A Boy and His Dog (1946 film)

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

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).

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". However, a plot summary for the film, attributed to David Glagovsky, closely parallels Derieux's short story "The Trial in Tom Belcher's Store", suggesting the film-makers drew on the published (and once celebrated) 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.

Cast

• 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)

External links

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