| Shep Comes Home | |
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 Australian film poster | |
| Directed by | Ford Beebe |
| Written by | Ford Beebe |
| Produced by | Ron Ormond associate June Carr Ira Webb executive Robert L. Lippert |
| Music by | Walter Greene |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Screen Guild Productions |
Release date |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Shep Comes Home is a 1948 American film written and directed by Ford Beebe for Lippert Pictures. It was a sequel to My Dog Shep (1946).
Ford Beebe was attached in September 1948. [1]
Filming started September 1948. [2]
Robert L. Lippert, who financed, was hoping to turn the films into a series. [3] However there were no more Shep films.
Margia Dean recalled "The dog always did it right on the first take—but the actors kept goofing up. (Laughs) That’s probably why they say actors don’t like working with animals. (Laughs)” [4]
Margia Dean's performance led to her being cast in I Shot Jesse James . [5]
Walter Andrew Brennan was an American actor and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938), and The Westerner (1940), making him one of only three male actors to win three Academy Awards, and the only male or female actor to win three awards in the supporting actor category. Brennan was also nominated for his performance in Sergeant York (1941). Other noteworthy performances were in To Have and Have Not (1944), My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948), and Rio Bravo (1959).
I Shot Jesse James is a 1949 American Western film directed by Samuel Fuller about the murder of Jesse James by Robert Ford and Robert Ford's life afterwards. The story is built around a fictional rivalry between Ford and his eventual killer Edward Kelley over a woman. I Shot Jesse James is Samuel Fuller's first movie, and stars Reed Hadley as Jesse James and John Ireland as Bob Ford.
The Last Command is a 1955 American Western film directed by Frank Lloyd starring Sterling Hayden, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Richard Carlson, Arthur Hunnicutt, Ernest Borgnine and J. Carrol Naish based on the life of Jim Bowie and the Battle of the Alamo.
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My Dog Shep is a 1946 American drama film directed by Ford Beebe.
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Marguerite Louise Skliris-Alvarez, known as Margia Dean, is an American former beauty queen and stage and screen actress of Greek descent.
Jungle Goddess is a 1948 American action/adventure crime film starring George Reeves, Ralph Byrd, and Wanda McKay. Directed by Lewis D. Collins, the film was based on an idea by producer William Stephens.
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Highway 13 is a 1948 American film directed by William Berke and starring Robert Lowery. Lowery had just made Shep Comes Home for financier Robert L. Lippert.
Texas Manhunt, also known as Red Desert, is a 1949 American Western film directed by Ford Beebe and starring Don "Red" Barry and Tom Neal.
Mask of the Dragon is a 1951 American mystery thriller film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Richard Travis, Sheila Ryan and Michael Whalen. It was released by the independent company Lippert Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director Harry Reif. Part of it was set in a television studio, which was considered novel at the time.
Flame was a dog who starred in a number of movies, notably as My Dog Shep (1946) and its sequel, the My Pal series of shorts and the Rusty series.
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