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Inspired by Brass Neck's latest doggy drama - i'd like to find out what your favourite dog movie is (the dog doesn't need to be the main feature). Here's 2 i thought were great:
Dean Spanley (2008) - a bit sad
As Good As It Gets (1997)

Huck wrote: "Inspired by Brass Neck's latest doggy drama - i'd like to find out what your favourite dog movie is (the dog doesn't need to be the main feature). Here's 2 i thought were great:
Dean Spanley (2008)..."

Just to clarify Brass, i said doggy, not dogging !

As a kid, I loved The Incredible Journey (1963).
More recently there is Red Dog (2011), from the book of the same name by Louis de Bernieres (2002), which is based on a true story.

I can think of some absolute sh*te movies built around a dog character - Beethoven and Turner & Hooch spring to mind.

I did enjoy the Argentinian Spanish language film Bombón: El Perro
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420548/

Speaking of dogging a small coach was booked to take Grimbarian and Cleethorpians to Louth for a blues gig. We were promised the bus would do drop-offs near our homes but it failed to take the turning for chez Brass so I said I was OK with being dropped the far side of the country park and walking a mile or less through it. The park gates are never closed and the car park was full of cars with their headlights on. Discretion being the better part of valour I walked round the tree-obscured perimeter rather than through it and to this day have no idea why they were gathered there on a balmy Saturday night past midnight.

Another vote for the 1963 version of The Incredible Journey. I only have to think of Bodger to bring a tear to my eye.



And there's a few of us who cried through "Old Yeller". And "My Dog Skip".

One I'm not sure I could watch - Cujo

One watched recently; the dog is more cutsie than important - Man Made Monster (1941)

Val wrote: "Another vote for the 1963 version of The Incredible Journey. I only have to think of Bodger to bring a tear to my eye.

Indeed, Val. Have you not seen Red Dog? It's equally poignant (and Australian!). :-)

SussexWelsh wrote: "Indeed, Val. Have you not seen Red Dog? It's equally poignant (and Australian!). :-)..."

No, it's one I've never caught up with. I'm sure I would like it because it's based on the book by Louis de Bernières and I loved "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" - the book, not the film (I avoid Nicholas Cage like the plague). I really must make the effort.

Val wrote: "No, it's one I've never caught up with. I'm sure I would like it because it's based on the book by Louis de Bernières ..."

..... as I said in my original post ;-)

SussexWelsh wrote: "..... as I said in my original post ;-)"

Doh!

Brass Neck wrote: "I can think of some absolute sh*te movies built around a dog character - Beethoven and Turner & Hooch spring to mind.

I did enjoy the Argentinian Spanish language film Bombón: El Perro
https://www..."

i thought Turner and Hooch was OK but i agree Bombon is very good. If you want dogs and laughs - you need to see Best in Show (2000) - brilliant. I saw a film recently about a dog who keeps dying and coming back as a different breed - bit of a tear jerker but enjoyable enough. Can't recall the name, or any of the actors

Let's hear it for ....... LLAAAASSSSSIIIIEEEE!

Does the slinky dachshund in Toy Story count?

Black and Whites
Laughing Gravy (1931)
The Thin Man (1934)
Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
- i guess the Wolfman isn't really a dog ?

My favourite doggy film is Fluke (1995). Based on the James Herbert book. Broke my heart at it.

I'm not much of a film fan or a dog fan, but Frankenweenie was great - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=29vIJQo...

Also, Gromit from Wallace & G short films (obvs) and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; Bitzer from Shaun The Sheep; Frank The Pug from Men In Black; and Ambrosius, Sir Didymus' steed, in Labyrinth (1986).

Reservoir Dogs.

there are two things wrong with that title!

101 Dalmations, cartoon or Glenn Close versions, anyone?

Does The Grey count?

Wolves are canines but I wouldn,t want one as a pet! Lovely as they are.

Also, not sure if any movies were made of these, but Lassie and Timothy from Famous Five?

My favourite film about dogs. I can’t say it better than the Guardian review. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021...
It’s called ‘Stray’.