Wolf Call

Polly Ann Young and John Carroll get drunk and steal a German shepherd from a pet shop. Carroll's father, Guy Usher -- you can see the family resemblance in their mustaches -- tells him he's going to work, fly up to Radium City and see if the mine there can be made to pay. So Carroll and the dog head off to the land of voyageurs so Carroll can sing love duets with Movita and the dog can get tight with wolves.

Nominally based on the novel by Jack London to avoid paying royalties, this modernized version tries to be all things to all people: ROSE-MARIE and rough-house philosophy and science booster. As a result, of those and its cheap Monogram budget, it seems mildly ridiculous. Fred Jackman Jr's nice location photography around Big Bear Lake was dimmed by a muddy print, and the sound cut out at odd moments.