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A clever con artist and an animal trainer team up to teach Doberman Pinschers how to rob banks.A clever con artist and an animal trainer team up to teach Doberman Pinschers how to rob banks.A clever con artist and an animal trainer team up to teach Doberman Pinschers how to rob banks.
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- TriviaThis film received the first "No Animals Were Harmed" end credit ever issued to a theatrical film by the American Humane Society, the oversight organization responsible for monitoring animal actors during productions.
- Alternate versionsOriginally rated "PG" when released in the U.S. In 1973 the film was edited to be re-rated "G" from the MPAA.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Best of Sex and Violence (1982)
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You Can Rely On Dogs
Crime planner Byron Mabe is tired of having his beautifully worked out robberies loused up when one of the books fails to follow follow the plan or tries to double-cross him. So he hires a dog trainer and buys a bunch of Doberman Pinschers to execute a bank robbery.
It's almost a Disney film, with its love of animals and twangy, country-western score, except for the implied sex out of wedlock, blood from the Dobies savaging people upon command and, oh yeah, the fact that a bunch of crooks are the heroes of the movie. Most of the movie is taken up with the planning and training stages, and by the time the robbery takes place, the audience pretty much knows how it will go. Yet the wackiness of the entire scheme more than makes up for the lack of well-known performers.
Director Byron Chudnow had spent much of his career up to this as a TV editor, and it does have the pacing and look of something from that medium. Certainly, he paces the movie very well, and it was sufficiently successful to result in two sequels; a 'reboot' is currently scheduled for release in 2022.
It's almost a Disney film, with its love of animals and twangy, country-western score, except for the implied sex out of wedlock, blood from the Dobies savaging people upon command and, oh yeah, the fact that a bunch of crooks are the heroes of the movie. Most of the movie is taken up with the planning and training stages, and by the time the robbery takes place, the audience pretty much knows how it will go. Yet the wackiness of the entire scheme more than makes up for the lack of well-known performers.
Director Byron Chudnow had spent much of his career up to this as a TV editor, and it does have the pacing and look of something from that medium. Certainly, he paces the movie very well, and it was sufficiently successful to result in two sequels; a 'reboot' is currently scheduled for release in 2022.
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