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What happened to John Thorton when he returned from the hunt? In the call of the wild

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Like the 1903 Jack London novel on which it's based, the sorrow is over the main human, John Thornton (played by Harrison Ford). In the movie, the long-troubled Thornton dies with Buck propping him up for a final look at a beautiful meadow
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