I'm sure in its conception A Dog's Best Friend might have looked like a nice boy and dog story. But when it actually got made it really doesn't come off that good.
A sullen young Roger Mobley making his big screen debut is a foster child for Bill Williams and his wife Marcia Henderson. He befriends a wild German Shepherd and discovers the dog has a .38 caliber pistol in its possession as well.
At the same time an old miser hermit was found shot to death and his hoard of cash taken. The hermit was known to have a killer dog around for protection though it didn't do him that much good. The dog did however get a piece of one of the two robbers in this case Harry Dean Stanton in an early film for him.
All I can say is considering what the other robber did for a living, this could have and should have been a much better thought out crime. Stanton does give his partner up as he's about to lose an arm.
As for Mobley and the dog in real life after what he pulled he would have been whisked into juvenile prison so fast. See what he does and you'll agree.
One curious thing about A Dog's Best Friend is the presence of both Roger Mobley and Jimmy Baird who were regulars on the Fury TV show though not at the same time.
A Dog's Best Friend is one shoddy film with most of the players in a lot better films.
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