Oh! Heavenly Dog
4 /10 1 Votes
1/4 Roger Ebert Genre Comedy, Crime, Fantasy Production 20th Century Fox Writer Rod Browning Language English | 5.4/10 IMDb Initial DVD release August 9, 2005 Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date July 11, 1980 (1980-07-11) Cast (Browning), Benjean (Browning), (Jackie), (Bart), (Bernie)Similar movies I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance is Mine , Salt , Bloody Moon , Mad Max: Fury Road , John Wick , Brooklyn's Finest Tagline An adult tail of murder, mystery, and forbidden love. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Oh! Heavenly Dog is a 1980 American comedy film written by Rod Browning. The film stars Benjean, billed here as Benji (she was the daughter of Higgins, who originated the role of Benji), Chevy Chase, Jane Seymour and Omar Sharif. The film was directed by Joe Camp and released by 20th Century Fox.
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- Oh heavenly dog 1980 with benji won t give in
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Behind the scenes
- Reception
- References
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Plot
Chevy Chase plays a private investigator who is called to a job and is killed after finding a dead woman. The afterlife has not decided if he is destined for Heaven or Hell, so he is given the chance to return to Earth as a dog in order to solve the case and earn his way to Heaven.
Cast
Production
The film was shot in London, Paris and Montreal. Because of England's quarantine laws - which required dogs to be in quarantine for six months - the scenes with Benji were shot in Montreal's old city.
Behind the scenes
Outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage from this film were used in making the short feature Benji at Work (1980), a 30-minute documentary about the career of Benjean as a dog actor.
Reception
In his one star review, critic Roger Ebert stated it was not nearly as funny as it would've inspired in a Saturday Night Live ad, calling it a "total miscalculation from beginning to end" Janet Maslin called it a film that "Shows few signs of life, and many signs of depressing modernism"
References
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