Kinderpals,
I have a Name That Trauma and if anyone can help me to find the title I can promise him/her riches beyond imagining! (Which is tragic as they will need to imagine them as I am broke.)
Okay, a possibly made-for-T.V. movie with a GIL GERARD-ish-type male lead. Said male lead gets into a pissing match with a gang of untamed youth.
Traumatic scene:
Untamed youth lure the guy's St. Bernard out into the street and play catch with him while one of their friends plows pell-mell towards the dog in a car. They leave the dog's crumpled corpse on the male lead's front porch where he finds it and cries into its fur.
I had forgotten this until we adopted Homer, a St. Bernard, then it all came flooding back. He was most distressed when I told him about, but said that he felt strangely compelled to see it. So, to satisfy his want for canine horror, I really need to figure this out.
Thanks,
Dylan Donnie-Duke Dali Lama
UPDATE: NAME THAT TRAUMA SOLVED! Let's all give a big KINDERTRAUMA salute and welcome back hug to SENSKI who came out of hibernation today and solved this one with 1973's OUTRAGE! (We love you SENSKI!)
Oh man, I have been so worthless lately — it's great to finally get one! This is 1973's Outrage.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070497/
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That sounds good. Apparently Rob Lowe made a TV remake of it in the 90s, but none of the synopsis Ive found mention a dog. Just Rob Lowes car and his pregnant wife Jennifer Grey. NETFLIX has that version and Ill rent it although I KNOW the 70s version is probably 100 times better.
These 70s vigilante movies really shaped me as a teenager growing up in New York. I remember once a guy tryed to steal my purse and I stood there fighting with him about it! I finally punched me in the face and got the purse. And what was IN the purse? Probably two dollars. But it was the PRINCIPAL of the thing! I didnt sit thru all those DEATH WISH movies for nuthin!
The comments on the imdb page mention his dog as being a St. Bernard in the '73 version — perhaps that's an element that was faithfully recreated for the remake as well.
I had no idea there was a remake of this movie. I have the original but have only watched the first few minutes. Robert Culp was a major badass!
Holy dogs! My dad's been telling me about this one for a long time, but I could never find it (is there even a DVD available?).
Mucho thanks Unk, for finding it on Youtube! Hopefully I can sit my dad in front of his computer one day so he can watch it.
Oh, Senski!!! You have made my year!!! To say that this one has haunted me for a while would be an understatement. It was sheer stubbornness that kept me from sending it in, because I was sure that I would find it myself.
Where in the world my garbled memory swapped Robert Culp for Gil Gerard I will never know. Though, as I was likely '80 when I saw this at the tender age of 9, I am surprised that I was even that close.
Thanks so much for helping me to reawaken the horror of the squashed Wampa-doggy!
I will watch it on youtube tonight with faithful Homer at my side. I may have to cover his eyes for the offending scene, however. A St. Bernard running in fear might level our house.
I could have sworn you were talking about Hear No Evil with Gil Gerard. Wasn't there a St. Bernard in that one too?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084057/
Love you too, guys!