Netflix's Shadow and Bone Season 2: The Darkling Rises in New Trailer (Margaret Hamilton was one hell of an actress-and I have no doubt a dog lover in real life).TVLine Items: Firefly Lane Returns Early, CW Does Motorsports and More So why did she want to go back home, where Toto is still under sentence of death? It's all unresolved at the end-isn't Miss Gulch going to still want Toto put to death? Or did a house fall on her too? Or are we just supposed to believe that the local authorities will refuse to carry out the sentence, after Dorothy's narrow escape? We can only wonder. Dorothy is willing to leave everything behind to save her dog, and in the fantasy world of Oz, there is nothing strange about this. All dog lovers have had at least a few Miss Gulches in their lives-people who fear and despise dogs, and 'witch' would be too kind a word for most of them, male or female. So why should they pay for crimes they don't even know they're committing? They did a series of movies about these dogs, and the cool thing is that while the human thieves may get caught in the end, the dogs always get away clean.īelatedly, I decided to add this movie to the list, because even though it's not a dog movie per se, Toto, played by Terry, a Cairn Terrier who seems at times to actually understand the story she's in (a remarkable talent, on a par with Rin Tin Tin), is really the catalyst for the whole story. Basically, the message is that most people are no damn good, and if they make dogs do bad things, that isn't the dogs' fault-they're just doing their jobs.
But the dogs are just amazing, going through complex routines with no humans directing them (not on camera, anyway). The opening theme song can fool you into thinking it's a lighthearted romp, but there's sex and violence and dogs mauling people, and I really do wonder how this movie got made, and who was supposed to go see it. It looks like a kid's movie, and it really truly is not-it's a hard-boiled heist movie, about some dangerous crooks who try to use Doberman Pinschers to rob a bank. And I'll finish with perhaps the oddest dog movie of all time, featuring some of the most impressive feats of training ever put on film, courtesy of the great Karl Miller (whose daughter now does the training for Kommissar Rex in Europe).
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