Review of A Boy and His Dog (1975) by Paul R — 10 Nov 2013
This is a great movie. If you like dogs it's even a better movie. I first saw this movie in the basement of Willard Hall at Oklahoma State University. The Women of Willard (WOW) used their activity funds to send for this film and used the OSU Library's project and screen to show it in the basement.
Everyone sat around in old chairs and couches or lay on a mattress while watching the movie. It was about four years after the movie came out. I have the DVD now. The movie is out dated now. The movie is set in 2024.
In the movie they said World War IV was in 2007. They also said that the two Presidents after Ford were Kennedy and Kennedy. This got a good laugh in 1978. You have to view this movie now as an alternate history of what would have happened if Reagan hadn't been elected President and bankrupted the Soviet Union.
In the movie all the cities have been buried in mud in the nuclear war. Groups of survivors roam the desert digging up food caches to survive. The Australians stole this idea for the Mel Gibson movie Road Warrior.
The survivors of Topeka are living in an underground city and all the males are sterile. They need a male from the surface to get their woman pregnant. They use a young girl to lure Don Johnson's character down to the underground city.
She tells him that her parents were from Oklahoma before the war. The end of the movie has a surprise ending. All the good lines are from the talking dog. The dog doesn't really talk, he communicates with Don Johnson's character telepathically.
This review of A Boy and His Dog (1975) was written by Paul R on 10 Nov 2013.
A Boy and His Dog has generally received positive reviews.
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