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I have been unable to find any information about the film in the headline above.
I saw it only once, on late night television on a Michigan station in the 1960's. (It could possibly have been a British film.) It had a moral message and a protagonist somewhat similar to Scrooge in Dicken's "A Christmas Carol."
Briefly, a wealthy, insensitive and abusive businessman miraculously is turned into a dog, retaining his human mental capacity and memory, and is faced with the difficulty of survival as a dog. Ironically, he is able to accomplish this by befriending a young boy to whom he had been unkind before his transformation, and who, of course, sees him only as a stray dog, and, soon, his dog. When, near the end of the film, unknown to the child, the man is restored to his human form - and the dog disappears, the boy is brokenhearted. The conclusion is a very touching scene in which the man, whom the boy knew only as an antagonist, attempts to form a relationship with him without telling him the unbelievable truth, and eventually simulates a game they used to play, known only to the two of them - by getting on all fours, and finding, picking up with his mouth, and dropping at the boy's feet, the very twig that the boy used to throw for him to retrieve. The boy, suddenly enlightened, tearfully exclaims, "You're...my... dog!"
The man was played by an actor I can best describe as being reminiscent of Peter Ustinov. The setting, as I recall it, was an industrial city, possible in the early twentieth century.
No research I have attempted has yielded any information to indicate that this film ever existed, and I can't understand how such a well realized and entertaining film could have disappeared without leaving a trace. Can Wikipedia solve the mystery? Curious in NYC ( talk)
I bought the Sharpe 16 DVD Box Set Collection (second-hand) as a present for someone but the 19th Century Battle Map wasn't with it. Does anyone knoe where can I get a copy of it ? -- 90.152.3.186 ( talk) 12:52, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
I got it from I store called Cash Converters, I that helps. 90.152.3.186 ( talk) 11:05, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
I think that that was they only copy that they had in the store. 90.152.3.186 ( talk) 11:34, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
I was shopping tonight and heard a song that I liked. The rest of the music playing in the shop was certainly current charting stuff, so I'll assume the one I'm trying to find is too. I've tried the BBC's top 40 list and couldn't find it, and I tried searching for the small part of the chorus that I think I heard right (but I'm not sure if I did). The singer is male, it has a faintly pop vibe, the intro starts with lovely keyboard melodies, and I think part of the chorus is something like, "come back to me naked". (I don't know if the word was actually naked, I was trying to decipher it at the time but couldn't). Any ideas? 92.13.73.2 ( talk) 20:30, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
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I have been unable to find any information about the film in the headline above.
I saw it only once, on late night television on a Michigan station in the 1960's. (It could possibly have been a British film.) It had a moral message and a protagonist somewhat similar to Scrooge in Dicken's "A Christmas Carol."
Briefly, a wealthy, insensitive and abusive businessman miraculously is turned into a dog, retaining his human mental capacity and memory, and is faced with the difficulty of survival as a dog. Ironically, he is able to accomplish this by befriending a young boy to whom he had been unkind before his transformation, and who, of course, sees him only as a stray dog, and, soon, his dog. When, near the end of the film, unknown to the child, the man is restored to his human form - and the dog disappears, the boy is brokenhearted. The conclusion is a very touching scene in which the man, whom the boy knew only as an antagonist, attempts to form a relationship with him without telling him the unbelievable truth, and eventually simulates a game they used to play, known only to the two of them - by getting on all fours, and finding, picking up with his mouth, and dropping at the boy's feet, the very twig that the boy used to throw for him to retrieve. The boy, suddenly enlightened, tearfully exclaims, "You're...my... dog!"
The man was played by an actor I can best describe as being reminiscent of Peter Ustinov. The setting, as I recall it, was an industrial city, possible in the early twentieth century.
No research I have attempted has yielded any information to indicate that this film ever existed, and I can't understand how such a well realized and entertaining film could have disappeared without leaving a trace. Can Wikipedia solve the mystery? Curious in NYC ( talk)
I bought the Sharpe 16 DVD Box Set Collection (second-hand) as a present for someone but the 19th Century Battle Map wasn't with it. Does anyone knoe where can I get a copy of it ? -- 90.152.3.186 ( talk) 12:52, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
I got it from I store called Cash Converters, I that helps. 90.152.3.186 ( talk) 11:05, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
I think that that was they only copy that they had in the store. 90.152.3.186 ( talk) 11:34, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
I was shopping tonight and heard a song that I liked. The rest of the music playing in the shop was certainly current charting stuff, so I'll assume the one I'm trying to find is too. I've tried the BBC's top 40 list and couldn't find it, and I tried searching for the small part of the chorus that I think I heard right (but I'm not sure if I did). The singer is male, it has a faintly pop vibe, the intro starts with lovely keyboard melodies, and I think part of the chorus is something like, "come back to me naked". (I don't know if the word was actually naked, I was trying to decipher it at the time but couldn't). Any ideas? 92.13.73.2 ( talk) 20:30, 22 October 2012 (UTC)