Pound (film)

Pound
Directed by	Robert Downey Sr.
Written by	Robert Downey Sr.
Music by	Charley Cuva
Production company	Pound Company
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	1970 (1970)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Pound is a 1970 film directed and written by Robert Downey Sr. It was based on The Comeuppance, an Off-Off Broadway play written by Downey in 1961. It is about several dogs, along with a Siamese cat and a penguin, at a pound, as they await being euthanised; the animals are played by human actors. It was the film debut of Robert Downey Jr., the director's 5-year-old son, as a puppy.