Product Details

• Actors: Billy Lee, Addison Richards, Bradley Page, Kay Linaker, Herbert Rawlinson
• Directors: S. Roy Luby
• Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: A2ZCDS.com
• DVD Release Date: April 19, 2005
• Run Time: 64 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009H72WI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #251,029 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Review

In this patriotic film, a good-hearted boy donates his best friend to the Dogs for Defense, an government organization that trained household dogs for the military during WW II. Following training, the canine recruit is assigned to keep a defense plant safe from saboteurs. Coincidentally, the boy's boozy father also works at the plant. The father redeems himself, and the dog becomes a hero when they team up to stop the enemy from blowing up the factory. --Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Product Description

A young boy donates his pet, a police dog, to the army to be trained as a war dog.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Doggy Power!, July 28, 2006

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jen - See all my reviews

This review is from: War Dogs / Pride of the Army (1942) [Remastered Edition] (DVD)

War Dogs is a great story about soldiers doing whatever they can to survive war. In this case when faced with the dangers of World War II they eventually enlist dogs to help them out. This is where the title's double meaning comes from - soldiers are called war dogs and then they bring dogs in for war. Clever, huh? The highlight of the film is the tense battle sequences that are much more realistic than other films of this genre and era.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lassie Does World War II, November 14, 2006

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Bart (Montpellier, France) - See all my reviews

This review is from: War Dogs / Pride of the Army (1942) [Remastered Edition] (DVD)

The problem with most war movies is that they are all the same.

Hollywood started the "war film formula" after World War I and up to and including Saving Private Ryan, it all seems to never change.

You always start out with a bunch of guys with different unique personality traits. They have a difficult task in front of them. Sometimes it's taking a hill, other times they have to save a prisoner or else they simply have to survive until help arrives.

No matter what the goal, it's all just an excuse to have a few of the cast members die, have one or two of them emerage as heros and to put a lot of flashing lights and explosions on the screen.

That's why I like War Dogs. Say what you will about it - it takes the War movie in a unique direction that I have not seen before or since.

The basic plot is similar to any and all Lassie episodes you have ever seen. A nice wholesome family has a dog that seems to be much smarter than he ever could be in real life.

Then something bad happens and the dog has to save the day - which he does in the last few minutes of the story.

In this case, the dog isn't in the midwest helping Timmy get saved from the bottom of the well. Instead, he's trained to go along and fight with the troops.

Does he save the day and help lead the boys to victory?

Of course he does. What makes it interesting is the implication that the dog is as smart - as the brave boys that he saves from certain death.

It just goes to show that often one of the best ways to save a dying, tired genre of movie is just to put in a new twist and/or combine it with another movie genre.

It works well in this picture.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this beautiful film from A2ZCDS.com all the more real for me, May 2, 2006

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Frieda Molkovicz "Frieda Molkovicz" (Augusta, Maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: War Dogs / Pride of the Army (1942) [Remastered Edition] (DVD)

"Truly touching, what the dog Pal does for this poor family. I understand that this could well be a real story, since War Dogs was filmed for some kind of Army project that really existed. I loved Billy Lee and Pal the most - my own son is inseparable from his Doberman Mackie, and that made this beautiful film from A2ZCDS.com all the more real for me."