| A Boy and His Dog | |
| Director: | LeRoy Prinz |
| Producer: | Gordon Hollingshead |
| Based On: | original story by Samuel A. Derieux |
| Screenplay: | Saul Elkins |
| Starring: | Harry Davenport Billy Sheffield Dorothy Adams |
| Music: | William Lava |
| Cinematography: | Charles Boyle, A.S.C. |
| Editing: | Marshall Eyanson |
| Distributor: | Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. |
| Runtime: | 21 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
A Boy and His Dog is a 1946 American Technicolor short drama film directed by LeRoy Prinz. It won an Oscar at the 19th Academy Awards in 1947 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).[1] [2]
Short-story author Samuel A. Derieux, who died twenty-four years earlier in 1922, received story credit for the film, suggesting to some the expectation that he wrote a work with the title "A Boy and His Dog".[3] However, a plot summary for the film, attributed to David Glagovsky,[4] closely parallels Derieux's short story "The Trial in Tom Belcher's Store", suggesting the film-makers drew on the published (and once celebrated)[5] story, but gave the film a title Derieux need not ever have considered.
It is entirely unrelated to Harlan Ellison's 1969 novella cycle as well as its 1975 film adaptation of the same name.