
Director: Joseph McGrath
Starring: Jim Dale, Spike Milligan, Angela Douglas
More info: IMDB
Tagline: The Biggest Howl Ever Unleashed!
Plot: Military scientist Jeff Eldon works with animals in their labs. He also has a crush on fellow doctor Janine, who is working on growth hormone Project X. To help his roses Jeff `borrows' a little of project X but it is inadvertently fed to a lost dog, Digby. Whilst trying to hide the rapidly growing pooch, Jeff attracts the attentions of a couple of criminals who try to kidnap Digby for a circus attraction.
My rating: 3/10
Will I watch it again? No! Bad Dog! No!
#32 on Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 1 (part of the TRAILER TRASH PROJECT)
This one and MATILDA (1978) were the two films I was kind of dreading from the trailer comp because when a comedy is bad...it's baaaaaad. On the flip side, I have vague memories of seeing these in the theater as a kid in the 70s. I recall very little of either and fortunately I didn't have any bad flashbacks or anything while watching them.








Woof! It's that bad. Besides the state-of-the-art special effects...




we get an amazingly dull and half-witted story. The actors are earnest enough but it's the ones who are playing it WAAAAAAY over the top that made me groan. I swear if I had kids and had to take them to see this dreck I'd drop them off at an orphanage and leave town. The only thing that I could appreciate were the cameos from some of my British TV favorites like...



All three of these guys delivered the only gags I though were funny. OK, so the banana peel pratfall was great only because I can appreciate the artistry of that stunt. Go back up and watch that guy fall a few feet on his back. That's fucking impressive! I wouldn't do it. My life must not have much value to sit through crap like this. Funny...I don't feel like I've got low self esteem...
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