Adventures of Rusty (1945)

Director
Paul Burnford

Main cast
Ted Donaldson; Margaret Lindsay; Conrad Nagel; Gloria Holden; Robert Williams

Genres
Family, Adventure

Description
Fearing that his recently-acquired step-mother, Ann Dennis, is competing with him for his father's affections, and saddened by the death of his dog, young Danny Mitchell, in the first film of the long-running "Rusty" series, seeks consolation in the companionship of a ferocious, Nazi-trained police dog, Rusty, brought to the U.S. by a returning WWII-veteran. The step-mother, with tender understanding, eventually wins Danny over while Danny pacifies his new dog.


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