Set in a small western town, WOLF DOG centers on a kid (played by Tony Brown) who sees his dog mauled to death and on the rebound finds and trains a "wolf dog" that is played by a very rambunctious German Shepherd named Prince. Prince is the main reason for seeing the movie, as the story is hardly stellar and rather poorly played, mostly by Jim Davis as a lying ex-con father mixed up with escaped prisoners, and the beautiful Allison Hayes who plays the mother.
***SPOILERS*** Lost for some 40 years until rediscovered in the late 1990's "Wolf Dog" has now become somewhat, to the few dozen people who watched it, of a cult film. That in it having two bigger then life stars, in the parts that they later played, in it the gravely voiced Jim Davis as ex-convict Jim Hughes who was to become famous as the big oil Petrarch "Jock" of all trades Jock "Jocko" Ewing of the enormously popular TV series "Dallas".
A town with more "No Parking" signs than cars to park. A populace that raced to a dog fight at the drop of a flea collar.
This film was obviously lensed back-to-back with "Flaming Frontier". The behind-the-camera credits are identical.
Struggling to find pre-70's Canadian films for an ICM challenge,I started to take a closer look at each individual year. Finding only a small number from the 50's,I was happy to spot a Canadian Western,which led to me freeing the wolf dog.
