Dog Hero Movies

Heralded as a "Universal Thrill Feature," this minor outdoor melodrama starred Dynamite, one of canine phenomenon Rin Tin Tin's legion of imitators....

A dog helps to recover a million dollars worth of diamonds.

A short western/crime film.

From James Oliver Curwood's novel about a wolfdog.

Lightning the German Shepherd dog stars in this wilderness melodrama.

Our doggy hero is abandoned in the desert while in pup-hood. Upon reaching maturity, Tin Tin has undeservedly earned the reputation as a killer...

A short film starring Fearless the dog and directed by Lou Carter.

When Rin-Tin-Tin's master is found murdered, Rinty is accused of the crime.

A short film about a man who rescues a wounded dog from the battlefields of WWI and brings him home to America.

Canine star Rin Tin Tin makes his all-talking (all-barking?) debut in Warner Bros.' Frozen River. In characteristic fashion, Rinty braves the...

Bill Holmes rescues Rinty from a car wreck not realizing that there is a stolen $50,000 diamond necklace hidden in the dog's collar.

A man is suspected of robbery and murder and aided by his horse and dog.

Molly O'Day and her brother, Josh, are homesteading on and trying to make a living on a piece of government land, but local rancher Dave Crenshaw...

Molly White, the new schoolmistress at Silver Creek, makes the acquaintance of Jack Brooks, a wealthy eastern sportsman, when his pedigreed police...

Blake, the crooked foreman of a cattle ranch, murders a sheep rancher. Then after framing ranch hand Jack for the murder, he urges the ranch hands to...

Adapted from Dorothy Yost's story, "The Untamed Heart"

Gary and his dog Pal are having fun working on make-believe crime cases, though Gary's father, a city detective, disapproves. Gary and Pal soon find...

The Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or stock-raising. Rival companies bid for the building...

Jed and his dog Lightning contend with the boy's abusive father.

Just out of jail and vowing to go straight, former jewel thief Boston Blackie, undertakes the reformation of a pretty blonde who has stolen a...