Good-bye, My Lady (1956)

Directed by

William A. Wellman

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

G

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy in the American South finds and cares for a stray Basenji dog. After forming a close bond with the animal, he must give her back to her original owner.

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What happens

Good-bye, My Lady is a 1956 American drama film adaptation of the novel Good-bye, My Lady (1954) by James H. Street. The book had been inspired by Street's original 1941 story which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. Street was going to be the principal advisor on the film when he suddenly died of a heart attack. A boy learns what it means to be a man by befriending and training a stray Basenji dog and then is forced to surrender her to its rightful owner. Both readers of the story and film-goers found the boy's eventual loss of the dog unexpected. Directed by William A. Wellman, the film starred Walter Brennan and Brandon deWilde, with Sidney Poitier and Phil Harris in supporting roles. Brennan and Harris previously co-starred in 1951's The Wild Blue Yonder, and Brennan and deWilde would reunite for the cameras in 1965 for Disney in Those Calloways. That same year, deWilde would play producer John Wayne's son in In Harm's Way. The film was produced by John Wayne's Batjac Productions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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