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A Dog of Flanders |  | Director: James B. Clark
Actors: David Ladd, Donald Crisp, Theodore Bikel, Max Croiset, Monique Ahrens
Studio: E1 Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 78556
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: E1E-DV-6594
UPC: 741952659495
EAN: 0741952659495
ASIN: B00268EY60
Theatrical Release Date: 1959
Release Date: July 14, 2009
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Studio: E1 Release Date: 07/14/2009 Run time: 96 minutes
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 Dog of Flanders 1959 version February 14, 2010
Jeffrey K. Risner (Athens, OH USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Every now and then you reflect on things that have had a influence on your life and this film, Dog of Flanders, was one. I was about 8 or 9 years old when I first saw it and seeing, probably for the first time, real art, artists and works of the great masters resulted in life long love of art and its creation. Fifty years later I love art even more and love this fine little film.
 Heart Felt Movie January 7, 2010
B L
*****SPOILERS*******
I rented this movie on netflixs and decided it was a must have. Its about a orphaned boy named Nello, who lives with aging grandfather. They seem to be barely making ends meet. They don't even have enough to eat. One day they are coming home from a very long day selling milk, and fine this old abused and neglected dog, against this grandfathers better judgement they take the dog in knowing that it will make a even bigger hardship on the struggling family. Nello takes a very strong liking to the dog and names it Patrasche, but soon things get worst, Grandfather gets sick and Nello and Patrasche take over the Milk deliveries. After a while Grandfather dies, and leaves Nello Struggling he looses his milk delivery job...
This movie is about having dreams. About having friends and about being loved even when you think their is no one left to be loved by.
Released on DVD in its original widescreen CinemaScope at long last! November 14, 2009
Mr. Db Rayner (STOKE-ON-TRENT, STAFFORDSHIRE United Kingdom)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I went to see A Dog of Flanders in 1961, when I was fourteen, and it became one of my all time favourite films. This is a superb tear-jerker, filmed on location in Holland and Belgium in 1959, but set in 1900. It stars the then twelve-year-old David Ladd as the orphan Nello and veteran actor Donald Crisp as his elderly and infirm grandfather. Although devoted to one another, they live a very poor life selling milk from a hand cart they pull around Antwerp. Nello is an artistic, intelligent and sensitive little boy who wants to paint like his idol, Peter Paul Rubens, but he has no money to enable him to study or to buy proper materials to paint with. They find a badly treated dog, left to die at the roadside by his heartless owner and take him home and care for him. Because he's been so badly treated, it takes time for him to accept them as his friends. But eventually, they gain his trust. Nello names him Patrasche...the name that Rubens had given to his dog...and he becomes part of the small family, even pulling the cart when grandfather is unable to do so any more. One day, Nello has just finished a sketch of the old man dozing in a chair outside their one-roomed hut and goes to show him the finished drawing. But he cannot awaken him and slowly, he comes to realise that his beloved grandfather is dead. Completely bereft and unable to keep up the rent on their home, Nello and Patrasche are evicted by an uncaring landlord in the middle of winter and just before Christmas. Somehow, they have to learn how to survive without his grandfather in a harsh and bitter world.
A Dog of Flanders, from the 1872 novel by Ouida, had been filmed previously, notably in 1934, but never so well as this. Even though the very tragic ending of the novel is changed to a happy ending here, it really is beautifully done all round and everyone connected with it should feel very proud of the result. The picturesque landscapes of Flanders are superbly captured on film in CinemaScope and Color by De Luxe by Otto Heller and the music score by Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter is very haunting. David Ladd, who had previously given such a truly wonderful performance alongside his father Alan in The Proud Rebel (1958), is superb. David and I shared the same Christian name, were both the same age and had similar looks, which made it easy for me to identify with him in A Dog of Flanders. Theodore Bikel has a good character role in it as an artist who befriends Nello, eventually adopts him and helps him to realise his dreams.
This is a wonderful film and you really would have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by it. I give it ten out of ten. This E1 Entertainment re-mastered and restored 2009 DVD release of this classic 1959 film is a joy to behold. Having had to put up for years with the truncated pan and scan video and DVD of this film, the new DVD restores it to its original 2.35:1 CinemaScope and Color by De Luxe glory, complete with the original "Twentieth Century-Fox presents a CinemaScope picture" opening trade mark, previously removed from the Paramount and other DVD companies pan and scan videos and DVD's. It seems that 20th Century-Fox have somehow lost the rights to their own film here, but don't be put off by the fact that this new DVD release isn't released by Fox. The quality is as good as anything released in their own Studio Classics series. The DVD is also anamorphically enhanced for 16 x 9 monitors and televisions. Highly recommended, even though the sound on the DVD is in mono and not in the original stereo of the film as first released.
Impeccable Remastering of Classic Children's Film ! August 12, 2009
shureman (Oakville, On Canada)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had the old Paramount VHS version of this great classic 1959 film, but it was pan-and-scan with a rather washed-out picture. The first DVD version was an improvement but still utilized the pan-and-scan full screen treatment. However this new DVD blows both out of the water ! The film looks brand new and includes the Fox trade-mark logo. How wonderful to finally view this heart-warming story in the original wide-screen format...there's just no comparison. Full marks to the producers of this re-issue ! But make sure you get the blue case (wide-screen) and NOT the purple case (pan-and-scan). Note this film is recorded in mono and NOT the original stereo...
An Endearing Film January 24, 2009
Alan C. Freeman (Vilnius, Lithuania)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A Dog of Flanders is a compelling movie especially for those people who love dogs. This particular version of the film (1960) has several outstanding actors, such as Theodore Bikel, Donald Crisp and David Ladd and is, without doubt, my favorite among the several versions. The story takes place in Belgium and is based on an old Belgian story about a young boy who wants to become a painter and his loving relationship with a dog he rescues. The particular Ruben's painting that the young boy, Nello, so desperately wanted to view can actually be seen today in the Cathedral in Antwerp. It is indeed a beautiful painting.
I would recommend this film to anyone who is looking for a traditional good family film. It is beautifully set, sentimental to a point, and an endearing memory to hold.
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