Rover Makes Good (1952)
How a sheep dog is responsible for the rescue of two children trapped in an old mine.
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It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
ROVER MAKES GOOD is a brief adventure from the Children's Film Foundation stable, made in 1952 in black and white and on a very low budget. The setting is a Cornish farm, where a couple of visiting kids get into mischief while exploring the old mine workings and are rescued by a precocious dog. There's no more story to it than that, but at 16 minutes in length there doesn't need to be.This is efficient storytelling, with a good depiction of rural life where the adults are all hard working and the kids are irresistibly fun. Some of the acting on the part of the children is touch and go, but the dog is the main star here and lovable as only screen animals can be. ROVER MAKES GOOD manages to fit the right amount of scene setting, adventure, danger, rescue, and heroism into the briefest of running times, and it has just the right Enid Blyton spirit to keep it entertaining.