Rating: PG
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 09/16/2008
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 90 Minutes
Flags: Adult Humor, Scary Moments
Distributor/Studio: First Look Pictures
Like
Lassie, another famous Hollywood pooch with a long shelf life,
Rin Tin Tin was actually portrayed by numerous onscreen canines over the decades, but unlike
Lassie or
Benji, the first
Rin Tin Tin actually experienced fantastic offscreen adventures to rival anything in the movies, before graduating to silver screen stardom. As directed by
Danny Lerner, this fact-based
drama recreates those events onscreen. The tale begins with
Lee Duncan, a France-stationed World War I corporal who rescues a German Shepherd mother and her three puppies from a bombed-out European dog kennel. He gives the mother and two of the pups away to different owners, but keeps the third puppy (his favorite) for himself, and names the spunky canine
Rin Tin Tin, after a toy that French children commonly gave to soldiers around the turn of the century. The general of the base expressly forbids
Lee from keeping a high-strung dog on the premises, but
Lee finds a solution by befriending one of the POWs - German dog trainer
Nikolaus Egger, who agrees to train the animal despite initial resistance.
Egger teaches
Rin Tin Tin such amazing feats as rescuing wounded soldiers from the battlefield; later, the dog accompanies
Lee back to the states and graduates to movie stardom in 14 features from 1920-31.
~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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