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Bookmark this pageA Dog of Flanders (1959)
Director: James B Clark
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From Time Out Film Guide
Less about a dog than a boy of (19th century) Flanders: Nelo, who lives in poverty with his grandfather and wants to become an artist. His progress towards this ambition is helped by a painter who befriends him and, in the happy ending, takes him as an apprentice. But the film is really about the kind of life led by Nelo and his grandfather, blending attractive images of the Flemish countryside with a story of personal and social values (Nelo is forbidden by the well-off miller to play with his daughter; the priest won't let him see the Rubens in the cathedral because he can't pay). An old-fashioned tearjerker for kids (the grandfather dies), it's pretty, but not pretty-pretty.Author: JWi
Cast & crew
Director: James B Clark
Producer: Robert B Radnitz
Cast: David Ladd, Donald Crisp, Theodore Bikel, Max Croiset, Monique Ahrens full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 96 mins
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