For the Love of Rusty

For the Love of Rusty is a 1947 drama film directed by John Sturges. It was the third of the Rusty film series involving the adventures of German shepherd Rusty and his human companions young Danny Mitchell Ted Donaldson and his pals. This film details Dannys friendship with an eccentric and itinerant veterinarian Dr. Fay Aubrey Mather, and Dannys attempts to form a closer relationship with his father Tom Powers. In this installment, Rusty was played for the first time by Flame, who would portray Rusty in four of the eight Rusty films.

The calamity that ensues enrages Hugh and disintegrates the chances of father and son coming closer. Instead Danny becomes friends with an eccentric traveling veterinarian, Dr. Francis Xavier Fay, who arrives to town. Hugh doesnt look kindly upon the friendship between his son and the doctor.In an attempt to get their son back, Hugh and his wife Ethel invites the doctor to dinner one night, hoping that the doctor will seem out of place. Bit the doctor is very comfortable in the civilized and sophisticated setting in the attorney home. ........

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