A boy's dog comes back from the war and has trouble remembering life at home. Just when it seems that the dog has remembered, he is kidnapped by a neighbor and "The Orange Man".
The main problem here is plot hole logic. At only an hour and 4 minutes, it passed quickly enough. The plot was implausible. Allow me to explain: Why would the army take a dog away from a small child? The child actor was 15 years old when this was filmed, but is clearly portraying a younger child. It is stated that the dog was away for about 2-3 years. It thus follows that the U.S. army took a dog from a 10 year old boy. The boy's older friend was in the war as well, but that doesn't help to explain much. Everything that happened was also predictable. I saw the baseball going through that window from miles away. I also knew that the boys would dump their bikes at the climax when they needed to move fast. Plot hole and predictability aside, the characters were not developed all that well. The antagonist showed more development than the protagonists! Dialogue and acting were extremely dated. "Gee, but you're a swell pal!" is almost a foreign language compared to modern American English. The sets and costumes were very mundane. The only special use set pieces were a barn with a ladder and a backyard with a fence bordering on a sidewalk. Camera-work was less than creative, but kept directional consistency. The audio was not so great. Dialogue mic volumes were clipping and all of the soundtrack music seemed major and happy. Everything about this film is very much of the time in which it was made. It has 6.7 on IMDB. I rate it tolerable because it wasn't pleasant enough to be called quaint.
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