***SPOILERS*** Lost for some 40 years until rediscovered in the late 1990's "Wolf Dog" has now become somewhat, to the few dozen people who watched it, of a cult film. That in it having two bigger then life stars, in the parts that they later played, in it the gravely voiced Jim Davis as ex-convict Jim Hughes who was to become famous as the big oil Petrarch "Jock" of all trades Jock "Jocko" Ewing of the enormously popular TV series "Dallas". As well as having in it the beautiful and stately looking- five foot seven inch-Allison Hayes as Jim's wife Ellen who became immortalized as Nancy Acher the woman who was far too much of a woman for any man, even porn star John C. Holmes, to handle in the movie "The Attack of the Fifty foot Woman".
Hughes a highly decorated Korean War veteran is out on parole for manslaughter in killing a man in a bar fight and now wants to start all over again as a rancher in the Great Canadian Northeast. The problem is that the small and out of the way town that he settled in has a number of people who have it in for him in how he treated them as a tough and take no BS US Marine Corps drill sergeant back in the states! How the wolf dog who's name ironically is "Dog" comes into the picture is in him replacing Jim's 10 year old son Paul's, Tony Brown, dog "Spot" who was mauled to death by the town bully Clem Krivak's Austin Willis, pet attack dog "Thunder". It was Krivak who, like almost everyone else in the film, also had it in for Hughes who set "Thunder" on the poor mutt "Spot", who was twice his size, and mauled him to death. It was "Dog" who later was to even the score in a ferocious dog fight, that "Thunder" instigated, by giving him back for what he did to "Spot" everything that he had coming to him!
***SPOILERS***It was when escaped murders Trent & Hawkins, Don Garrard & Juan Root, who knew Hughes as a cell-mate of theirs back in prison, everybody in the movie seems to know Jim Hughes,took him his wife son as well as dog hostage that things really, as if they didn't already, started popping! Faced with death by the escaped murders if he didn't cooperate with them or prison, by breaking his parole, if he did it was the real hero of the movie "Dog" now, in him killing "Thunder", also a fugitive from justice who was to straighten everything out. That together with a squad of the town's police and reinforced by a local detachment of Canadian Mounties coming to the rescue of the terrified and beleaguered held hostage Hughes family.
Hughes a highly decorated Korean War veteran is out on parole for manslaughter in killing a man in a bar fight and now wants to start all over again as a rancher in the Great Canadian Northeast. The problem is that the small and out of the way town that he settled in has a number of people who have it in for him in how he treated them as a tough and take no BS US Marine Corps drill sergeant back in the states! How the wolf dog who's name ironically is "Dog" comes into the picture is in him replacing Jim's 10 year old son Paul's, Tony Brown, dog "Spot" who was mauled to death by the town bully Clem Krivak's Austin Willis, pet attack dog "Thunder". It was Krivak who, like almost everyone else in the film, also had it in for Hughes who set "Thunder" on the poor mutt "Spot", who was twice his size, and mauled him to death. It was "Dog" who later was to even the score in a ferocious dog fight, that "Thunder" instigated, by giving him back for what he did to "Spot" everything that he had coming to him!
***SPOILERS***It was when escaped murders Trent & Hawkins, Don Garrard & Juan Root, who knew Hughes as a cell-mate of theirs back in prison, everybody in the movie seems to know Jim Hughes,took him his wife son as well as dog hostage that things really, as if they didn't already, started popping! Faced with death by the escaped murders if he didn't cooperate with them or prison, by breaking his parole, if he did it was the real hero of the movie "Dog" now, in him killing "Thunder", also a fugitive from justice who was to straighten everything out. That together with a squad of the town's police and reinforced by a local detachment of Canadian Mounties coming to the rescue of the terrified and beleaguered held hostage Hughes family.