Thursday 12 January 2012

A Boy and his Dog

Released in 1974, this film starring a very young Don Johnson really puts boy and dog friendship to the test.

Plot: It's not long after WW4, the third lasting around 33 years, the forth-5 days and the world is a desolate wasteland. Vic/Albert (Don Johnson) is the boy in question and he travels the dusty waste with his trusted mutt-Blood. Seems they have a sort of telepathic link, as such, the majority of the film sounds like internal narration between the two leads. Blood sniffs out ladies for Vic and Vic sniffs out food for Blood, it's a mutually beneficial relationship, until a girl pops up and lures Vic 'down below', where the weird/cult type folk live.

Anyway, the choice is simple-bone loads a lassies (not the dog sort) or hang with the mutt...

Never known a film distributed under so many different titles: Psycho Boy and His killer Dog, Mad Don and Apocalypse 2024.

Budget: $?
Gross: $?

Fun Fact: Don won a best actor award, which he had to share with James Caan, for his dramatic portrayal in Rollerball. Cough, cough.


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