00:41:17][music] What a life you must have left. But if you could only speak what story you could tell. [music] What a collaborator you'd be.

[00:41:34]>> [music] >> Thank you, Mr. Red. There's only one little point with the London.

[00:41:41]>> Well, I'm not awfully keen about it.

[00:41:43]>> Oh, what's that? The title you've chosen, the call of the wild. Why?

[00:41:47]That's a wonderful title. It's the whole idea of the story, sir. I wouldn't change it for the world. A dog reverting to the primitive just as a human being under hardship and brutality reverts to the wild.

[00:41:57]>> Well, it's your baby. I'm only the godfather.

[00:42:01]>> I'd like to change it for you, Mr. Brent, but that's its name. It's bornless.

[00:42:06]>> All right, Lord. Let's use it. Oh, should we go? [music] Sometime you must tell me how it was born. Writing like that doesn't come out of nowhere.

[00:42:17]>> It came out of the Yukon.

[00:42:18]>> And unless I miss my guess, it's going to mark a milestone. American letters.

[00:42:21]>> A story about a dog.

[00:42:23]>> A dog? Huh?

[00:42:24]>> Here you are, Mr. B.

[00:42:25]>> Thank you, Jenny.

[00:42:26]>> That's what it's about, sir.

[00:42:27]>> It's about life. You said so yourself.

[00:42:34]>> Wouldn't surprise me if the critics hailed you as a rugged Kipling of this country. Kip?

[00:42:38]>> He's always been my idol. He was mine, too, until, well, quite recently.

[00:43:00]Charmian.

[00:43:02]>> Why hello, Mr. Brand.

[00:43:04]>> Well, you two must know each other. Of course.

[00:43:06]>> No, I'm afraid not.

[00:43:07]>> Let me introduce you. Mr. Charmian Kitridge and my favorite author, Mr. Jack London.

[00:43:11]>> How do you do, Miss Kitrich?

[00:43:13]>> Oh, how do you do? I'll see you later, my friend.

[00:43:20]>> Wow. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] >> Hello, Mr. [ __ ] >> Pardon? Did you wish to see someone?

[00:43:53]>> You must excuse me for trailing you here, but I had to ask you an important question that it just couldn't wait.

[00:43:58]>> I can imagine why you're really here. I want to apologize to you for >> apologize. Yes. I I was in such a hurry to to I'm afraid I was a little abrupt on the street, just abrupt.

[00:44:16]I'm glad you didn't notice it, but I have to get to work. But I'm happy you gave me the chance to explain that I didn't snub you purposely.

[00:44:25]>> Of course you didn't.

[00:44:30]>> Why did you snub me purposely?

[00:44:33]>> But I assure you, I didn't. You snubbed me purposely.

[00:44:35]>> Believe me, Mr. London, I didn't.

[00:44:37]>> Purposely.

[00:44:38]>> But everyone says you're going to be a gold mine to the frame. I wouldn't dare snub you. What? What would Mr. Brett say?

[00:44:44]>> Purposely.

[00:44:45]>> Mr. London, if you're not going to believe me, pardon me, Miss Gippage.

[00:44:50]Mr. Brett wants to see you right away.

[00:44:53]And may I offer a couple of words of advice?

[00:44:56]>> What?

[00:44:56]>> Don't go.

[00:44:58]>> No, no. You stay here. Let me go. I'll explain. Tell him tell him it's all right as far as I'm concerned.

[00:45:02]>> Thank you, Mr. London. But I happen to be quite capable of taking care of my own affairs.

[00:45:57]Well, do you usually read what you find on other people's desks?

[00:46:02]>> I have no compunction about reading my own manuscripts, but I do wish you'd consult me before making additions.

[00:46:08]>> Additions? Yes. For instance, once in 10,000 times a manuscript appears from an unknown author which is a masterpiece. The Call of the Wild by Jack London makes a reader's life worth living at last. Thank you, Mr. PS.

[00:46:26]Unless you want to lose your favorite reader, never introduce me to Mr. London. If he's anything like his book, my heart will stand still when I meet him.

[00:46:37]>> [music] >> I I wish you'd go.

[00:46:44]>> Did Mr. Bret rag you over the cold?

[00:46:47]>> No. No, it isn't, Mr. Brett. It isn't you. Maybe it's myself. I don't seem to be to know what I'm saying, do I? I I guess I'm babbling.

[00:46:58]Mr. London, I assure you I'm not this sort of person at all.

[00:47:03]>> I don't know what kind of a person you are, this kid. [music] But I do know you're a person.

[00:47:14][music] [music] >> I don't think that horse likes me.

[00:47:29]>> He doesn't like the way you ride him.

[00:47:31]Well, I don't like the way he rides me.

[00:47:33]>> You know, I don't get it. When I was poor, I rode the rod because I had to.

[00:47:38]Now I ride a horse and I don't have to.

[00:47:40]Is that supposed to be an improvement?

[00:47:43]>> But Dad, it it wouldn't matter if you were rich or poor, obscure, or famous.

[00:47:48]You'll [music] always be writing somewhere. You see, you just wrote the books. I read them. I think I know more about you than you know about yourself.

[00:47:57]You're not like other men.

[00:47:58]>> Well, that's not true.

[00:47:59]>> You should read the works of Jack London sometime and find out about yourself.

[00:48:04]>> No. An ordinary man is content to stay put. But you've got something in you that won't let you [music] rest.

[00:48:11]>> Well, it's just that I hate traps.

[00:48:14]When I was young, I thought poverty was the only trap, and I swore I'd get out of it. Now I find that money can be just as much of a trap. Words can be a trap, too. Have you ever thought of all the people who have [music] been caught in hell by words like honor, duty, and love?

[00:48:30]>> [music] >> You mean that you think love is a trap, too?

[00:48:34]>> No, I I didn't mean that. I mean that >> I understand. [music] You're afraid for me, aren't you? You're afraid that I'll be the one to become a tra Don't be foolish. I thought you understood about women. Don't you remember? Your own heroine and daughter of the snows.

[00:48:51][music] A girl who makes her own way.

[00:48:52]Daring, courageous, loyal, and understanding.

[00:48:56]She loved a man without that terrible possessment. Yes.

[00:49:01]>> You're like that.

[00:49:03]>> I'd like to be.

[00:49:05]Charmian, when a man and woman meet who were meant for each other, it's like a ship new launched rushing to the sea. The sliding waves rebel, [music] but neither seen a ship hear them as they rush into each other's lives.

[00:49:22][music] >> [music] >> Come right in.

[00:49:34]Happy new year.

[00:49:35]>> Happy new year. Come right in.

[00:49:38]>> Happy new year, Mary.

[00:49:39]>> Happy new year to you.

[00:49:42]>> Here's [music] a special happy new year for you, Mary.

[00:49:44]>> Oh, thank you, Captain Alice. Thank you.

[00:49:47]But but ain't you a little mixed up with Christmas?

[00:49:50]>> Oh, this is a different kind of happy new year, Mary J. It comes only once every hundred years.

[00:49:55]>> Happy new century, you mean?

[00:49:56]>> That's right.

[00:49:58]>> Oh, I can't wait to see what I got.

[00:50:04]>> That's beautiful, Captain Alice. Just beautiful.

[00:50:09]>> Now, if you're good, I'll be back with the mate to that in a 100 years.

[00:50:14][laughter] >> Oh, no, sir. Captain Alan, in a 100 years, we both going to be wearing golden slippers. I hope.

[00:50:27][music] >> But gentlemen, there's never been a century like it. When you think of the progress we've made in culture, in industry, the comforts we enjoy, electric lights, the telephone, >> and don't forget those pulseless carriages.

[00:50:42]>> A friend of mine has one, one longer, and I swear we must have been whizzing along at 20 m an hour at least.

[00:50:50]>> No doubt about it, Jack. Civilization's darn near reached the apex.

[00:50:53]>> The millennium, huh?

[00:50:54]>> Not far from it. [music] >> Well, the way I see it, we've only got one foot out of the dark ages. Machines are great, sure, but they only make more things more quickly. There's nothing spiritual about them. You [music] can't change what's in a man's mind or in his heart. You can brag all you want about culture and [music] progress. But what bucks big in a man's mind today is materialism, money. Money out of machines and money out of everything.

[00:51:18]That's what rules this world today.

[00:51:20]greed and selfishness in people and in nations. And before we get through, instead of a millennium, we'll be ringing in a century of tyrants.

[00:51:28]>> Oh, Jack.

[00:51:31]Right. [music] >> Good evening, man.

[00:51:34]>> Good evening, Mr. Brad. Happy New Year.

[00:51:36]>> Happy New Year to you.

[00:51:37]>> How do you do, Mr. Brett? Glad you could come.

[00:51:39]>> Hello, Dad. Jack, I took the privilege of bringing a friend of mine, Mr. Cler Maxwell.

[00:51:43]>> How do you do, Mr. Maxwell?

[00:51:44]>> Mr. London, I've been wanting very much to meet you.

[00:51:46]>> Well, thank you, sir. Oh, I'll take those naming. Now you can go back to your decorator.

[00:51:51]>> Yes. You're having quite a shindig, aren't you?

[00:51:53]>> Yes. Why don't you go in? You know everyone.

[00:51:54]>> Jack, Mr. Maxwell would like a word with you privately. Something rather interesting.

[00:51:58]>> Oh, >> you'll forgive my barging in on your party like this.

[00:52:03]>> That's quite all right, sir. Glad you could come. Sit down.

[00:52:06]>> No, thank you, sir. I'll I'll stick to these.

[00:52:08]>> What I want to talk to you about won't wait.

[00:52:10]>> Oh, what is it?

[00:52:13]>> How would you like to cover the bore war? My paper.

[00:52:16]>> The Boore War?

[00:52:18]>> Yes.

[00:52:20]There's nothing I'd rather do, but I've never done any newspaper reporting, much less war reporting.

[00:52:25]>> Very modest, Mr. Runland. Was I've read your stories. You have the gift of setting down what you see. That, in my opinion, is the quintessence of good reporting.

[00:52:34]>> Oh, thanks. Thanks very much.

[00:52:37]>> You'll have to leave immediately to London. From there, you go to South Africa. What will you say?

[00:52:42]>> I'd like to, but can you excuse me a moment?

[00:52:50]>> [music] [music] >> I just went off and I [music] [music] >> [music] >> What is it, dear?

[00:53:25]>> Well, it's quite a surprise. I hardly know how to tell you. Mr. Matchel of the Globe has just made me a very flattering author.

[00:53:32]>> Well, that's wonderful.

[00:53:34]>> Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. See, he wants me to leave right away for South Africa to to cover the bull war. [music] >> What did you tell him? I I didn't tell him anything. [music] >> But you want to go, don't you?

[00:53:50]>> It's out of the question, of course, with me postponing all our plans.

[00:53:54][music] >> We'll have all our lives. This will be great adventure for you. [music] >> But happy [music] Christmas.

[00:54:13]Heat. [music] [music] Heat.

[00:54:34][music] >> [music] >> Heat.

[00:54:46]Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Oh, I That whole cover delivery from Charian. All right.

[00:55:42]Thank you, sir.

[00:55:46]I was talking.

[00:55:48]Here's a letter from Mr. Jack. Return address. Oh, >> he's on his way home. Dude, the 16.

[00:56:02]What the 16? It sure is. Lay out some things, let me tell her. Be careful.

[00:56:15]Mark 9623, please.

[00:56:18]>> Can I line?

[00:56:19]>> Could you please tell me what time does the Cambria get in?

[00:56:23]>> Why the Cambria do 2 hours ago?

[00:56:25]>> Thank you.

[00:56:29][music] >> I would have time to change Mary and Jenny. The broke up 2 hours ago.

[00:56:35]>> For goodness sake. Just give me my cake.

[00:56:38]Yes. And my gloves.

[00:56:39]>> Yes. Oh, don't forget my purse.

[00:56:45]>> Oh, thank you. You're welcome. [music] [music] >> You're as lovely as I knew you'd be, Jack.

[00:57:07]>> [music] [music] >> Oh, Jack.

[00:57:20]>> Oh, Jack. [music] Beautiful.

[00:57:23]>> I got that at a bizaar in Bernari. To tell you the truth, I wasn't going to buy it, but you put up such an awful fuss.

[00:57:29]>> I [music] >> Everywhere I went, you were right there beside me.

[00:57:33]>> Now you're really cute.

[00:57:36]>> [music] >> Nothing will ever take me away from you again. Nothing.

[00:57:41]You still want to marry me.

[00:57:44][music] Tomorrow night we celebrate.

[00:57:57]>> I just sent a batch of that only yesterday to that outlandish place you was at.

[00:58:02]>> Good. Then I won't have to answer them.

[00:58:03][laughter] Mr. J, here's a telegram.

[00:58:07]>> A telegram?

[00:58:08]>> Yes. I just called for you about an hour ago.

[00:58:11]You want these, Mr. J?

[00:58:13]>> No, thanks.

[00:58:16]>> I won't do it. I won't do it. I tell you, I won't go, mmy. Jenny, I won't go.

[00:58:25]>> But this has got to be the last. The past closing time, you would have me license with Mike. We got to settle this first. There's only one way to settle it. I've been telling you all evening.

[00:58:36]Get married and raise a house full of kids.

[00:58:40]Well, how can I do that with a war breaking out? It's our war. We got to take it. But I'm in it. They want me to leave in the morning for Japan. A lot of correspondents are going hair, Fred Palmer, and Richard Harding Davis.

[00:58:59]Well, I've never seen a war. You can live your whole life and never see a war.

[00:59:05]>> Sure. But what beats me is if you're brave enough to face a war, why can't you face her and tell her you're gone?

[00:59:13]Mike, in a war, you got a chance, but with a woman.

[00:59:18]>> Yeah, I know. You lick before you start.

[00:59:22]But I gave her my word of honor. And if you go, you lose her. And if you don't go, you lose the war. That's right.

[00:59:30]That's what I've been telling you all evening. And we're right back where we started.

[00:59:42]>> Nice, Mike. Thanks.

[00:59:45]You've been a big help. Better stay home, Jack, and raise them kids.

[00:59:49]>> Now, don't start that again.

[00:59:58]>> [music] [music] [music] >> Hello.

[01:00:16]>> Hello.

[01:00:17]>> This is a fine way to keep out his date in 3 minutes.

[01:00:21]>> My darling, please don't. [music] >> Could you?

[01:00:24]>> I I was detained.

[01:00:26]>> How? where >> well I I received [music] a telegram from Mr. Maxwell and I had to go see him about it. [music] Can you imagine he wants me to leave for Japan in the morning? [music] >> Japan?

[01:00:41]>> This is a war breaking out with Russia.

[01:00:43][music] >> What did you tell him?

[01:00:46]>> Well, I I told them no. Of course.

[01:00:52]>> And did it take you until 2:00 in the morning to say no? Well, Maxwell is a funny fellow. He he he can't take no like an ordinary person. He kept insisting that this is the chance in my lifetime.

[01:01:07]Wars are getting scarcer and scarcer and marriages are getting commoner and commoner. [music] Well, you can go. It's perfectly obvious I mean nothing to you. Nothing whatsoever.

[01:01:18]>> You mean everything.

[01:01:20]>> It's no use, Jack. If you think I'm going to ruin my life for a man who's blown here and there by every wind of adventure, you're very much mistaken.

[01:01:27][music] [music] I won't let you go.

[01:01:35]Even if I was a little tempted by Maxwell's offer, which I don't admit, you come first. [music] I love you, darling, and I swear I'll never think of leaving you again.

[01:01:50]Huh?

[01:01:52]I say good word.

[01:01:55][music] >> Your bags, Mr. Jack. All packed and ready to go.

[01:02:03][music] >> Of course you're going, darling. Mr. Maxwell tried to get you at my house. I knew all about it. [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> They're suddenly breaking their necks to make us comfortable.

[01:02:56]>> You can have it. Quases and all. What I'd give for a steamed beer and a corn beef sandwich.

[01:03:00]>> Looks like you're going to have it.

[01:03:02]They're concluding peace negotiations right now.

[01:03:04]>> 7,000 mi to Tokyo and nothing to show for it but a nice hot belly for washing rice down with sake.

[01:03:10]>> [laughter] >> You can't tell as long as those skirmishes on the Korean border keep up.

[01:03:14]There's no >> Don't mean a thing, Dick. Just saber rattling to scare the Zar into conceding some point or other.

[01:03:19]>> Maybe.

[01:03:20]>> Well, I'll string along with Davis.

[01:03:22]Russia doesn't want war. That's a cinch.

[01:03:24]And if these boys want peace, why are they sending troops into Korea? Who said they are? I say they are. I was down at the waterfront this morning.

[01:03:46]I'll break it out.

[01:03:48]You know what he's talking about? D. No, I don't get it.

[01:04:06]Say just a minute.

[01:04:08]What's all the excitement?

[01:04:11]I have the pleasure to report that our honorable Navy has just sunk the Russian fleet at Port Arthur.

[01:04:38]I believe they're all here.

[01:04:41]>> I deeply regret that I cannot grant your minister's request that you be allowed to go to the slum at this time.

[01:04:49]Personally, I have no objection, but unfortunately, such permission must come from a higher official than I have the honor to be.

[01:05:00]However, I will use my humble persuation in an effort to make your desires possible.

[01:05:07]We shall arrange a banquet where perhaps you will meet the official who can grant permission for you to go to Korea.

[01:05:14]>> A banquet won't bring us any closer to the front. We're all accredited correspondents, Mr. Hiroshi. All we want to do is get the news and get it back to our paper so the world will know what's going on.

[01:05:25]>> Sometimes it is not practical that the world know what is going on. If for instance the Russians would have known what was going on, there would have been no Port Arthur. We could not have dealt what you call in your country the first punch.

[01:05:42]>> You're a little mixed up, aren't you?

[01:05:43]You mean sneak punch? The idioms of your country are so quaint, young man. I'm sorry. There's nothing I can do at the moment.

[01:06:01]>> Who is that young man?

[01:06:03]>> One of our new writers. Very brilliant and very popular.

[01:06:06]>> Yes. It will be very interesting to follow his career.

[01:06:18]Hey Jake, what are we going to do about this?

[01:06:20]>> Well, there's no use of arguing about it. We're in the same predicament as the girl who was told you could go swimming but not to go near the water.

[01:06:26]>> Well, I'm going near the water. I don't care what that little saw off run says.

[01:06:29]Permission or no permission? I'm going to Korea.

[01:06:32]>> Jack, that's being plain bullheaded.

[01:06:33]I've been in the game too long. You can't get out of Tokyo without official sanction.

[01:06:37]>> Dick, [music] I'll bet you $100 I can get to the front.

[01:06:40]>> I'll bet you $100 you won't. You're on the boat. Good luck.

[01:06:52]>> Good luck, Jack. [music] [music] [music] Yeah. A lot of money. I want to go in the boat. You want to see?

[01:07:12]You take a lot of money.

[01:07:17]You have the money.

[01:07:20]The LCH [music] [music] There lighting get busy busy This [music] >> monkey. [music] >> Look, I' I' I'd like to get passage. I want those sand pants across the Yellow Sea.

[01:08:13]>> No, can't go.

[01:08:14]>> I paid plenty money. [music] >> Sand. No.

[01:08:22]Oh, [music] [music] heat.

[01:08:45][music] >> [music] >> Hello.

[01:09:02][music] Heat.

[01:09:10][music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat.

[01:09:42][music] [music] [music] [music] Heat. Heat.

[01:10:05][music] [music] La [music] [music] [music] finger.

[01:10:45]>> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[01:11:02][music] >> [music] >> Let me see that, please.

[01:11:20]>> I'm an American war correspondent.

[01:11:22]>> Yes. But this is a forbidden zone and pictures sometimes fall into the wrong hand.

[01:11:32]Wonderful.

[01:11:33]very fast lens I imagine.

[01:11:36]Let me congratulate you.

[01:11:39]>> Let me congratulate you on your knowledge of my language. You must have spent some time in America.

[01:11:45]>> Yes, although I learned my English at Oxford. I am Captain Taka.

[01:11:51]>> Glad to know you, Captain. My name is Jack London.

[01:11:54]>> Oh, I've read some of your books. Very good, too.

[01:11:58]>> Oh, thank you very much. Now you know I'm not a spy. Where are you going?

[01:12:04]>> To the front. If I can persuade someone to give me permission.

[01:12:08]>> Perhaps I can arrange it. Meanwhile, it will be a great honor to have you as my guest. Come on.

[01:12:27]Better try some of this excellent caviar. It will do much for your appetite.

[01:12:32]No, thank you. This is fine.

[01:12:39]This is a nice cozy place you have here, Captain.

[01:12:42]>> I believe in comfort, Mr. London.

[01:12:46]Especially when our enemies are precious enough to possess good taste.

[01:12:52]As we go deeper toward Russia, I expect to add to my collection. And >> is this part of your collection?

[01:13:00]>> No, Mr. London.

[01:13:02]This is a game we've devised which has become very popular in my country. We call it denund literally that means patience but you might even call it destiny.

[01:13:19]Now this little contrivance here I call Yongen the prophet since it foreshadows coming events.

[01:13:34]Interesting is it not?

[01:13:36]>> Yes. Very interesting captain.

[01:13:38]>> You see Mr. London this is not only the rising sun. It is also a wheel. the center or hub of which is Japan.

[01:13:51]That's a very unusual map you have there, Captain Tanaka.

[01:13:55]>> Yes, our eventual sphere of influence.

[01:13:59]Here, I shall show you.

[01:14:14]You will note that the spokes radiate in all directions from the hub from which they naturally emanate and to which they must converge.

[01:14:25]Now, if you will be good enough to watch the map, I shall explain more fully.

[01:14:34]Here is the theater of our present operations. But tomorrow, as you shall see, we will have crossed the Yellow River. And soon we'll have all of Korea, a stepping stone to Manuria, Manuria. And then Mongolia, a land of milk and honey, 200 million tons of timber, a billion tons of iron, 2 billion tons of coal, enough to last Japan for 70 years. We'll be stronger then, able to move both east and west.

[01:15:16]>> You're out to gobble up all Asia.

[01:15:18]>> Oh, yes. Though not at once.

[01:15:23]First, we must conquer China.

[01:15:32]It sounds a little bit incredible, but entirely logical, I assure you.

[01:15:38]Oh. or won't you be seated Mr. Lander?

[01:15:40]Thank you. You see, a policy of peace is quite impossible for Japan. England can afford to pursue peace and develop trade relations because she has India and Australia to supply her with food stuff.

[01:15:56]So can America because of South America and Canada. But in Japan, our food supply decreases in proportion to our population. You understand? If we merely hope to develop trade, we shall be defeated by England and America. In the end, we will get nothing. That is a mathematical certainty. We've got to control China.

[01:16:23]But in order to control China, we will have to crush your country and England.

[01:16:35]That may take many years, of course, 50, 100 perhaps, but it has all been carefully planned scientifically.

[01:16:45]The rising sun has a destiny. Her expansion is inevitable.

[01:16:51]This the taking of Korea is only the first step, the first act of the drama.

[01:16:57]But the play is on, the curtain is up, and it will ring down, you'll see, upon a Japanese world.

[01:17:10]>> Why are you telling me all this?

[01:17:15]>> Why not?

[01:17:17]You'll not believe it.

[01:17:23]>> [music] >> We scoop the whole world. No other newspaper has it. Not even a European paper. He knew it. Wait a minute. Wait a minute, boys. If you want to hear some good reporting, listen to this.

[01:17:35]>> I [music] knew he'd do it. I knew it.

[01:17:37]Isn't it wonderful? Read it, Mr. B.

[01:17:40]>> Jump the gun on it. Now, he said he do it. Just a cover reporter at [music] You know what I suggested? Yes. that we draw up a petition to the Japanese government protesting, demanding that London be altered back from the front or else that we be granted instant permission to leave.

[01:17:58]>> I second that idea.

[01:17:59]>> We'll all sign it. You write it out, David. I'm as mortified as the rest of you celebrated war correspondents being scooped by a novice. As a matter of fact, I should feel worse having lost $100 to boot. We all had the same chance to get to Korea at the risk of our lives. To my mind, we should draw up a commendation to a very courageous moose man.

[01:18:20]>> I suppose you're right. If you look at it from that point of view, >> I suppose a toast. As a matter of fact, I read in one of London's books. Here's to the man on the trail this night. May his grub hold out. May his matches never mismire.

[01:18:45]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> You're under arrest.

[01:19:15]What for?

[01:19:18][music] [music] Take off of hat.

[01:19:44]>> Oh, sorry.

[01:19:50]How did you get to Korea?

[01:19:53]>> By sand across the Yellow Sea.

[01:19:58]Chimopo, >> how did you get past Chimopo?

[01:20:02]>> Through the courtesy of Captain Tanaka.

[01:20:05]>> Tanaka.

[01:20:06]>> Tanaka.

[01:20:08]>> Do not believe you.

[01:20:09]>> Well, why don't you ask Captain Tanaka?

[01:20:11]>> Lakasi.

[01:20:13]>> Why did you take pictures in Nakitaki?

[01:20:16]>> H >> Why did you take pictures in Nakitaki?

[01:20:21]>> I was never in Nakitaki.

[01:20:28]Japanese custom different from American.

[01:20:32]Therefore, you must not tell any lies.

[01:20:37]>> General is all true. Good. Good. You stay in the jail.

[01:20:56]Daddy [music] [music] [music] God's >> [music] [music] [music] >> All they want is water. Why don't you give it to him?

[01:21:42]No. You [music] Hey, wait.

[01:21:54][music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [music] Heat. Heat.

[01:22:38][music] [music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Hey.

[01:23:29]Heat. Heat.

[01:23:30][music] [music] [music] >> [screaming] >> I know.

[01:24:06]>> Come on. Get off.

[01:24:13]Heat.

[01:24:22][music] [music] Heat.

[01:24:38]>> [music] [music] >> What? Mr. Focia. Good morning, your excellent. Any news?

[01:24:57]>> Always news. Very good news.

[01:25:01]>> Oh, about that writer's friend of yours, Jack London.

[01:25:04]>> Yes. No wonder he was so anxious to get to the front.

[01:25:07]>> Why?

[01:25:08]>> He's in jail in Finan. [music] He turned out to be a Russian spy.

[01:25:18][music] >> Cable blank, please.

[01:25:26][music] >> [music] >> The Japanese ambassador, Mr. Takah, [music] you wish to see me, Mr. President, [music] [music] Kindly inform me on the car that I demand the immediate release of Mr. Jack London. [music] I'll convey your suggestion, Mr. President. [music] General Fuji said he his most honorable ancestor me very sorry too. Sorry you have been detained. He say he find out you very truthful young man.

[01:26:49]>> He say our most honorable country and your most honorable country. Always a most honorable friend.

[01:27:00]>> Well, that's just Andy. Now tell General Fuji to give me my honorable camera.

[01:27:14]I got heat.

[01:27:38]>> [music] [music] >> Japanese peril the brown beast asiatic dream great writing Jack great heavens man you don't expect me to publish anything >> why not >> because you're known for good common sense for hard facts for the truth. Who do you suppose is going to swallow this stuff?

[01:28:06]>> A big truth is more difficult to swallow than a big lie. But it doesn't make it any the less the truth. I didn't write these articles for fame or money, Mr. Maxwell. I wrote them because I felt it was my patriotic duty. And it's your duty as a publisher to print them.

[01:28:19]>> I'm sorry, Jack, but I can't for two reasons. First, you've nothing to substantiate the charges you make against the fan.

[01:28:24]>> But I saw it with my own eyes. Japanese treachery, Japanese barbarism. I've told you the hours I spent listening to Tanaka. an army captain, a madman most likely.

[01:28:33]>> Genghask Khan was a madman most likely.

[01:28:35]So was every conqueror down through history.

[01:28:37]>> And second, and most important, Japan in this country of friends. Japan is one of this country's best customers. We do billions of dollars worth of business with her. You insult her at every turn.

[01:28:45]Well, look, you see here, the Japanese race has embarked on a course of conquest, the goal of which no man knows.

[01:28:51]>> That's right. And here again, the headmen of Japan are dreaming ambitiously in the Pionic dream.

[01:28:57]>> I say more. What happened at Port Arthur will happen again someday. Will happen here to us. When the Jets beat the Russians, they conquered the white man for the first time in history. And they mean to go on conquering them. Someday the white man's dream bubble of peace with Japan will be punctured. But one country at least won't be surprised.

[01:29:13]That country will be Russia. She was wakened from her dream. We're still dreaming.

[01:29:18]>> Jack, you're cooper. Those sorted off little runs from their papermâé island.

[01:29:22]Why? We could lick them with one hand tied behind us.

[01:29:24]>> Mr. Maxwell, if Jack feels so >> Don't argue with them, Charmian. I'll get this stuff published. I'll yell it from the rooftops. Come along, J.

[01:29:32]>> All right, you old fire brand.

[01:29:34]>> But nobody will believe you.

[01:29:37][music] Little reason. It's not the truth he's worried about. I proved that to him.

[01:29:41]It's money. $2 billion worth of business.

[01:29:44]>> Sure. Sure. L yourself and your little brown customer sneaks up and slits your throat. And he says they won't believe me.

[01:29:53]>> Maybe they won't believe you. Of [music] course, they'll believe, darling. Everything you write, everything you say rings with truth.

[01:30:02]It's real and honest. It's you.

[01:30:05]It's the spirit of Jack London.

[01:30:10]You're that part of me. [music] I knew it when I first met you.

[01:30:15]Remember what I told you about a ship in the sea? I'll always remain. [music] When a man and woman are meant for each other, like the ship do launched, they rush to the sea. The sliding waves rebelled, but neither seen nor ship hidden as they rush into [music] each other's lives.

[01:30:42][music] [music] Yeah. Heat.

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