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A picture for people who think they've seen EVERYTHING!
Ex-police/army dog King inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. But someone poisons him for his fortune. He gets to go back to earth as a human detective to bring his killer to justice and protect the girl who used to look after him.
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you know those stories where a dog is murdered and it pleads its case in animal purgatory court to be reincarnated as a human private investigator to finger their murderer? well this movie posits the question ‘what if the dog’s owner wanted to fuck the reincarnated dog/private investigator?’ very sane.
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Watch on acid to lose your fucking mind.
Humanimal!
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“I guess I’ve been barking up the wrong tree.”
Continuing the theme of “eccentric rich person leaves fortune to animal,” this time we’ve got a cookie cracker magnate’s death, and his millions left to his dog, King. The care of the animal is given to the deceased man’s secretary, Ellen (Peggy Dow), with a written clause stating that if the animal dies then the fortune passes to her. When King is poisoned and his spirit sent to the “Beastatory” (animal purgatory), he pleads with the Lion god to send him back in hybrid human/animal form to solve the case of his murder, and exonerate the late millionaire’s pretty secretary who is seen as the prime suspect.
You Never Can Tell…
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Watching the Criterion Channel’s Screwball Comedy lineup, I immediately had to watch this double feature of pets being willed large estates. The premise of this one is gonzo but they don’t do a lot with it.
A German Shepard named King inherits the fortune of his deceased owner. Dead under suspicious circumstances, he goes to an animal heaven that looks like Pride Rock filmed in negative. There he asks to return to Earth as a “humanimal” (a person who knows they used to be an animal) with a companion named Golden Harvest, previously a champion race horse. Now deemed Rex, he becomes a private detective to solve his own murder. But he knows who killed him.
Aside from a couple…
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This movie is very high and very drunk.
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Very amusing nonsense. It barely puts any effort in its plot even by the standards of a comedy, remaining very happy to hang around Powell. Any moment the movie goes back to him acting like a dog it is pretty funny as the writing finds good situations and Powell really commits. The parody of his second hard boiled persona is less succesful. but then the movie is only incidenal interested in that. The world around him is far too shaky for it to become memorable, but it is a good one joke movie.
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I'm just going to transcribe the description from the Criterion Channel, so that you'll understand why I watched this movie and why you should probably watch it too. Take it away, Criterion!
"Every dog has his day in this delightfully offbeat fantasy comedy. After his eccentric millionaire owner bequeaths his vast fortune to his beloved german shepherd, it looks like the pooch, King, is one seriously lucky dog. But after King is poisoned in a plot to steal the inheritance, he makes a deal in doggie heaven (Dale note: it's actually Animal Heaven, here called Beastuary) to return to Earth as private eye Rex Shepard (Dick Powell) and, with the helpf of a reincarnated racehorse (Joyce Holden), solve his own…
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I can confidently assure you this is the best movie you will ever see in your life about a reincarnated dog detective and his reincarnated horse secretary.
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Thought I was having a stroke when we went to Beastatory
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I watched this based on the summary alone:
After his eccentric millionaire owner bequeaths his vast fortune to his beloved German shepherd, it looks like the pooch, King, is one seriously lucky dog. But after King is poisoned in a plot to steal the inheritance, he makes a deal in doggie heaven to return to Earth as private eye Rex Shepard (Dick Powell) and, with the help of a reincarnated racehorse (Joyce Holden), solve his own murder--yes, really!
And yep, that’s what happens, all right!
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They actually fucking did it. They went and made a screwball animal version of Powell/Pressburger’s A Matter Of Life And Death and it absolutely owns. Dick Powell is hilarious as a dead dog who munches on kibble with Joyce Holden as his horse companion who keeps hay in her purse. Also has a pretty shocking twist that inadvertently is quite critical of the American military. This is the most militant animal rights movie I’ve seen since EO.
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the humanimals are among us