A Boy and His Dog (1946)

Directed by

LeRoy Prinz

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

21 min

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The short film is about a boy and his dog. It tells a story of their bond and a trial that takes place in a store.

sentimentalheartfeltnostalgicslow-pacedwholesometenderearnestold-fashioned

What happens

A Boy and His Dog is a 1946 American Technicolor short drama film directed by LeRoy Prinz. It won an Oscar at the 19th Academy Awards in 1947 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Short-story author Samuel A. Derieux, who died twenty-four years earlier in 1922, received story credit for the short film, suggesting to some the expectation that he wrote a work with the title "A Boy and His Dog". However, a plot summary for the short film, attributed to David Glagovsky, closely parallels Derieux's short story "The Trial in Tom Belcher's Store", suggesting the film-makers drew on the published (and once celebrated) story, but gave the short film a title Derieux need not ever have considered. It is entirely unrelated to Harlan Ellison's 1969 novella cycle as well as its 1975 film adaptation of the same name. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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