Old Yeller

This 1860s-era drama starring a mutt and his two young masters takes a dark turn when Old Yeller is bitten by a rabid wolf, goes mad and starts foaming at the mouth. The tear jerker’s defining moment happens when the main character, a boy named Travis, is forced to shoot Old Yeller to protect his family. Travis becomes a man, men in the audience become weeping boys, and Old Yeller is written into film history as the ultimate canine tragic ending.
101 Dalmatians

If she doesn’t scare you, no evil thing will. One of the most villainous cretans in movie history, Cruella De Vil scoops up English dalmatian puppies, and intends to skin them for fur coats. Thankfully, the stolen puppies are recovered, Cruella is left in ruins, and the puppies live out their days on a country estate. Proof positive that anything cute is cuter times 100. (The 1996 remake, starring Glenn Close as Cruella, however, was proof positive that what appears frightening in animated form comes off as just plain silly when converted to live action.)

























