The Sea Wolf (1993 film)

The Sea Wolf is a 1993 American-Canadian made-for-television adventure drama film directed by Michael Anderson, starring Charles Bronson, Catherine Mary Stewart and Christopher Reeve.

Jack London's brutal antihero Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed ship, the seal-hunter Ghost.

He explained that since the shoot was located in Vancouver, he called every boat broker in the West Coast and eventually they found 120 foot schooner, named "Zodiac", that was built in 1924 with a 19th century design.

"[1] On a sound stage in a Vancouver port, designer Trevor Williams built five below decks cabins and a water tank, that were engineered on rollers to give the effect of the "sway of the sea.

He said he played Van Weyden "not as a dandy but as a snob who is decent at heart; who goes through a humanizing process to survive, and whose primitive instinct is brought to the fore.

"[2] Ray Loynd of the Los Angeles Times "the production rivals the classic Edward G. Robinson remake (Warner Bros., 1942), generally cited as the strongest of all six prior "Sea Wolf" movies (including three silents).

... Bronson, playing what's probably his first thinking man's heavy, seems right at home as the power-maddened Wolf Larsen butting heads and spouting lines from Milton ("It's better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven").

[5] Dave Jewett of The Columbian thought that Bronson did a good job acting but that it was difficult to watch Reeve play a weak character due to the fact his most well known role is Superman.