| A Boy and His Dog | |
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| Directed by | LeRoy Prinz |
| Screenplay by | Saul Elkins |
| Based on | original story by Samuel A. Derieux |
| Produced by | Gordon Hollingshead |
| Starring | Harry Davenport Billy Sheffield Dorothy Adams |
| Cinematography | Charles Boyle, A.S.C. |
| Edited by | Marshall Eyanson |
| Music by | William Lava |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. |
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Running time | 21 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
A Boy and His Dog is a 1946 American Technicolor short drama film directed by LeRoy Prinz. It won an Oscar at the 19th Academy Awards in 1947 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).[1][2]
Short-story author Samuel A. Derieux, who died twenty-four years earlier in 1922, received story credit for the film, suggesting to some the expectation that he wrote a work with the title "A Boy and His Dog".[3] However, a plot summary for the film, attributed to David Glagovsky,[4] closely parallels Derieux's short story "The Trial in Tom Belcher's Store", suggesting the film-makers drew on the published (and once celebrated)[5] story, but gave the film a title Derieux need not ever have considered.
It is entirely unrelated to Harlan Ellison's 1969 novella cycle as well as its 1975 film adaptation of the same name.