Burning Daylight (TV)

Lockruf des Goldes - German title

Alaska Kid - French title

Lure of Gold – English title

Burning Daylight - English title

A 1975 West German, French, Romanian TV co-production [Tele-München, Technisonor (Munich), ARF (Vienna), Technisonor, ORTF/TF1 (Paris), Romania Film, ZDF (Bucharest)]

Producers: Walter Ulbrich, Carl Szokoll, Klaus Nicolaescu

Director: Wolfgang Staudte, Sergiu Nicolaescu

Story: “Burning Daylight” by Jack London (John Chaney)

Teleplay: Walter Ulbrich

Photography: David Alexander (David Alexandru) [color]

Music: Hans Posegga

Running time: 4 episodes x 90 minutes

Cast:

Elam Harnish - Rudiger Bahr

Labiskwee - Christine Kaufmann

John Tarwater - Ferdy Mayne (Ferdinand Mayer-Horckel)

Cad Wilson - Françoise Arnoul (Françoise Gautsch)

Father George Washington Judge - Wolfgang Schott

Charles ‘Charly’ Clayton - Arthur Brauss (Artur Brauss)

Andy Carson - Werner Berndt

Joe Hines - Emmerich Schaffer

Henderson - Sandu Popa (Alexandru Popa)

Michael ‘Dick’ Bettles – Constantin Baltretu

Caribu Charley - C. Rautschi (Constantin Rautschi)

Montana Kid - Vladimir Gaitin

Harris Topping - Gilda Marinescu

Breck - Vasile Nitulescu

Snass - Adrian Dobrescu

Herr Latton - C. Dateu

Holdsworthy - Romel Făgărăşanu

Obert Ernie Bowle - Marcel Gingulsecu

With: Andrei Codarcea, Ion Dorutiu, Nicu Iordache (Nicolae Iordache)

The discovery of gold in 1897 in the Klondike, a river in Canada, was a sensational event.  It yielded a shovelful of sand in a yield value from $800 to $1000.  Tens of thousands of gold seekers made the trek at that time on the way to the "Land of Gold".  Among them was 21-year-old Jack London.  According to his records, books and other historical documents this four-part television movie was filmed.

‘Burning Daylight’ was a four part mini-series in 1975 with a teleplay written by Walter Ulbrich based on scenes from various Jack London books, diaries and documents of the time.  The television film was a Walter Ulbrich production of Tele-München in cooperation with Technisonor, Romania film Bucharest on behalf of ZDF, ORF and TF1 Paris. ZDF broadcast the four-part series was released during Advent 1975. The series was rebroadcast two years later in 1977 during advent once again.

Episode list: 1) The Klondike Fever, 2) The White Channel, 3) The Wild Man from the Yukon, 4) Eye