A Boy and His Dog | Post-Apocalypse | Don Johnson | Classic Drama Film

[@aidanmercer9422]

This film was an inspiration to many post apocalyptic media like Fallout, Mad Max, Fist of The North Star. Classic that deserves more attention.

[@trhansen3244]

Ummmmm. It's 2/3rds of a good movie. The last part is truly awful. And the big shock at the end? Come on, man!

[@youcantbeatk7006]

@@trhansen3244 Cope and seethe.

[@belltolls1984]

Absolutely! This film in responsible for my favorite games and other films I hold dear. It deserves way more recognition; without it my life would be empty.

[@Texasjim2007]

It was also obviously the inspiration for the misogynist Stewie and his talking dog Brian in "Family Guy."

[@zed6095]

just now watching it for the first time-- had no idea it was Don Johnson haha. I like him

[@Debbie338]

I saw this when it originally came out and several times since. Still timeless and Ellison is still a genius.

[@randomguy-dg9qf]

me too lol where old lol

[@sliceoflife4220]

My dad rented this movie for me when I was nine without reading that back. Lol gen x kid!

[@hijazzains]

He tot it was Peter and Jane stuff😅

[@meoff7602]

My dad let me watch it when I was like twelve. He owned it.

[@MaxstallfishDenton]

Lol...i've watched this on VHS as a kid with father...after "The Thing" movie.

[@kyddshine]

Pops told me I would like this flick at about thirteen or so, sci fi nuts. He had poster on wall in his home office. Since he was not allowed to hang it at work, when he was with Goodyear in energy production in Chillicothe, OH. Great film and one liners, like water.

[@sliceoflife4220]

You dude are my people. Love that we got to share a similar awesome experince.

[@williamphillips2060]

Cannot tell you how much I love the ending of this movie. Gotta stick by your best friend who's been there with you through thick and thin. 🙂

[@ArtflixMovieClassics]

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[@BuckROCKGROIN]

Harlan Ellison was based AF. Quilla is every single mom I've ever known and Vic is every baby daddy ever.

[@antondavidovic3996]

Quilla was just vile, manipulative and most likely didn't really love Vic, I wholeheartedly agree with the ending of this movie...

[@BuckROCKGROIN]

@@antondavidovic3996 just like most single moms. Vic also just did a simple cost benefit analysis. He can get another hope Hoe, he can't get another sapient telepathic dog.

[@IIsLazy]

Mother fricking Giga chad serves the thot who lied to him and almost killed him as food to help his dearest friend

[@spoogemop]

"Well, I'd certainly say she had marvellous judgment, Albert, if not particularly good taste."

[@kristinabliss]

Just when I thought this couldn't get anymore disturbing... 😮

[@petshop5941]

Fantastic line.

[@ghostdude1163]

Watched this movie cause I read that the Fallout video games were partially inspired by it. Watching it I can tell where fallout took some things from this movie and put it into fallout. Like the screamers became glowing ghouls. A dog companion named dog meat in the movie became a dog companion named dog meat in almost every game. Robots that look identical to humans (Micheal from downunder) became synths in fallout. A underground closed ecological system (the downunder) became the vaults. How the people act in the downunder is like it's the 1940's-1950s became fallout's atom punk retro futuristic feeling. Also how the downunder had super weird and strict rules also became the experiments that VAULT TEC ran in each vault.

[@hyperion3145]

Most of the things, especially the ghouls/screamers, actually came from Wasteland which was the primary basis for Fallout and had some of the same developers. The first Fallout's plot is also very similar to Wasteland's right down to the big bad being mutant purists that are killed when you meltdown their station.

[@darklink569]

Yeah, even some of the crude but satiric scenes have the same kind of humor that Fallout has

[@Femaiden]

actually, the dog's name is "Blood". he just calls him dogmeat when they are arguing

[@ToTheMaxGaming1]

If you like fallout watch mad max 2, one of the biggest inspirations for it

[@HouseholdDog]

Have a look at "Damnation Alley" especially if you want to see Rad Scorpions. Fallout was inspired by a ton of films and video games.

[@lectrichobo6478]

One of the most sublime, well-done post-apocalyptic sci-fi hayrides of all-time.

[@ArtflixMovieClassics]

Thanks for watching :)

[@rjbz554]

not sci-fi...

[@josephdavis1704]

@@rjbz554 It is sci fi you mouth breather

[@drkalowski256]

@@rjbz554 considered sci-fi back in Harlen Ellison's day

[@BuckROCKGROIN]

@@rjbz554 What do you call a genetically modified sapient telepathic dog where you come from?

[@schnoz2372]

That dog is a great actor. Memorized a lot of lines that’s for sure

[@VirgilTStone]

Don't be fooled. It's NOT a talking dog. They used a cat for voice over. Dogs can't talk.

[@BLUECREEK333]

You need a cat scan.

[@lostcat9lives322]

@@VirgilTStone It was a dog that did the voice over. Both cats and dogs can talk. Difference is cats don't give a shit.

[@wyldebyll3089]

Cats can talk, but why should they waste their time conversing with humans? It serves no purpose, they already run the house and humans. If they talked, they wouldn't discuss anything, they'd just ask for more things to be put on the table/counter to push off.

[@mikevanroy9356]

Yes and the cameraman was brave too.

[@arthurpimentel7467]

The year... Is 2024! Awake!

[@Pizzaa728]

👀

[@patriciacole8773]

This is a spiritual battle over worship. Jesus in Gethsemane encouraged his disciples to pray. Staying awake would provide them with the power of faith during the dark trial ahead. Remember the fourth commandment KJV reminds us of Genesis 2:2&3. Jesus is our example.

[@chrisgrill6302]

​@@patriciacole8773Yawn. Please keep your delusions to yourself.

[@SirDurpal0t]

Amen

[@thechad76]

"i gotta get back in the dirt so i feel clean" what a line. damn.

[@slizzardshroomer9666]

He actually said "I gotta get back in the dirt so I feel clean"

[@SomthingAwful]

​grammar pays I see

[@haroldk3913]

This film is one of the underrated 1970's scifi films of a post nuclear war world. It is definitely in the genre of Planet of the Apes, The Omega Man, Soylent Green, and Mad Max type story. A Boy and His Dog have common elements to each of these. Although this film is light compared to the four, I mentioned on violence, it is no less dystopian in the world it depicts. Don Johnson is superb in this. Everything he does is great acting. Now that Don Johnson is older, I would love to see him star in a remake of Soylent Green. I think that would be fantastic.

[@Michelle-rb2mz]

It's 2024 the senseless violence people down stairs clowns!the committee rules are we living the life are what???

[@SamukySan]

I was scared because people were complaining about the ending, but boy, it was absolutely amazing!

[@kawikalavin8353]

The ending made me laugh my ass off and I whole heartedly agree with him feeding her to his dogs he had too

[@josephdavis1704]

One of the best endings ive ever seen. if the roles were reversed no one would be complaining

[@Aaron-zt5ee]

The ending is fine. There’s nothing misogynistic about it.

[@Dorkeydaze]

It’s gross he’s implied to be a cannibal. Also I don’t particularly care for the girl but I don’t actually think feeding her to a literal dog is really all the at great

[@redeye8526]

@@Dorkeydaze a telepathic genius dog that has saved his life numerous times or an evil manipulative girl , tough choice lol

[@amuroray9115]

Watched this film a few years back. This film represents humans at their most basic. The protagonist only cares about food, shelter, and sex. I can see why it inspired so many post apocalyptic series. It’s far in the future (not anymore since 2024 is close) but humanity has nuked themselves into being so primitive. I wonder if Adventure Time took influence from this film. Lol

[@wes11bravo]

Wow! Yes, now that you mention it, Adventure Time is heavily indebted to this film, at least on an elemental level. Adventure Time, Regular Show, and The Amazing World of Gumball are the main shows my daughter and I watched and laughed at incessantly when she was younger.

[@SwordTune]

Food, shelter, sex, but most importantly dog. Always gotta have dog.

[@Andrey158-2]

Три самых инстинктивных и естественных потребностей человека по мере убывания важности в постапокалипсисе - именно в таком порядке)))

[@MsJoesmith95]

RIP Harlan Ellison. Thank you for this fantastic tale!!!! May your spirit live on through your work!!!!

[@stefanripolli4237]

Étrange film et une source d'inspiration pour tant d'autres films post-apocalyptiques tournés ultérieurement. Merci pour le partage.

[@jeffsmith8197]

In the late 80s I rented three movies from a Blockbuster store and discovered when I got home that I grabbed this one by accident. I saw the title and was pissed at myself for renting a kids' movie until I read the description on the cover. It became a movie I rented every once in a while and I still like it. The ending is perfect and is one you would never see today.

[@SirDurpal0t]

Never

[@JeanieCunningham-t6z]

This movie was filmed at Fort Irwin in the Mohave desert, CA. My Grandpa was a Col. there at the time and I guess the producers asked if the officers wanted to be in a movie. My grandparents said yes, not knowing what the movie was about and you can see them being sentenced to death for some such reason at around 1:00:24. They have both been gone a long time. It's a trip seeing them alive again!

[@SirDurpal0t]

Wow! That's so awesome

[@jondstewart]

Vic was without any moral constraints, but he didn’t know any better and lived like this most of his life. Quilla June was cunning and wanted Vic to think she was forced to make him come to her downunder society, but it was her way of using him as a pawn to help her overthrow the committee and take over. He didn’t take the bait in the long run and helped his dog. 😄

[@alexcavazos3341]

Yeah vic was a neutral or low karma character. My boy was ready to take those cheeks for himself. It makes sense in their world tho, dark and dreary. He's nor evil, but he's definitely Nora good person

[@trhansen3244]

All well and good but those were not the problems with this film. It was Topeka! That silly underground garbage town. I was watching this very good post-apocalyptic movie, with great dialogue and interesting scenes and then, SUDDENLY, he goes down and visits this insipid place called Topeka. Ruined it!

[@ripme6616]

Get a dog up ya

[@centurionl]

how does it ruin it? it's a simulated utopia that is actually just a weird and creepy dystopia. @@trhansen3244

[@SirDurpal0t]

​@@trhansen3244 waah

[@chrisporter6316]

I first saw this movie as a little kid in the 80s on TV, the things our parents used to let us kids watch back then! This movie never left me and was imprinted on my young impressionable mind and bits would appear in my dreams for many years afterwards! I thoroughly enjoyed this weird movie back then and still do! The bunker people used too freak me out! Hope everybody out there has a great day!

[@8uyhghggfcmjt]

Same

[@ministryoftruth9916]

Same, typical gen x lol

[@tazzthedoodle7861]

Me too lol

[@willshaw6405]

I met Harlan at a lecture he gave at my California university one evening--funny, clever man. His dog Abhu was the inspiration for the story...worth a search on Google.

[@comfyactor]

Best post-apocalyptic story ever. Ellison was a genius.

[@trhansen3244]

He never won any Pulitzers.

[@GorpaDorpOrp]

I love that the intro, which is the only part Ellison wrote, has to be censored today. I feel like he would cackle at the notion. May be RIP I miss him dearly

[@SirDurpal0t]

What'd I miss?

[@Refuse2Lose33]

Why do I feel like this movie is becoming more and more like reality nowadays? Even the talking dog lol

[@stevekaspar1396]

So true. I swear dogs are getting smarter and smarter. I believe in a few hundred years or more they will communicate a lot more than they even do now

[@frankmoyer5822]

Only two years away.

[@c_schuster]

@@frankmoyer5822 must be crazy for the people who saw it when it came out

[@annaeller5884]

That is a cyborg dog that's why it talks and has a sick kind humor lol

[@davidklein1667]

@@c_schuster it is!!! I use to see it at an all nite underground movie show!

[@IggyGoesPop666]

This film had the best ending ever, talk about a bond between a boy and his dog as its more genuine than what you have with a bit of fluff 🤣🤣🤣

[@sebas8225]

This boy is the reason dogs are man's best friend!

[@Venomanonthe1st]

She did have good taste 😂

[@jondstewart]

L.Q. Jones actually made a convincing low-.budget sci-fi film shooting the post WW3 scenes at Coyote Dry Canyon near Barstow, Ca. and the downunder sequences were shot at a park and town hall in Ventura, Ca. And a useless piece of trivia: the man guarding the makeshift movie theater played the voice of Pinocchio in the 1940 film.

[@gauloiseguy]

'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.' -Hunter S Thompson. I'm prepping for the apocalypse. One bottle of Scotch short of plenty to drink my way through it.

[@babagalacticus]

who only recently died (2014) & was the last surviving member of that cast. but there are a goodly number of VERY interesting actors in this cast, almost a 'who's who' of hollywood history. what's MOST fascinating is that L.Q.JONES not only directed a post apocalyptic flick but that it's also so damn GOOD, a classic in fact. not what 1 would expect from a TX boy who made a solid living in westerns (as both actor & director).

[@BigPoppieSeed]

@@gauloiseguy I learned how to make and distill tequila because I've got a bunch of blue agave around here on my property.

[@gauloiseguy]

@@BigPoppieSeed I own a microstill and know how to use it. Cheers 😎

[@markwinsor446]

Another piece of useless trivia. r Haney from Green Acres ;)

[@bennyconk]

To anyone who sees this comment and is interested in the lore In the comic, Vic actually feels great remorse for killing Quila Jane. She actually liked him considering he did a terrible thing. But he grew up in such a crazy world where all the humanity is left only in Blood The Dog and Quila Jane made him feel. His humanity was gained through liking her but Blood of course was about to die so Vic had to save him. Later on he gets so depressed and Blood being telepathic. He notices this and from the remorse of Vic, Blood keeps seeing the ghost of Quila Jane. In the end they end up running away from Felini. The dude with the boys (real messed up btw, don’t look into it) and Vic and Blood end up in a spiders nest. Where Vic sprains his ankle, and when that happens. The spiders get to Vic and because he feels so bad. He lets the spiders eat him. Blood hates to leave him because Vic was literally his son. He taught him everything. Blood ends up not seeing the ghost of Jane anymore but the ghost of Vic. And the final line is, “What ever happened to man’s best friend”.

[@agent2608]

The author had killed vic off for the sole reason that he wanted people to stop asking for more stories on vic and blood

[@bennyconk]

@@agent2608 that’s pretty funny 😂

[@guidadiehl9176]

Don't think Vic was "literally" Blood's son, friend...

[@bennyconk]

@@guidadiehl9176 no of course not I didn’t say specifically that it’s his literal biological child. He looked after the boy. As if it he were his son and he doesn’t have superiority over him as he’s a dog. And no I’m not your “friend”. You passive aggressive fiend

[@zozocecp]

@@guidadiehl9176Language changes. If you’re too dumb to realize that it’s your own problem

[@pajamapantsjack5874]

Considering it’s 2024, it’s due for a rewatch! As an adventure time fan I always loved this movie as a kid, obv a big influence and still holds up after 50~ years!

[@b.ericbradley8915]

L.Q. Jones has left the building. RIP, sir.

[@phoghat]

Thanks!

[@ArtflixMovieClassics]

🎬❤️

[@Glowbox3D]

I've loved this movie since I was 10, back in '86. Still a great movie. Love seeing YT offer these up for free.

[@ishmael802]

This movie has 10/10 aura. Saw this on Netflix 11 years ago and just read to book. Had to see it again

[@Cuppamilky]

Saw this on HBO about 12 years ago or more late one night. Must’ve been around 15 years old. So glad I didn’t change the channel. This movie is something else.

[@juantron4517]

“War. War never changes"

[@CrypticCocktails]

Say the line!

[@SirDurpal0t]

Yeeaa

[@optimisticcosmic]

I prefer movies like this. Heavy on the storyline. Nitty gritty visuals. No CGI. Movies nowadays is like watching a video game.

[@centurionl]

what do you mean they're like watching a video game?

[@magnuskallas]

@@centurionl He means watching crap green screen CGI not that different from a modern video game cutscene...

[@phu303]

​@@centurionllulz

[@SirDurpal0t]

​@@centurionl ever tried to watch a video game? Yea.

[@tarheelrealist8935]

I love this flick... An item of note: In the film The Book of Eli, there's a movie poster of "A Boy and His Dag" hanging on the wall of the room Eli stayed at Carnegie's insistence.

[@elainelytle9704]

Will have to check it. Loved that movie.

[@dallyuk]

thats what brought me to this movie today

[@leahcim38]

Wow that's some cool trivia.

[@SirDurpal0t]

I knew I saw the title before!

[@lunarkingdom]

@7:42 "in 2006 that's 18 years ago you came into this world" that would make it 2024! LMAO!

[@Acorn905]

I think it said in the start that it was 2024

[@wsrichardson5796]

A Boy and His Dog is a cycle of narratives by author Harlan Ellison. The cycle tells the story of an amoral boy (Vic) and his telepathic dog (Blood), who work together as a team to survive in the post-apocalyptic world after a nuclear war. The original 1969 novella was adapted into the 1975 film A Boy and His Dog directed by L.Q. Jones. Both the story and the film were well-received by critics and science fiction fans, but the film was not successful commercially. The original novella was followed by short stories and a graphic novel. (And by the way, the original story by Ellison and the movie both predate the first Mad Max movie in 1979.)

[@Dr170]

Did Wikipedia become sentient all of a sudden?

[@jasonmelendez5216]

My dad told me to watch this after I fell in love with the Mad Max trilogy. He said he liked the joke at the end (them and eating the girl). Love you dad.

[@SirDurpal0t]

She had good taste

[@DaxSports1]

Who else is here in 2024 ✋ 😅

[@rustynail7609]

I saw your mom.

[@LordLocos829]

Me me

[@wertdeg]

✋

[@vernexport]

Me !!

[@ministryoftruth9916]

I saw this as a kid, "I don't know what weapons will be used in WWIII, but I know WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones"

[@ANProductionsOfficialChannel]

The screamer sequence really is freaky! Great sound design on the creatures too. Wonderful movie!

[@ArtflixMovieClassics]

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[@nickherer1501]

They have now become feral ghouls

[@christophersnedeker2065]

Look into CS Lewis and George MacDonald.

[@hastur-thekinginyellow8115]

@@nickherer1501 Screamers are much worse than feral ghouls. If the grab you, they are likely taking whatever they grabbed with them and then turning the rest of you into radioactive slop.

[@travellingshoes5241]

Was this screamer scene cut from this version?

[@machinistpro140]

i saw this when it 1st came out, and have been hoping to find a copy somewhere for 47 years - - got it - thanks

[@SirDurpal0t]

That is awesome

[@TheHonoredMadman]

Don Johnson still one of the best actors around. Dude is great in everything

[@boke75]

Agree, great actor. Maybe his good looks hampered him for great roles. Career started off with a bang with movie and was the It boy of the late 70's. Fell into some dark times then resurfaced in the 80's with Miami Vice and restored his career. His daughter Dakota looks very similar to him. She's gorgeous but just a passable actress unlike her dad.

[@anthonykirsch6482]

that part where vic is about to go under and blood says so long partner absolutely broke me. same with when vic found him still waiting

[@haroldwhitney6130]

This is a great movie. As I get older, I appreciate the story more and more.

[@helmuttdvm]

I remember seeing this when it came out. Nice to see a young Don Johnson.

[@porridgedemon5649]

World War III - Hot and Cold

[@JoaquinPhoenix-s3k]

This is arguably the Greatest Film Ever Made and one of the Best Sci-Fi Films of all time. If you loved Idiocracy and Logan's Run, than you'll love this Film. It even Pre-dated Mad Max and a it's kind of a Horror Thriller like A Clockwork Orange and Get Out, A Boy and his Dog, really disturbing, but bloody brilliant.

[@HouseholdDog]

Love how nobody can see anybody on completely flat desert.

[@Xterminate13]

But it isn’t flat….

[@donitaforrest9064]

And how the dog wasn't stew for the savages.

[@schnoz2372]

@@donitaforrest9064 because they are useful for hunting. Would be like eating your rifle.

[@countfosco1]

@@schnoz2372 Except he couldn't hunt to save his life. He just could smell women! What? It was their time of month?

[@grizzlyblackpowder1960]

​@@countfosco1hunting doesn't always have to be for food. And a dog that can smell people at all and tell you about it, is worth more than a single meal.

[@robwalsh9843]

George Miller was influenced by A Boy and His Dog when he made the Mad Max series. It's probably the most important post-apocalyptic movie ever made.

[@ladonnavoorhies760]

This movie shows the true of love between a man and best friend while keeping you intrigued with excitement,. DENNY VOORHIES

[@jesterday2222]

Don Johnson! 🥰 He will turn 75 years old this coming December. I have never seen this movie, so happy I found it here on your great channel.

[@theflyinghamster8442]

How come his dog sounds so smart and my dog sounds like Curly off The three Stooges !!!!

[@CaptApple]

First saw this at the Hotel San Diego in '77 during the San Diego ComiCon. It was on the hotel's closed circuit TV system just for the con so we saw it in the rooms. Pretty snazzy for the times. Loved it. The con had like 1000 attendees that year : ).

[@kuzz7919]

I recall the ending being different when I seen back in 1975??? Maybe I was high back then ?? It was the girl saying that they would have to eat the dog and next you seen a fire pit and the camera pans at the fire.... next Vic...then it panned over to ....the dog. What a happy ending for a boy and his dog :)

[@cooperjames4736]

You and I both brother, I was HAF and It took 2 days before the Ending sunk in!! Lol!

[@SirDurpal0t]

​@@cooperjames4736 wow🤣

[@ranchokitty1]

I remember this film showing on the midnight (11:30) circuit around my hometown in Tidewater VA in the mid 70s, they even had radio ads that were funny saying something like A boy and his Dog isn't what you think it is... also these liner notes fail to mention that the producer of this film, Alvy Moore was Mr Kimball on Green Acres, " Good Day to you, Mr Douglas well it isn't that good of a day... then again it isn't a bad day either..."

[@patricktilton5377]

Harlan Ellison was critical -- overly, I think -- of the way the ending played out, specifically the joke Blood makes about the girl not having particularly good taste. In my opinion, though, that doesn't take away from the horror of what had just happened: Vic killed her, cooked up some of her to feed his dog, then packed away what remained of her remains to cook up later on. Vic had plenty of reason not to trust her, despite the fact that she rescued him from the hospital. But he knew he could trust Blood. Maybe there are those who can love those they know they can't trust, but in a harsh world where a misplaced trust can get you killed, trust is probably a more valuable commodity than anything else. She told Vic that she loved him, but he knew it was just words she didn't mean; she was just trying to manipulate him for her own benefit. One must wonder if, prior to this moment, Vic had ever killed another human being and -- out of desperation -- cannibalized him or her, for his own sake and for his dog. Seeing it again, after about a decade since I last saw it, I have a hunch that she wasn't the first desperate cannibal meal Vic and Blood had had to resort to eating.

[@petshop5941]

Blood's man's best friend, he stuck by Blood and Blood did everything to nurture and take care of Vic throughout the flick. He made the right choice at the end, as horrific as it is, this is the apocalypse n stuff.

[@SirDurpal0t]

The way he spoke about the dead girl in the beginning he's probably killed many people for the same reasons.

[@SirDurpal0t]

​@@petshop5941 she probably would have ate the dog if he didn't eat her first

[@dljordan]

Saw this at the Belcourt Cinema in Nashville, Tn. Stoned out of my mind. I've never forgotten it.

[@zozocecp]

*spoilers* My boyfriend and I watched this, when it got to the part where Blood said they couldn’t go to town to get food and the chick was talking about “Well, you love me” he made a “they’re gonna eat her” joke…. Then they did 😭 Most silent 5 minutes we ever had. The acting n cinematography was great in that ending scene though. You could already tell and the way he was shadowed out first before her

[@JoeyDaytona]

Unforgettable. Saw it in the late 80s on a double bill with The Atomic Café.

[@sheilad83]

That was the craziest movie I've ever seen! Funny how we can kinda relate to it as today isn't far from this scenario

[@nettewilson5926]

Great short story. The only real love that existed in this world was between the boy and his dog.

[@spsniper1170]

This is cool to me as my ex fiance an her family are extras in the movie..for those who are familiar..in the scene w here the brides are standing in a hallway in white makeup, the camera pans down the line..then focuses up close for a spit 2 seconds right in the face of the last girl..that was my ex, Stephanie..she was 15 at the time of the filming..in the church scene, that's her mom n dad an brother n sister in the left side pews

[@thomascestaro252]

Excellent backstory! Please post the time for an easy find.

[@SirDurpal0t]

Crazy

[@v8falconute46]

I read the book maybe 40 years ago, always (half) remembered it. Loved the book and loved watching this. 😎👍 thank you ARTFLIX.

[@julieisthatart]

I loved this movie when it first appeared. Watched it many times, and it gets funnier as I age. Thanks for putting it here.

[@elchiflado.mp4]

51:13 almost make me choke up😢. I really feel bad for both Vic and Blood. Man’s best friend.

[@radarstationalexchiander4285]

Magnum Opus of this film genre . Watch this when I was 14 on cable tv in Texas . My dad was cool.

[@cneterer]

Harlan Ellison wasn't completely happy with this, but he was never happy. A writer's strike hit at the same time filming began so he couldn't write the script as originally planned. That fell onto the director. On first viewing, he was furious with the dialogue but was told there was no money to make another try. So, with a trailer already public, he grabbed up the film strips of the outtakes and auctioned them off at a sci-fi convention he was attending. Literally clutching a paper bag full of cash, he gave it to the studio to finance new dialogue.

[@TheBubbaZinetti]

Check out Vic & Blood, graphic novel by Ellison and drawn by Richard Corben

[@GorpaDorpOrp]

He didn't write the script due to writers bloc, not because of a strike.

[@cneterer]

@@GorpaDorpOrp Harlan Ellison having writer's block??

[@cneterer]

@@TheBubbaZinetti Dark Horse Comics once published a series made of only Ellison stories. My favorite was the adaptation of "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" with art by the legendary John Bryne.

[@jacksypher3403]

Even if he wasnt happy he very much so was passionate about his writing from the sound of it

[@markhoffman505]

I recently became interested in the life and career of Tim McIntire. I'd known about "A Boy and His Dog" for decades but had never seen it until now, being led here after learning Tim did the dogs voice. Well, I think L.Q. Jones did an outstanding job as writer and director. Kudos to the set designer, too. And Susanne Benton is ideal as the conniving love interest.

[@TheHonoredMadman]

One of the best post apocalypse films. Harlan ellison at his best but in movie form on behalf of the late great LQ jones i what i think was his only outing as a director

[@StarLabs3D]

Thank you for posting!🎉

[@thinkpadBentnoseTheBlind]

this may have been the first time i saw Don J in a film. i liked it then and like it now

[@allancrotch2953]

Cannot believe at 66 yrs old I had never heard of never mind seen this movie .Fantastic .

[@williebeamish5879]

68 here. Same. Must've been busy, not bored like I am now.

[@elainelytle9704]

@@williebeamish5879 ditto. 66 and not heard of this film. Watching now.

[@grokeffer6226]

Harlan Ellison's stories were frequently this type of thing. Very quirky. Off-kilter. With an odd twist.

[@i_am_a_freespirit]

Just think, this movie was made in 1975 and it now is the year 2021. In the beginning of the movie it said that the post apocalypse is in 2024...so only three more years to prepare for what...?

[@ArtflixMovieClassics]

🎬❤️

[@42D6JD210C]

Two more years. Hope I last that long, I was working on the Alaska pipe line when this movie came out. Liked it then like it now.

[@creed22solar123]

@@42D6JD210C I hope you do too, sir. All the best to you.

[@chriskariaku8067]

Its between now to 2023, maybe. The war has just begun!!

[@peta30000]

And now ukraine and russia

[@zinniemae]

Saw this movie many many many years ago when it first appeared on VHS. Good movies never grow old.

[@johnstallings4049]

Cult Classic 101! Thanks for sharing this with us! ☆☆☆☆

[@randomchannel83838]

So glad i was recommended this and so happy to find it thank you 😊🍿

[@ArtflixMovieClassics]

👍

[@patrickpatel5527]

I’ve just purchased it on Blue ray and came on KZbin to check other people’s opinions and now I realise it is free 😂 maybe I ought to keep it because who knows how long it will be here before they take it off

[@SirDurpal0t]

Hey will you watch it post what the differences are?

[@GrumblingGrognard]

Absolute greatness... LQ Jones rocks, but Ellison was right about the final line. ;) [his cameo is @20:40]

[@SirDurpal0t]

Cool thank you for sharing, but you're dead wrong about the final line if you mean it was a bad line

[@55tranquility]

I somehow read this story when i was around 11 or 12, think it was in a book of short stories - it was gritty even being that young i remember thinking hmmm not sure i should be reading this, it was pretty cruel but i read it anyway. When i found out there was a film based on it i wondered how the dog would speak without looking ridiculous, now i know.

[@gauloiseguy]

2022 now. Doesn't seem like a mad idea anymore... We're probably gonna skip one WW but anyways... Edit: Nice to see a young Don Johnson in a low budget, well written and filmed, movie.

[@itsmyparty4637]

Timo van Tiel well said. :))

[@truthsword6772]

I looked up this movie because I saw a poster for this movie in the background on the set of “The Book of Eli”

[@laankebygg3685]

Wonderful movie with a dog that had a very English type of dry humour. Loved it all. A true fact here as well as dogs are very faithful.

[@MacNuada]

"All humour I like is English", no wonder the West is dying. You must be a brit or anglophile

[@AlienBigCat23]

Harlan Ellison, the most awarded writer, ever.

[@gradyh9871]

This is not about the future. But what has already happened.

[@discodirk48]

And what will happen again.

[@moonpleiades99]

I wonder if we are in the underground now and do not know it.

[@SirDurpal0t]

​@@moonpleiades99 I have to say that is the best take on the "simulation theory" I've heard yet. It's still wrong though but fun to ponder

[@MrDarkmarius]

I saw this movie at age 5 & a half or 6. I could not follow it, BUT I NEVER FORGOT THE ENDING. I was under the impression that the guy & his dog ate a person & that they were discussing how good that person tasted. I NEVER FORGOT THAT & now here I am age 54. I somewhat recognized this movie. I fast forwarded it to see the end & if my memory was correct. I was

[@abcdef-kq2zg]

It's been around 40? years since I saw this on video. Like a great painting, the artistic value is unique to the time, place, and circumstances surrounding its creation. The insight into human nature is frightening because we can see the features of the same insanity in the people around us, past, present, and possible future. This time I saw the robots as a real possibility instead of something far far in the future. What was the better future? Those who were "free" on the surface or those who were "subjected" underground?

[@countfosco1]

@abcdef-kq2zg How is it you're intelligent while some of the (male?) posters on this forum need to be on meds?

[@1OnTheInternet]

OMG it's so high quality.

[@CrazyGamerDude17]

I don’t know if you mean to be rude by it was made in like 1975, it won’t have the best quality

[@1OnTheInternet]

@@CrazyGamerDude17 I'm not being sarcastic 💀. It genuinely (compared to other uploads/versions) has higher quality, and I was shocked.

[@MacNuada]

​@@1OnTheInternetIt is just everyone is rude and sarcastic now so people do not know if anyone is genuine or being a catty low T girl

[@moonpleiades99]

If she really loved him, she would have done anything to help his dog.

[@DJ-Brownie-UK]

so this film is implying females are incapable of falling in love with a man, and that all they care about is finding the man with the best shelter who can provide protection for her and her babies ,

[@Aaron-zt5ee]

@@DJ-Brownie-UK What makes you think this movie is saying that about all women?

[@Joe-wy2bn]

@@DJ-Brownie-UK Women like resources, that's mostly it.

[@countfosco1]

@@Joe-wy2bn Men follow their weenies.

[@Texasjim2007]

She was an idiot. She would have been better off staying with her father.

[@bananieldiamonds1921]

it hits different watching this in 2024 and ww3 around the corner.

[@Socialsocialsblahblah]

WW3 is not around the corner.

[@merlinmelon]

Probably*

[@GalacticExplorer_Edits33]

@@SocialsocialsblahblahMiddle east, Russia Ukraine, Taiwan and China tensions, yeah it’s safe to say that we are closer than Cold War, Israel was about to launch nukes at Iran I bet you didn’t know that!

[@brentt6714]

Eh, they were in the Cold War when this movie was made. Literally selling bomb shelters to rich folks and doing bomb drills for school students. It honestly probably hit harder then since they couldn't look *back* on the Cold War with the knowledge that the bombs wouldn't drop.

[@cathylindeboo.9598]

AAHHHGGGGG!!!!!!!

[@MrChiron12]

Rewatching this for another time and it's still one of my favorite movies.

[@napoliansolo7865]

BOO!! The scene where Aquila says we can eat the dog was cut! That was the movie.

[@D_A42]

"Name the Presidents" "Okay. Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy..." As dated as that joke is, its still funny. This film is filled with them.

[@D_A42]

@@kelaindiniter the Kennedys were a political family in the US. One was a president, and a bunch of them were senators when the movie was made. The joke is that in the "future" there would be 3 more president Kennedys in a row before the bombs fell.

[@MacNuada]

​@@D_A42Want a Furey dynasty? Fresh from Ireland

[@SirDurpal0t]

That gave me a good chuckle too

[@SirDurpal0t]

​@@D_A42 and guess who reared their head during the election haha

[@michaelcline3123]

just finished reading the book. this film is based on . A BOY AND HIS DOG AT THE END OF THE WORLD and got to say the movie is ALOT better.

[@wsrichardson5796]

So now I have to ask... How many people here have read Harlan Ellison's books and know the history of his screenplays? One of my own online screen names (in honor of) is "Cordwainer Bird", by the way. The novella ends with Vic remembering her (Quilla June's) question as Blood eats: "Do you know what love is?" and he concludes, "Sure I know. A boy loves his dog." 😜

[@jondstewart]

I read the book. The people in the downunder society were actually a lot nicer than they were in this. The powers that be were old fogies that hated anything unclean or offensive, but didn’t kill people that opposed them. Lew Craddock was a crotchety old man with rotten teeth in the book, but in the movie, just a crotchety 50-something (old in those days) that sent people to the farm for disobedience. Mez was a prim and easily offended woman in the book, but in the movie a very sly, eccentric, and holier-than-thou woman also sending people to the farm. The robot guard was acutely a mechanical robot, not a humanoid. And their society actually looked like they were in a bunker all claustrophobic and caged up.

[@AustinCG]

Totally an old world reset movie where Tartaria, Atlantis, Lemuria what ever you want to call it and technology was destroyed and or kept hidden after the plasma event / mudflood

[@peaou]

2024 is here, and I'm glad life is a bit better now than they had imagined 50 years ago. Can we hope that by 2080, life on Earth will be more than tolerable?

[@dielandwithyourmo]

unfortunately we have to deal with the rising of AI, the globally harming NFTs, and a lot of White supremist

[@dielandwithyourmo]

so it's unlikely

[@JorgeAzapata726]

2024 just began .. this movie has a lot of predictive programming. Nuclear war will happen in June. The End will start on “June 11th” Mark my words. Give your life to Jesus before it’s too late. ✝️🙏🏼

[@cathylindeboo.9598]

We can hope. Let's hope HARD....

[@Wotan-Born]

Lots of truth drops in this film, unbeknownst to the masses there have been many resets throughout this plane of existence, another reset/phoenix phenomena is coming, chronologically speaking.

[@thebroschannel]

This is pure fiction

[@Maximummoiton]

Who is here because of the fallout show? (I’ve played all the games many times over before I’m not new to the franchise)

[@SirDurpal0t]

I liked the show but it's definitely not why I'm here. How did it lead you here?

[@grayharker6271]

I saw this in the 812 cinema on cannery row, monterrey. When it came out. I see something new every time I watch it.

[@kingstonluna2008]

What makes this movie so disturbing is that it takes place in 2024

[@vincentvalentine5940]

why is that disturbing? It says world war 4 we didn't even had the third

[@JorgeAzapata726]

It’s going to happen for sure this year. Mark my words. Everything will start on June 11th in Seattle Washington.

[@GalacticExplorer_Edits33]

@@JorgeAzapata726wait why that certain date

[@broom8964]

@@GalacticExplorer_Edits33because he made it up on the spot

[@thegreencat9947]

Like the way George Orwell's "1984" scared me..

[@2bittesla]

Watching this on Memorial Day Weekend 2024, next 6 months will be interesting...