Oh Heavenly Dog
| Oh! Heavenly Dog | |
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Promotional movie poster for the film
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| Directed by | Joe Camp |
| Produced by | Joe Camp |
| Written by | Rod Browning Joe Camp |
| Starring |
Chevy Chase Benji Jane Seymour Omar Sharif Robert Morley Alan Sues |
| Music by |
Euel Box Frank Denson |
| Cinematography | Don Reddy |
| Edited by | Steve R. Moore Leon Seith |
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Production
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Mulberry Square Productions
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Release date
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Running time
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104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $6 million |
Oh! Heavenly Dog is a 1980 American comedy film written by Rod Browning. The film stars Benjean, billed here as Benji (she was the daughter of Higgins, who originated the role of Benji), Chevy Chase, Jane Seymour and Omar Sharif. The film was directed by Joe Camp and released by 20th Century Fox.
Chevy Chase plays a private investigator who is called to a job and is killed after finding a dead woman. The afterlife has not decided if he is destined for Heaven or Hell, so he is given the chance to return to Earth as a dog in order to solve the case and earn his way to Heaven.
The film was shot in London, Paris and Montreal. Because of England's quarantine laws - which required dogs to be in quarantine for six months - the scenes with Benji were shot in Montreal's old city.
Outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage from this film were used in making the short feature Benji at Work (1980), a 30-minute documentary about the career of Benjean as a dog actor.
In his one star review, critic Roger Ebert stated it was not nearly as funny as it would've inspired in a Saturday Night Live ad, calling it a "total miscalculation from beginning to end"Janet Maslin called it a film that "Shows few signs of life, and many signs of depressing modernism"
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