8.4 /10 1 Votes
98% Rotten Tomatoes Release date 1955 Language English Initial release 22 December 1955 Producer Henry Berman Music director Elmer Bernstein | 6.8/10 IMDb Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Country United States Budget $891,000 Director Herman Hoffman Screenplay John Michael Hayes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Jeff Richards
Edmund Gwenn
Jarma Lewis
Dean Jagger
Vic Morrow Cast Edmund Gwenn, Jeff Richards, Jarma Lewis, Dean Jagger, Richard Anderson Similar Dog movies, Comedies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Soundtrack
In 2010 Film Score Monthly released the complete scores of the seven Lassie feature films released by MGM between 1943 and 1955 as well as Elmer Bernstein’s score for It's a Dog's Life in a collectible package titled Lassie Come Home: The Canine Cinema Collection limited to only 1000 copies.
Due to the era when these scores were recorded, nearly half of the music masters have been lost so the scores had to be reconstructed and restored from the best available sources, mainly the Music and Effects tracks as well as monaural ¼″ tapes.
The score for It's a Dog's Life was composed by Elmer Bernstein. It was released in its entirety and in stereo, as it comes from the three-track magnetic film era.
Track listing for It's a Dog's Life (Disc 5)
- Main Title/Wildfire’s Song 1:54
- Wildfire’s Shame/Decision 1:59
- Fame at Last/Masterful/Defeat 2:42
- Nolan/Getting Acquainted/What a St. Bernard 1:46
- Jocks/In the Hay/Trophy Room 3:39
- After the Fight/Wyndham’s Story 2:50
- Wash Day/Training 1:55
- Tattle 0:51
- Wyndham Walks and Talks/Nocturne/Going Home 5:16
- Wildfire’s Training 0:51
- Mother 1:54
- The End 2:33
Total Time: 28:33
Reception
According to MGM records the movie earned $357,000 in the US and Canada and $152,000 elsewhere, making a loss to the studio of $848,000.