Flike and Other Film Dogs

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#1 Post by **zedz** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:07 pm

davidhare wrote:Qu'est-ce que c'est "Flike" zedz?

Isn't he your avatar? (Or is that a different heart-wrenching pup?)

#2 Post by **zedz** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:38 am

I'm impressed. I'm afraid my dogservations are more generalised.

I've noticed that lots of dogs in Russian films (e.g. Andrey Rublyov have odd, strangulated barks).

There's that magnificent 'lie down with dog' shot in Stalker.

One of Judex's episodes is (fittingly) titled "The Fantastic Dog Pack" - dozens of beasts racing to the rescue through the French countryside!

For the life of me I can't remember the name of the rascal who takes to Cary's bone in Bringing Up Baby, though I'm sure it will come echoing back to me at an inappropriate moment.

Isn't there a sublime cat/dog scuffle in Queen Kelly (it's an easy film to hallucinate along with)?

Don't recall any dogs in Nighthawks, though.

denti alligator · #3 Post by **denti alligator** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:58 am

What about the dog who "sings" a verse on the song (forget the title) near the beginning of The Love Parade. Hilarious! He too is saying goodbye to all his sweethearts in Paris.

denti alligator · #4 Post by **denti alligator** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 3:32 pm

Isn't the LD print great! And the movie is so much better than Mamoulian's "revolutionary" Love me Tonight!!!!

Yes, and the other 5 films in the collection. Why can't this be released on DVD?

Gregory · #5 Post by **Gregory** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 5:50 pm

The dog in Bringing Up Baby was named unmemorably "George," and I've read he was the same dog featured in The Awful Truth and The Thin Man.
Another film I've been thinking about in anticipation of the DVD is Forbidden Games, which has an important dog (but I don't want to say more and spoil the plot developments).

#6 Post by **Mr Sausage** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:20 pm

Let's not forget the panting dog that opens Kurosawa's Stray Dog.

Or the Husky hiding the monster in it in Carpenter's The Thing.

There's also a rather cunning dog (he kills I think three baddies--he's more effective than any of the main characters) in The Hills Have Eyes.

Fletch F. Fletch · #7 Post by **Fletch F. Fletch** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:28 pm

There's the dog that takes the severed hand away after the bloody bank robbery in Wild at Heart. A visual nod (of course) to a similar shot in Yojimbo.

Michael Kerpan · #8 Post by **Michael Kerpan** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:43 pm

Then there are the multiple "Little Nippers" in Ozu's "Dragnet Girl" -- not real dogs -- but visually important.

Andre Jurieu · #9 Post by **Andre Jurieu** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:49 pm

How about the white dog in Sam Fuller's White Dog?

pianocrash · #10 Post by **pianocrash** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:15 am

Caligula · #11 Post by **Caligula** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:55 am

My personal favourite has got to be the opening sequence from Blue Velvet: The guy having a heart attack while watering his garden, as a result the garden hose spins out of control & the dog drinks the spraying water.

An honorable mention must also go to the dog in The Outlaw Josey Wales, especially the scenes involving tobacco juice.

devlinnn · #12 Post by **devlinnn** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:08 am

While Sinatra won't allow him to sleep on the bed (the fool), at least Fluffy (?) gets a chest rub and cuddle from Ms. Novak in the wonderfully off-key Pal Joey. Must mention also Garbo's throne draped, slobbering hounds in Queen Christina (Oh, for a dog's life in 30s Hollywood) and Scorsese's little ball of fluff's cameo in the Age of Innocence, lounging about on laps and cushions.

tryavna · #13 Post by **tryavna** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:02 pm

How come nobody's mentioned this puppy yet?

HerrSchreck · #14 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:26 am

davidhare wrote:Also Burt's magnificent Great Dane in The Leopard who seems to follow Visconti's directions to sit, walk,and yawn very well.

Can't believe you guys left out Jaques in BOUDU (Boudu's lost boy!), as well as Gabin's tailgater in QUAI DE BRUMES.

HerrSchreck · #15 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:27 am

tryavna wrote:How come nobody's mentioned this puppy yet?

Related:

Don't forget little Damien's guardian "Jackal" (I mean. um, rottweiler) in OMEN.

Napoleon · #16 Post by **Napoleon** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:38 pm

Blood from A Boy And His Dog.

Michael · #17 Post by **Michael** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:45 pm

That adorable little dog following the music-playing clowns in 8 1/2 's finale.

kinjitsu · #18 Post by **kinjitsu** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:57 pm

Hitchcock's cameo walking his terriers, Geoffrey and Stanley, in The Birds.

NABOB OF NOWHERE · Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:15 pm

Michael Powell's two spaniels in Blimp but perhaps more memorably being shown the Camera Obscura image in Matter of Life and Death.

NABOB OF NOWHERE · Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:17 pm

And of course how could I forget ' I know where I'm going'. Pamela Brown's heartstopping entrance as 'Diana the Hunter' with two scottish deerhounds.

LightBulbFilm · #21 Post by **LightBulbFilm** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 3:07 am

In honor of Christmas, the original, Max from Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas!

HerrSchreck · #22 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 5:59 am

LightBulbFilm wrote:In honor of Christmas, the original, Max from Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas!

Spike the dog walking on his ass-cheeks over a snowy hill in Tex Avery's zillionth masterpiece, ROCK A BYE BEAR.

Plus the handful of the above genius' original Droopys... and the wolf from RED HOT RIDING HOOD. Certain masterworks simply cannot get played out.

HerrSchreck · #23 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:12 am

Little Panda who intiated the canine hex in Bob's troubled, dilaudid & blue (oxymorphone)- fueled head in DRUGSTORE COWBOY (anybody read the Jim Fogle bio-novel upon which that pic was based? One of the most faithful adaptations in cinema (as opposed to the excessive liberties the great Dassin so notoriously took with novels).

"...milk is a part of a beautiful life..."

ben d banana · #24 Post by **ben d banana** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:38 am

David, you have me beaten. You even managed to go off-topic on the thread created because you went off-topic.

Cinesimilitude · #25 Post by **Cinesimilitude** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:39 am

My favorite film dog has got to be "Beast" from the Sandlot, for nostalgic reasons of course.

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