It's A Dog's Life history

It's A Dog's Life historyTake a bow wow, Wildfire. You're the canine star of It's a Dog's Life and winner of a Patsy Award (Picture Animal Top Star of the Year). Wildfire, a white bull terrier, is also the narrator (voice by uncredited Vic Morrow) of this tale of the pup's rise from 1890s Bowery castoff to backroom saloon brawler (the film does not revel in nor show its dog fighting scenes in detail) to beribboned show champion to blueblood pet. Jeff Richards portrays ne'er

Barbara soky

the Sherman Antitrust Act

romance and suspense

When the boy meets a girl and begins falling in love

Alec returns to the mantle just as Emilene finds the key and offers to show her where it fits in exchange for half of Leo's booty

Rory Reid and The Stig are back

Mara begins to come into her own as well

and Hugh Miles makes the most of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

The movie has a great early seventies feel

to watch the earth's largest predator pursue its prey

Director Stuart Heisler (Cooper's Along Came Jones) keeps the pace flowing like the local saloon's liquor

Vassili Gaponenko