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starring: Charles Bronson, Catherine Mary Stewart, Marc Singer, Len Cariou, Clive Revilldirected by: Michael Anderson
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302821475
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302821479
Label: Turner Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Entertainment
Release Date: May 20, 1997
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 14843
Studio: Turner Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: April 18, 1993
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Rating:  - We're Still Looking for the Captain
You don't need the summery of Jack London's story about Captain Wolf Larsen aka `'The Sea Wolf' and two survivors of shipwreck Humphrey Van Weyden and Flaxen Brewster. Other reviewers have already done it, so please read them. I only add my feelings about the made-for-TV production, which I think could be better with different casting.
There are two things that I cannot understand about the production. Charles Bronson might be an ideal choice for the Captain if the film had been made ... Read More
Rating: - You need a European actor!
First of all, it takes a European actor to play Larsen. An ex-cowboy like Chuck Bronson with his "howdy-partner" diction just won't do. Larsen is an old-world European, a melancholic Scandinavian, with an angular, Germanic face. Bronson just doesn't cut the mustard. If you don't have a strong European actor to play Larsen, the movie is pretty much doomed, since it's so character-centered.
Rating:  - Bronson, Reeves PLUS Catherine Mary Stewart!!!
This movie is a remake of the 1941 Classic based on the Jack London book of the same name. It is about a sadistic Sea Captain (Bronson) who rules the waves and his ship with an iron fist.This movie has drama, adventure on the High Seas PLUS some romance . What more could you ask for? Sadly , Christopher Reeves and Charles Bronson are no longer with us but they both did leave us with a legacy of very good movies and this is one of them.
Rating: - The Sea Woof...
The Sea Woof... because it's a bit of a dog!
I have the Jack London book of the same name, upon which this film is based and decided to check the film out before I read the book in it's entirety. The film is a typical two and a half star, B grade, tele-movie type drama from 1993. The director has even managed to make 1993 look more like 1983 due to the style of the filming, and the editing is so ham-fisted it telegraphs the ad breaks like you wouldn't believe!
As to the performances, ... Read More
Rating: - Another miscasting of Wolf Larsen . . . yawn.
If Edward G. Robinson was miscast as Wolf Larsen, then Charles Bronson was a miscarriage. In fact, when I saw the previews to this, I thought that Reeves would make a great Wolf Larsen. Little did I know . . .
Who is Wolf Larsen? He is a man with the body of Schwarzenegger and the mind of Hannibal Lecter. As a captain he is up there with Nemo, Ahab, and Blithe. He is Jack London's embodiment of Nietzsche's Superman, a demigod in mind and in body.
London describes him thus:
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