A Boy and His Dog (1975) on Netflix
Vic, eighteen, scavenges the post-apocalyptic wasteland with Blood, his telepathic dog. Blood finds women for Vic in exchange for food, and the pair evade raiders and mutants.
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Plot summary
In 2024, eighteen-year-old Vic scavenges the post-nuclear wasteland of the southwestern United States. He cares most about food and sex, having lost his parents and gained no formal education. His partner is Blood, a well-read, misanthropic, telepathic dog. Blood finds women for Vic, and Vic finds food for Blood, who cannot forage because the engineering that gave him telepathy left him unable to. The two steal to live, dodging raiders, berserk military androids and mutants. Blood longs for the promised land called Over the Hill, while Vic thinks they should make the best of what they have.
Cast
- Don Carteras Ken
- Michael Hershmanas Richard
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Boy and His Dog (1975)
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- James Cagney was considered to speak for the telepathic dog Blood, but his voice was judged too recognisable and distracting. Around 600 auditions later the part went to Tim McIntire, who also wrote most of the film's music and sang its main theme.
- Distributors would not put money into the picture, so actor-director L.Q. Jones raised the 400,000 dollars himself from family and business associates and made it through his own company.
- L.Q. Jones has said George Miller named the film as an influence on the Mad Max pictures, and in particular on The Road Warrior in 1981.
SPOILER
Harlan Ellison, who wrote the original novella, hated the closing line L.Q. Jones invented for the film, calling it a moronic and hateful chauvinist last line that he despised, though he admitted audiences liked it.
