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Man's Best Friend (1935)

Man's Best Friend poster
Directed by
Edward A. Kull
Genre
adventure film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 02m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A boy living in the mountains has adventures with his dog Lightning, a police dog. The story follows their friendship and the challenges they face together.

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What happens

Man's Best Friend is a 1935 feature film about the adventures of a boy and his dog Lightning. The film stars Douglas Haig, an American child actor of the 1920s and 1930s; Lightning, a grandson of Strongheart; Frank Brownlee; and Mary McLaren. Man's Best Friend was the high point of Douglas Haig's career as a film actor. In 1986, TV Guide described the film as a "simple, unpretentious story of a little mountain boy and his pet police dog". Man's Best Friend has been released on DVD, together with The Silent Code by the DVD label Oldies.Com. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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