Pound (film)

Pound
Directed by Robert Downey Sr.
Written by Robert Downey Sr.
Starring Charles Dierkop
Don Calfa
Antonio Fargas
Chuck Green
Marshall Efron
Robert Downey Jr.
Music by Charley Cuva
Cinematography Gerald Cotts
Edited by Bud Smith
Production
company
Pound Company
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
  • 1970 (1970)
Running time
92 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Pound is a 1970 American film written and directed by Robert Downey Sr.[1] It was based on The Comeuppance, an Off-Off Broadway play written by Downey in 1961. It is about several dogs, along with a Siamese cat and a penguin, at a pound, as they await being euthanised; the animals are played by human actors. The film marks the acting debut of Downey's son, Robert Jr., as a puppy.

Cast

  • Lawrence Wolf as Mexican Hairless
  • Stan Gottlieb as Boxer
  • Charles Dierkop as Airdale
  • Elsie Downey as Mutt Bitch
  • Carolyn Groves as Pedigreed
  • Lucille Rogers as Old Pekingese
  • Ching Yeh as Siamese Cat
  • George Morgan as Irish Setter
  • Don Calfa as Italian Terrier
  • Antonio Fargas as Greyhound
  • Chuck Green as Mutt
  • Buddy Butler as Singing Water Spaniel
  • Harry Rigby as Fowl
  • Marshall Efron as Dachshund
  • Eric Krupnik as Montana Sheepdog
  • Eric Crawley as Baltimore Pointer
  • Carolyn Cardwell as Keeper
  • Joe Madden as Colonel
  • James Green as Honky Killer
  • L. Errol Jaye as Lt. Weintraub
  • Mari-Claire Charba as Killer's Wife
  • Robert Downey Jr. as Puppy
  • Carl Lee as Thief

See also

References

  1. "Pound". The New York Times.


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