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An English-dubbed version is on Youtube. I have rated it 6/10.
I think that the original language was a mix of Italian, Latin and French. I've been told to avoid the shortened US version of this film. The trouble is that I don't like films that last for over 3hrs like the original does. I've heard the story read over the radio so I might be tempted to go for the shorter Americanised version.
German Shepherd are sometimes portrayed as fierce on film posters. There are a number of examples of this on my 'They've got a German Shepherd' list on IMDb. The poster for 'Wolf Dog' (1958) is a prime instance of this. I've even questioned whether Prince, who plays the wolf dog of the title, is a German Shepherd/Wolf mix. It's inadvisable to breed the two but I think that it does go on.
As you say, German Shepherds are very intelligent. They have been used so often in films for that reason.
Thanks for the explanation about the title. There is more to the story in this than the 'Omega Man' and 'Last Man On Earth' film versions.
I was on a knife-edge watching this too. The family were trying to act so normal. I suppose they were a normal family really but for Mason. Hard to watch documentary but worth it. I've rated it 7/10,
I think the most significant thing about his appearance was his prematurely grey hair. It almost looks blue tinted in some of his scenes.
I was reading about him in 'Mermaid.' That's the autobiography of Esther Williams. She had an affair with Chandler. But it ended when she found him upstairs dressed in her clothes. I would never have had him down as a cross-dresser.
I like some low budget horror. And this one kept me interested. I'll be looking round for some more of the same from the early 1980s. I've rated it 6/10.
I think that I would buy a copy. I've just rated it 7/10.
I've always wondered where Matheson got his title from. After the other screen adaptations of the story, they finally get to use the book title. I wish that they would have given an explanation of it in the film. A note on the screen or something like that. But I didn't notice any.
It was a very effective scene. And as a dog lover a bit of a hard one to watch.
I love the German Shepherd breed. In fact I've devoted a list to them on IMDb that include a lot of them playing police dogs. Sam was played by a Shepherd called Kona. This was her only film.
I don't know who was. Ginger Rogers is more well known today and I would have thought that she was the bigger star in days gone by as well.
I agree that it is a good experience. I've rated it 9/10.
I do sometime uprate a film if I see it later and have found that I have appreciated more on a second or third viewing. I never use half points. I sometimes delay rating a film if I have difficulty deciding which side of the divide I'm aiming for. I think that I have established the criteria for my rating decisions now. It's just that sometimes a film can turn out to mean more to me than I originally gave it credit for.
I don't think that it's stupid to have animal suffering in films effect you. I sometimes feel embarrassed to admit it. That's why I joined this thread. So I can say it out loud to someone of a like mentality.
I don't watch Hitchcock's 'Marnie' because of a horse scene in it. I immediately turn off a western if someone has to shoot a suffering horse. Immediately they get the gun out and aim, I switch the film quickly off. Also I hate it when someone kills someone's pet out of spite in a film. That very often happens in Lifetime thrillers.
I have to agree that I find animal suffering in films harder to watch than children's. And I get more sentimental about animal stories as well.
I actually like the movie. But it's not really one for children as you found out. I like Christmas angel movies. I've rated this 7/10.
Talking about doom and gloom at Christmas time. The TV schedules this year are full of it. There's always tragedies and deaths in the soaps. And now they're making some children's stories a hard watch. They seemed to determined that we're all going to have a sad and thought-provoking Christmas instead of a happy one.
I didn't know he was English born either. I've just noticed his first film was a British one. But I think that after that he was in the US only. R.I.P.
I haven't seen 'Mission Cleopatra' yet. Having seen this Asterix animation, I am tempted to see more. Wonderful deadpan humour at times in this. I've rated it 7/10.
I'll listen out for 'Mister Pinky.' I sometimes miss out the end credits of films so I'm not too sure if I've stayed to hear that one or not. I've seen both the 2007 'Hairspray' and the 2016 live version. Also the 1988 'Hairspray' which was mostly 1960s record tracks if I remember rightly.