A war hero with four legs and a secret nobody saw coming.
A boy tries to protect his dog, a German shepherd that served with U.S. Army forces after it begins attacking strangers several years after the war.
Acting
Gary Gray carries real weight as the desperate son.
Direction
Tinling squeezes surprising dread from a Poverty Row budget.
Director
James Tinling
Charles Russell
Ralph Benson
Virginia Christine
Jean Benson
Gary Gray
Johnny Benson
John Ridgely
Walters
James Burke
Sheriff Hamilton
Konstantin Shayne
Dr. Ulding
William Stelling
Barlow
Charles Lang
John Steele
Flame the dog
Big Dan, the Dog
William Bakewell
Capt. Kingston
William Benedict
Irv Bennett
Michael Chapin
Vinnie Jardine
Harry Cheshire
Judge Thorgeson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of Fox's 'B' unit quickies, shot in under two weeks with sets recycled from other productions.
Released when real military dogs were being euthanized rather than demobilized, making its climax uncomfortably documentary-adjacent.
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