Joe Camp died yesterday at age 84. He made the Benji movies including Oh, Heavenly Dog starring Chevy Chase. Also made a mystery, The Double McGuffin.
I saw Benji in a theater back in 1974. I must have been 11 and it bothered me that the dog wasn't really an actor and didn't understand the storyline he was acting out. Bob Barker once said it was his favorite movie and, according to IMDb, it was a "guilty pleasure" of Alfred Hitchcock.
One of the sequels, Benji the Hunted, was attacked by Michael Medved who lashed out against it because Benji doesn't come when his owner calls him and stays in the woods to save some orphaned baby animals.
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