The Wetback Hound
The Wetback Hound

The Wetback Hound (1957)

6.8 ? Jun 19, 1957 0h 18m

Overview

The Wetback Hound is a 1957 American live-action short film produced Walt Disney Productions. It was produced and co-directed by Larry Lansburgh, and it accompanied the theatrical release of the Disney feature Johnny Tremain. In 1958, the film won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 30th Academy Awards.

Genres

Documentary

Release Date

June 19, 1957

Rating

6.8 /10

Runtime

0h 18m

Rex Allen

Rex Allen

Narrator

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CinemaSerf

6.0/10

Feb 19, 2025

Let’s face it, “Paco” is pretty useless as a lion hunter. In fact, he is so hopeless that his rancher pals abandon him and he has to set off to fend for himself. This involves a relatively easy swim across the border to Texas where he luckily finds a new home where instead of a lion, he finds a recently orphaned fawn. His new owner takes that home with them to rear until it, too, can look after itself - but when it escapes and looks like it’s soon to be lion fodder it falls to “Paco” to race to the rescue and prove that maybe he’s not so hopeless after all. This is all fairly cheerful Disney fayre with some carefully edited scenography to give it just a slight hint of lion-taming menace as it skips along. The fawn even has a bell round it’s neck for that added Bambi factor and if you are an animal lover then you’ll enjoy this.

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