Back to God’s Country. David Hartford, 1919.
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Edition screened: Included on Image/Milestone DVD Back to God’s Country/Something New, released 2000. Scored and with English intertitles, no dialogue track. Runtime approximately 74 minutes.
Summary: Violence to dogs.
Details:
1) Chained dogs fight outside a cabin, 51:30-51:45.
2) The villain Rydell shoots a rifle at 1:07:03 and we see his target, a dog, lying dead 1:07:15-1:07:19.
3) A fight between sled dogs 1:08:20-1:08:54, with apparently dead dogs lying in the snow 1:09:12-1:09:14.
The dog violence is not gory or explicit, and the strong theme of the movie is about kind and compassionate treatment of both animals and people.