It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog

1946Movie⏱️ 1h 10mApproved

ActionAdventureComedyCrime

⭐ 6.6

IMDB Rating

248 votes

A reporter who wants to solve crimes gets into comic scrapes with a beautiful stranger and a misunderstood dog.

Director

Herbert I. Leeds

Writers

Eugene Ling, Frank Gabrielson, Edwin Lanham

Stars

Carole Landis, Allyn Joslyn, Margo Woode

Language

English

Country

United States

💬 12

Reviews

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🎭 Top Cast

Carole Landis

as Julia Andrews

Allyn Joslyn

as Henry Barton

Margo Woode

as Olive Stone

Harry Morgan

as Gus Rivers

Reed Hadley

as Mike Valentine

Jean Wallace

as Bess Williams

Roy Roberts

as 'Mitch' Mitchell

John Ireland

as Benny Smith

John Alexander

as Joe Parelli

Whit Bissell

as Chester Frye

💰 Box Office

$800,000

Domestic Gross

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

1.37 : 1

Color

Black and White

Filming Location

20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production

Twentieth Century Fox

🏷️ Keywords

damsel in distressdouble feature filmbar and grill customerdeceptiondouble cross

🎯 Categories

ActionAdventureComedyCrime

⭐ Featured Review

women in mens jobs

by blanche-2 • 2012-10-06

6/10

"Allyn Joslyn, Carole Landis, and Rodney the Dog star in "It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog," a 1946 film. Joslyn plays Henry Barton, a returning WW II vet who returns to his newspaper job, only to find out he's no longer assigned to crime, but science, and a woman has his job. Disgusted, he's determined to solve a crime so he can get his job back. He goes to work on a local racketeering case, and meets a beautiful woman, Julia (Landis) and her dog (Rodney), a Doberman who is also a war vet. When the bar they are all in is robbed, Henry mistakenly thinks that Julia and Rodn..."