Chips, the War Dog

Chips, the War Dog is a 1990 television film that originally aired as a Disney Channel Premiere Film on March 24, 1990. The film was directed by Ed Kaplan and written by Sandra Weintraub, Michael Pardridge and Janice Hickey.

Synopsis

Misfits Danny Stauffer and Chips (a chicken-chasing German shepherd) are teamed up in the Army's "Dogs for Defense" program during WWII.

Cast

Brandon Douglas ... Danny Stauffer
Ned Vaughn ... Mitch Wilson
Paxton Whitehead ... Smythe
Robert Miranda ... Sgt. Rust
Ellie Cornell ... Kathy Lloyd
William Devane ... Col. Charnley
Coby Scheldt ... Jim Hastings
Juli Morser ... Mrs. Hastings
Sheridan Gayr ... Peggy
Luke Rossi ... Jimbo
Dick Arnold ... Farmer Steele
Lyn Tyrrell ... Mrs. Steele
Robert Munns ... Sheriff
Gary Taylor ... Bob Stauffer
Corey Gunnestad ... Teen in Uniform
Sara Hickcox ... Girlfriend
Jason Connelly ... Teenager #1
Ronald E. Lynch Jr. ... Teenager #2
Krisha Fairchild ... DFD Woman
Ted D'Arms ... Sen. Browne
Dan Angst ... Boot Camp Doctor
Michael Manuel ... Osterholt
Landon Wine ... Torres
Bill Walters ... Basic Training Soldier
Robert Davenport ... Dog Bath Soldier
Evelyn Perdue ... Mrs. Browne
Harris D. Smithe ... Kennel Soldier
Michael Blain-Rozgay ... Mall Sergeant
Julie Pahl ... WAC
William Dore ... Veterinarian
Alfred Hollmann ... Mess Cook
Tom Francis ... Soldier #1
Brian Keilor ... Demonstration Soldier
Robert Hardwick ... Senator #1
Glenn Mazen ... Senator #2
Donald Riley ... Narrator
Peter Lohnes ... Capt. Bridges
Stefan Enriquez ... Chateau Soldier
Will McGarrahan ... O'Keefe
Steven Zediker ... Radioman
John Gliessman ... Sgt. Mead
Marty Lewis ... Command Post Sergeant
Charles Kahlenberg ... The General
John Nelson ... German Soldier (uncredited)

Trivia

Features the concluding scene from Donald Gets Drafted (1942) (Donald cutting potatoes).

Goofs

In the first dog-feeding scene, a soldier gives a dog named Hercules a bowl of food. Hercules' dog house has a sign that says "Hercules" on it. In a following scene, Smythe gives Hercules a dog treat, and he's in a different dog house, without the name sign. In the rest of the shots, he's in the original dog house with the name sign.

Quotes

Danny Stauffer: Private Stauffer, reporting for doggy duty, sir.

Kathy Lloyd: Doggy duty?

[stunned voice and look, over her face, after hearing his remark]

Kathy Lloyd: Is that how you see this program?

Danny Stauffer: [while reading a letter from Peggy and Jimbo, addressed to Chips] What's with you and chickens?

Danny Stauffer: [Sternly to Chips, as he was eyeing a canary, of a lady, carrying a canary, bus was coming in to the bus route, but quietly to others, on bus] Don't even think about it!

[Chips turns his head, from looking at the canary, back to Danny Stauffer after heaing his command & it is the movie's final verbal remark, then the Closing Credits begin]

Sgt. Rust: [as Sgt. Rust goes to the barracks] The Bible had it all wrong, there is not just heaven and hell. They forgot to mention me, drill-sergeant Rust. It is time to rise and shine girls. My wish is your command.

[louder to Danny Stauffer]

Sgt. Rust: Are you dreaming, sweetheart? This is not your home, I am not your mother. Get up! Do you understand?

[Sargeant Rust then lifted Stauffer's bed and knocking Stauffer to the floor and waking him up]

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