It's a Dog's Life

Dec 23, 1955

1h 28m

★ 3.0

GREAT ADVENTURE AND ROMANCE FROM THE FAMED STORY

Overview

A bull terrier tells his life story, from the streets of the Bowery to a life of luxury.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Cast

Patch McGill

Jeff Richards

Mabel Maycroft

Jarma Lewis

Jeremiah Edward Emmett Augustus Nolan

Edmund Gwenn

Mr. Wyndham

Dean Jagger

Tom Tattle

Willard Sage

Dorothy Wyndham

Sally Fraser

George Oakley

Richard Anderson

Paddy Corbin

J.M. Kerrigan

Wildfire

Wildfire (voice / uncredited)

Vic Morrow

Dog Catcher (uncredited)

Joe Besser

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

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