War Dogs (1942)

★★★★ · Goodbye Billy Lee · dupar · 2021-07-25

For the star of THE BISCUIT EATER and so many other films this was his final performance. Billy Lee is only now in recent years finally achieving recognition as one of the greatest child actors in American film. This is thanks both to the many people who have posted all of his films online but also because of the way Youtube can provide a higher profile than existed during an actor's actual career. This is a good realist film, compassionate without being maudlin, and not without a hard edge of social realism. A fine and final performance as Billy plays the long-suffering son of an alcoholic…

So far from the truth · comissaris · 2019-04-08

Okay, I'll admit it, I watched about a quarter of this saccharine movie and couldn't face any more. If you want to see what really happens to dogs in war, go to YouTube and search War Dogs of Vietnam. This semidocumentary, narrated, I think, by Charlie Sheen, used to be on a military website until the army decided they had beaten themselves up enough about their inhumanity to the dogs that saved so many lives, I guess. The film's fairly degraded now but still watchable if you can stand to watch it all the way through. It's heartbreaking to see men crying over the dogs they handled 20 years in…