Director: | Ken Russell |
Starring: | Dean Cain Tia Carrere Bryan Brown Sean McCann |
Music: | John Altman |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Producer: | Ken Russell Christopher Courtney |
Executive Producer: | Hugh Martin Rob Stork |
Editor: | Xavier Russell |
Cinematography: | Jamie Thompson |
Runtime: | 92 minutes |
Company: | Goodstuff Entertainment |
Network: | Showtime |
Dogboys is a 1998 American-Canadian made-for-television action-thriller film directed by Ken Russell and starring Dean Cain, Tia Carrere and Bryan Brown. It was originally broadcast on Showtime on April 4, 1998.
Julian is a convict assigned by the sadistic Captain Brown to be a "dog boy"—a human guinea pig used to train attack dogs to hunt down potential escapees.
The film was shot in Toronto in May 1997.[1]
Russell said he was given orders to revisions by "anonymous" execs on the film. "It was change this, alter that – no discussion, 'just do it.' There was no one to talk to...It paid the rent."[2]
The Los Angeles Times said "Dialogue is deliriously silly, with the term "dogboy" used so frequently you'd think they're trying to make it a national catch-phrase."[3]