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A Boy and His Dog

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Time Out says

Based on Harlan Ellison's novella, this covers familiar territory - vigorously and imaginatively - as feuding clans of scavengers prowl the desolate American landscape left by a nuclear holocaust. What lifts things right out of the rut is the cynical commentary provided by the hero's dog, communicating telepathically (in voice-off admirably spoken by Tim McIntire) and kicking the daylights out of all those boy-and-his-dog yarns (canine values win out, for example, when with barely a qualm the hero consigns his girl to serve as dogfood). The second half, venturing underground to find Middle America miraculously preserved but rapidly dying, is less good. Jones' debut as a director nevertheless has a distinctive tang, as affably unprincipled as the series of villains he played for Sam Peckinpah.
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Release Details

  • Duration:89 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:LQ Jones
  • Screenwriter:LQ Jones
  • Cast:
    • Don Johnson
    • Susanne Benton
    • Jason Robards
    • Alvy Moore
    • Helene Winston
    • Charles McGraw
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