Wild Geese Calling

1941 film by John Brahm

August 15, 1941 (1941-08-15)

Running time

77 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Wild Geese Calling is a 1941 American drama film directed by John Brahm and starring Henry Fonda, Joan Bennett and Warren William. It was distributed by 20th Century-Fox.^[1] The screenplay was written by Horace McCoy, based on a 1940 novel by Stewart Edward White set during the Alaska Gold Rush.^[2] The music score is by Alfred Newman.

Plot

In the 1890s a lumberjack, John, travels to Alaska from Seattle in search of gold. He marries a dance hall girl named Sally, but soon finds that she was once in love with his best friend, Blackie.

Cast

Henry Fonda as John Murdock
Joan Bennett as Sally Murdock
Warren William as Blackie Bedford
Ona Munson as Clarabella
Barton MacLane as Pirate Kelly
Russell Simpson as Marshal Len Baker
Iris Adrian as Mazie
James C. Morton as Mack
Paul Sutton as Manager
Mary Field as Jennie Delaney
Stanley Andrews as Delaney
Robert Emmett Keane as Ralph - Headwaiter
Adrian Morris as Stout Guide
George Watts as Mush Mahoney
Charles Middleton as Doctor Jed Sloan
George Melford as Foreman
Nestor Paiva as Waiter
Joseph E. Bernard as Waiter
Richard Alexander as Alaskan
Jody Gilbert as Swede

References

^ Fetrow p.577
^ "Wild Geese Calling". www.tcm.com. Retrieved 2020-12-15.

Bibliography

Fetrow, Alan G. Feature Films, 1940-1949: a United States Filmography. McFarland, 1994.

External links

Wild Geese Calling at the TCM Movie Database
Wild Geese Calling at IMDb
Wild Geese Calling at Allmovie

Films directed by John Brahm

Broken Blossoms (1936)
Counsel for Crime (1937)
Penitentiary (1938)
Girls' School (1938)
Let Us Live (1939)
Rio (1939)
Escape to Glory (1940)
Wild Geese Calling (1941)
The Undying Monster (1942)
Tonight We Raid Calais (1943)
Wintertime (1943)
The Lodger (1944)
Guest in the House (1944)
Hangover Square (1945)
The Locket (1946)
The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
Singapore (1947)
The Thief of Venice (1950)
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
Face to Face (1952)
The Diamond Queen (1953)
The Mad Magician (1954)
The Golden Plague (1954)
Special Delivery (1955)
Bengazi (1955)
Hot Rods to Hell (1967)

Darryl F. Zanuck

Producer

Old San Francisco (1927)
The First Auto (1927)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Tenderloin (1928)
The Show of Shows (1929)
Three Faces East (1930)
The Doorway to Hell (1931)
Little Caesar (1931)
Illicit (1931)
The Public Enemy (1931)
The Man Who Played God (1932)
The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
Doctor X (1932)
Life Begins (1932)
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
Three on a Match (1932)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Parachute Jumper (1933)
42nd Street (1933)
The Working Man (1933)
Ex-Lady (1933)
The Bowery (1933)
Blood Money (1933)
Moulin Rouge (1934)
Looking for Trouble (1934)
Born to Be Bad (1934)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
The Mighty Barnum (1934)
Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)
Les Misérables (1935)
Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
Call of the Wild (1935)
Metropolitan (1935)
Thanks a Million (1935)
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)
Professional Soldier (1935)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
It Had to Happen (1936)
A Message to Garcia (1936)
Under Two Flags (1936)
The Road to Glory (1936)
Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)
Pigskin Parade (1936)
Seventh Heaven (1937)
Slave Ship (1937)
Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Wake Up and Live (1937)
Thin Ice (1937)
Lancer Spy (1937)
In Old Chicago (1938)
Happy Landing (1938)
International Settlement (1938)
Kentucky Moonshine
Always Goodbye (1938)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
Just Around the Corner (1938)
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
My Lucky Star (1938)
Submarine Patrol (1938)
Jesse James (1939)
Tail Spin (1939)
Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
The Rains Came (1939)
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Swanee River (1939)
The Little Princess (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Little Old New York (1940)
The Man I Married (1940)
The Return of Frank James (1940)
The Great Profile (1940)
Brigham Young (1940)
Down Argentine Way (1940)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Hudson's Bay (1941)
Tobacco Road (1941)
The Great American Broadcast (1941)
Blood and Sand (1941)
A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
Sex Hygiene (Short) (1942)
To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
This Above All (1942)
Thunder Birds (1942)
The Purple Heart (1944)
Wilson (1944)
Winged Victory (1944)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Fury at Furnace Creek (1948)
The Snake Pit (1948)
Pinky (1949)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
No Way Out (1950)
All About Eve (1950)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
People Will Talk (1951)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
The Egyptian (1954)
The View from Pompey's Head (1955)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
Island in the Sun (1957)
The Sun Also Rises (1957)
The Roots of Heaven (1958)
Crack in the Mirror (1960)
Sanctuary (1961)
The Big Gamble (1961)
The Longest Day (1962)
The Chapman Report (1962)
The Visit (1964)

Writer

as Mark Canfield	The Desired Woman (1927) (story) Maybe It's Love (1930) Baby Face (1933) (story) Crack in the Mirror (1960)
as Melville Crossman	Tenderloin (story) (1928) State Street Sadie (story) (1928) Thanks a Million (story) (1935) A Yank in the R.A.F. (story) (1941) Thunder Birds (original story) (1942) China Girl (story) (1942) The Purple Heart (story) (1944)
as Gregory Rogers	Find Your Man (Rin Tin Tin story) (1924) The Lighthouse by the Sea (Rin Tin Tin story) (1924) Three Weeks in Paris (story, screenplay as Darryl Zanuck) (1925) The Midnight Taxi (story) (1928)
as self	A Broadway Butterfly (1925) Red Hot Tires (1925) Hogan's Alley (1925) The Caveman (scenario) (1926) The Little Irish Girl (adaptation) (1926) The Social Highwayman (1926) Footloose Widows (1926) Across the Pacific (adaptation) (1926) The Better 'Ole (screenplay) (1926) Tracked by the Police (Rin Tin Tin story) (1927) Old San Francisco (1927) The First Auto (story) (1927) Good Time Charley (story) (1927) Noah's Ark (story) (1928) My Man (story) (1928) Hardboiled Rose (story) (1929) Madonna of Avenue A (story) (1929) Say It with Songs (story) (1929) The Life of the Party (1930) Little Caesar (story – uncredited) (1931) The Dark Horse (story) (1932) Lady Killer (story – uncredited) (1933) Folies Bergère de Paris (contributing writer – uncredited) (1935) G Men (story) (1935) This Is My Affair (story – uncredited) (1937) Alexander's Ragtime Band (contributing writer – uncredited) (1938) The Great Profile (story – uncredited) (1940) Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)