A Boy and His Dog (1946 film)

A Boy and His Dog is a 1946 American Technicolor short drama film directed by LeRoy Prinz.

It won an Oscar at the 19th Academy Awards in 1947 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).

[1][2] Short-story author Samuel A. Derieux, who died twenty-four years earlier in 1922, received story credit for the film, suggesting to some the expectation that he wrote a work with the title "A Boy and His Dog".

[3] However, a plot summary for the film, attributed to David Glagovsky,[4] closely parallels Derieux's short story "The Trial in Tom Belcher's Store", suggesting the film-makers drew on the published (and once celebrated)[5] story, but gave the film a title Derieux need not ever have considered.

It is entirely unrelated to Harlan Ellison's 1969 novella cycle as well as its 1975 film adaptation of the same name.