A Boy and His Dog (1946 film)

A Boy and His Dog is a 1946 American Technicolor short drama film directed by LeRoy Prinz. It won an Oscar at the 19th Academy Awards in 1947 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).^[1][2]

Short-story author Samuel A. Derieux, who died twenty-four years earlier in 1922, received story credit for the film, suggesting to some the expectation that he wrote a work with the title "A Boy and His Dog".^[3] However, a plot summary for the film, attributed to David Glagovsky,^[4] closely parallels Derieux's short story "The Trial in Tom Belcher's Store", suggesting the film-makers drew on the published (and once celebrated)^[5] story, but gave the film a title Derieux need not ever have considered.

It is entirely unrelated to Harlan Ellison's 1969 novella cycle as well as its 1975 film adaptation of the same name.

• Harry Davenport as Squire Jim Kirby
• Billy Sheffield as Davy Allen
• Dorothy Adams as Mrs. Allen
• Russell Simpson as Mr. Thornycroft
• Eddie Waller as Sheriff
• and Fleeta as Buck [a Bluetick Coonhound]

Unbilled

• Truman Bradley (narrator)
• Heinie Conklin (townsman at meeting)
• Jack Mower (Tom Belcher, store owner)

• A Boy and His Dog at IMDb
• A Boy and His Dog at AllMovie
• A Boy and His Dog at the TCM Movie Database

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