A soldier becomes quite upset when he is transferred from the highly coveted machine-gun unit to the canine corps. He begins to change his opinion when he learns that his army dog Mike was a gift from an eight-year-old whose father was killed in the war. Now the soldier becomes committed to training Mike into the best army dog there ever was.
Acting
Larry Parks commits harder than this script deserves.
Practical Effects
Real war dogs doing real stunts—no CGI, all heart.
Director
Henry Levin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Columbia's 'B-unit' rushed this out during WWII to capitalize on the real K-9 Corps' popularity; it cost roughly nothing and made just enough.
Larry Parks would soon be blacklisted for refusing to name names before HUAC—ironic that this government-funded fluff preceded his political persecution.
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