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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. Albert Lewin, 1951.
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Edition screened: Kino Blu-ray, released 2010. English language. Runtime approximately 123 minutes.

Summary: Off-screen murder of a dog.

Details: A pet terrier barks in an adjacent room as his owner is murdered. The intruder then goes into the dog’s room and we hear a squeal followed by silence as the dog is killed, 1:33:15-1:33:20.

A tiresome movie about the privileged dawdling of monster-faced windbags, made worse by the predictable requirement that an innocent animal be pointlessly murdered.

The Kino Blu-ray includes El Torero de Cordoba, a short 1947 biography of bullfighter Manuel Rodriguez Manolete, inspiration for a character in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman.