A Boy and His Dog (1975)

Vic (a very young Don Johnson, who any of child of the 80's knows instantly) and Blood (voiced by Tim McIntire, who was George Jones in the 1981 TV movie Stand By Your Man) are a human and dog team traveling through the post-apocalyptic fallout after World War 4. Unlike the way my dog just barks and barks until I wake up, Blood can speak telepathically.That telepathy comes at the expense of his ability to search for food, so the incredibly intelligent, human-hating mutt uses Vic to help him. Vic's only hungers are food and sex. He's pretty much a moron with no basic standards of ethics or morals. While the two have an antagonistic relationship, they realize that they need one another.While watching old porn movies at a makeshift drive-in, Blood smells Quilla Julia Holmes, who comes from "Downunder," a town inside an underground vault. Vic saves her from mutants and the two have sex, despite Blood's dislike of her. She leads him to the city, where Blood refuses to enter.Quilla June's father, Lou Craddock (Jason Robards, Something Wicked This Way Comes) has sent her to the surface to recruit new blood for Topeka, a biosphere city beneath ruined Kansas. The Committee rules all, forcing its people to dress in 1930's costumes. Vic has been brought here to be a stud, donating his sperm at the expense of the pleasure that he needs. And even worse — once he impregnates 35 women, he'll be sent to the farm and never seen again.Quilla Jane breaks Vic out as part of her plot to kill off The Committee and their android goon, Michael. That said — Vic wants no part of this plot, only to get back to his home above ground and his friend Blood. Michael kills Quilla Jane's other rebellion members before Vic takes him out. Quilla proclaims her love for Vic and asks to return to the surface with him.When they find Blood, he is starving and near death. Quilla Jane tells him to leave the dog to die and spend the rest of his life with her. Vic makes his mind off — killing her off camera, so that Blood can eat her. Vic states that she should have never followed him as Blood jokes that she didn't have bad taste. They walk off into the sunset together.A Boy and His Dog comes from a series of stories by Harlan Ellison, whose prodigious output is only rivaled by his cantankerous nature. Two of his scripts for TV's The Outer Limits, Demon with a Glass Hand and Soldier, were so close to The Terminator that Ellison has an "acknowledgment to the works of Harlan Ellison" credit in Terminator: Genisys (and Ellison was supposedly paid for his inspiration, which you can learn about here). He also wrote what many consider the greatest episode of the original Star Trek, The City on the Edge of Forever.Ellison tried to write the screenplay, but hit writer's block. The final script was written by producer Alvy Moore (Hank Kimball from Green Acres, who also produced The Witchmaker and Brotherhood of Satan and appears in this film as Dr. Moore) and director L. Q. Jones (an actor in movies like The Beast Within and The Wild Bunch who also wrote Brotherhood of Satan), which Ellison was either somewhat happy with or totally upset with, depending on who tells the story. What is known is that he was unhappy with Blood's final line: "Well, I'd certainly say she had marvelous judgement, Albert…if not particularly good taste." The book ends differently, with Vic remembering a question that Quilla had asked of him: "Do you know what love is?" Vic finally remembers the answer: "Sure I know. A boy loves his dog."If you've ever played the video game Fallout, then you'll be delighted to learn how much comes from this film.Vic and Blood would have further adventures, even one tale where Ellison tried to off the pair due to either his dislike of the film's ending or being sick of fans asking for more stories about the duo. There was nearly a sequel, A Girl and His Dog, which would have had Blood team up with a female warrior named Spike.Read more at http://bit.ly/2hIuPZc

An interesting but uneven post-apocalyptic science fiction tale, based on a novel by famed writer Harlan Ellison. The biggest problem with this movie is the first half hour, a half hour which makes the rest of the film very hard to get into. There's a serious lack of pacing and action and scenes seem to drag on interminably with little going on to further the plot. Thankfully, a plot does finally arrive, and it has to be said a fairly original story, involving Vic being kidnapped to reproduce with the women living below the ground, because the subterranean conditions have turned all the men impotent. In the end, I did appreciate what this film was saying, and enjoyed the witticisms, but I definitely didn't enjoy it.Don Johnson appears at an early stage in his career, taking the lead role of Vic. Unfortunately, he's largely bland in the role, creating an uninteresting persona, but then again his character is a selfish one and hard to like. His relationship with the telepathic dog, Blood, is the film's most unusual factor and also its best; Tim McIntire is a delight as the voice of the world-weary hound and the two get to share some great banter. Susanne Benton is also very impressive as the mysterious girl that Vic meets and is eventually duped by. The sets and location go for realistic appeal rather than flashy, and while this works, it also makes the film very dull-looking and uninteresting. Although the finale, which involves an escape from a weird underground society with painted faces, is involving and there's a final surprise twist which comes as VERY unexpected, unfortunately before this there's just too much talk and not enough plot going on to make the film interesting, and the fact that the characters are largely unlikable also makes the film a difficult one to enjoy.

A strange apocalyptic tale about a boy and a dog. which seems exactly like what it says however the boy communicates with his dog telepathy and on the surface world it seems all civilisation is lost and they hunt for food and sex. I have to say and strange as it is, I find the relationship between the boy and the dog quite compelling. It takes another unsettling turn as he is lured into the underworld by a pretty girl and the boy discovers they have persevered the old ways of society and they plan to use him to procreate. This is a disturbing, bizarre and completely crazy story but you sort of can't help but be intrigue by it. Definitely not one for the easily offended. Not sure it is the sort of film you can say you enjoyed but definitely one to remember. If you want to watch this you can purchase it from: http://hddvd- revived.com/index.php? page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=1&category_ id=1&keyword=a+boy+and+his+dog&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1They sell HD DVD and standard DVD version, the quality really good - they have work really hard to remaster and restore the films and it pays on for viewing enjoyment.

Interesting post-apocalyptic movie about a young man (Don Johnson) roaming around with his telepathic dog looking for food and sex. He meets a woman who lures him underground to a place that's unlike anything on the surface.The movie's written and directed by, of all people, western character actor L.Q. Jones. He adapted this from a Harlan Ellison short story. I haven't read the original so I don't know how much of this script is Ellison and how much is Jones. To be clear, the characterizations and dialogue are what make this movie entertaining. The story is nothing special, really. You've seen one post-apocalyptic movie, you've (at least partially) seen them all. It's a very repetitive subgenre of sci-fi. The idea here about the telepathic dogs only works so well because of the great dialogue in the film. Both the dog and Don Johnson's character are well-written and you care about them both throughout the movie. Well, maybe you care more about the dog. Anyway, it's not a bad movie despite some unpleasantness for the sake of the 'dread god realism.' Give it a shot if you like sci-fi of this type or just cult '70s movies in general.