A Boy and His Dog (1946 film)

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A Boy and His Dog
Directed by LeRoy Prinz
Screenplay by Saul Elkins
Based onoriginal story by
Samuel A. Derieux
Produced by Gordon Hollingshead
Starring Harry Davenport
Billy Sheffield
Dorothy Adams
Cinematography Charles Boyle, A.S.C.
Edited byMarshall Eyanson
Music by William Lava
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Release date
  • December 26, 1946 (1946-12-26)
Running time
21 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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]

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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.

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References

  1. "New York Times: A Boy and His Dog". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . 2009. Archived from the original on May 29, 2009. Retrieved May 18, 2008.
  2. "The 19th Academy Awards (1947) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  3. "Samuel Arthur Derieux ... was the author of: ... Comet (1921), A Boy and His Dog (? )..." "Frank of Freedom Hill (Dodo Press) -- Paperback", "Editorial Reviews", on Amazon.Com
  4. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038379/plotsummary "Plot Summary for A Boy and His Dog (1946)" at IMDb [ user-generated source ]
  5. "The Trial in Tom Belcher's Store" pp. 214-231, O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919