The Wetback Hound

  • Documentary
6/19/1957
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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.

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      • Geronimo1967

        Lets 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 its soon to be lion fodder it falls to Paco to race to the rescue and prove that maybe hes 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 its neck fo...

        February 19, 2025

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