Rowling has said that after he was no longer needed to guard the stone, Fluffy was released into the Forbidden Forest.ĩ4. Although we don’t see it in the films, J.K. If only Snape (Alan Rickman) had known that, he might have escaped being bitten. The three-headed dog that guards the Philosopher’s Stone in the first Harry Potter film is indeed intimidating, but luckily, it has a secret weakness: It can be lulled to sleep with music, just like its mythological inspiration, Cerberus, who guarded the entrance to the underworld in Greek myths. Fluffy, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) The dog actor’s real name? Fernville Lord Digby!ĩ5. And battling the army like the canine King Kong. Digby, Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World (1973)ĭigby is just an average Old English sheepdog (albeit one with a theme song of his own!) in this British comedy until he accidentally swallows a liquid growth formula that makes him-yes!-the biggest dog in the world! He’s soon gently terrorizing the countryside by lying down on train tracks and drinking fishing holes dry.
As he whizzes in and out plucking them one by one to safety, we have to laugh at his funniest rescue: A French bulldog who’s chowing down on some unguarded pepperoni pizza-with a slice still gripped firmly in his mouth! Billed as “Pizza Dog” in the credits, he’s played by Tauntaun the Frenchie.ĩ6. In the scene where Quicksilver (Evan Peters) dashes into the about-to-explode Professor X’s School for Gifted Youngsters, he’s racing against the clock to save all the students and teachers inside.
By the third film, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, he’s now the keeper of the keys to the Pirata Codex (a.k.a., the book of Pirate Code) on Shipwreck Island. But that’s not the last we saw of Prison Dog. When Disney fans first spied the mutt who refused to hand over the keys to wheedling prisoners in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, they had a good laugh, because he’s a dead ringer for the mechanical dog that’s been doing the same thing at the original ride since 1967. Prison Dog, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Bad idea! And it’s not just humans who this dog terrifies: People like to post videos to YouTube of their dogs barking back at the screen when he bares his fangs.ĩ8. This ferocious pooch defends the Bueller home from all intruders, including Principal Ed Rooney, who tries to gain entry through the doggie door in his quest to nail Ferris for skipping school. Grace Kelly then utters a line that riffs on an earlier Hitchcock film: “Why would Thorwald want to kill a little dog? Because it knew too much…?” Although we never see it, the implication is that the dog dug up some part of Thorwald’s wife he’d prefer to keep buried. Jimmy Stewart notices that in the whole courtyard, only one person didn’t come to the window-the man he suspects of killing his wife, Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr). She places the dog’s body in the basket as he’s brought back up to his grieving owners. Miss Lonelyhearts confirms the dog is dead. One night, we hear a terrible scream and all the neighbors rush to their windows-the little dog is motionless. One of the inhabitants of Hitchcock’s busy apartment complex is a little terrier who is lowered down from his owner’s fire escape every day in a little basket so he can do his business in the garden below.
“The Dog Who Knew Too Much,” Rear Window (1954) (Warning: SPOILERS AND SOME EXTREMELY SAD DOG STORIES)ġ00. Whether they starred in a Disney dog movie or an arthouse tearjerker-or just stole a scene here and there-here are some of the best movie dogs we’ll always remember. Dogs and movies have gone together since the very beginning of cinema: Charlie Chaplin knew a dog would bring added laughs (and smiles), and Hollywood is still banking big on canine stars like Snoopy, Uggie and entire litters of Buds.
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