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His Master’s Voice
(1925) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5827 feet
Directed by Renaud Hoffman
Cast: Thunder the dog [Thunder], George Hackathorne [Robert ‘Bob’ Henley, the boy], Marjorie Daw [Mary Blake, the girl], Mary Carr [Bob’s mother], Will Walling [Uncle Will, Bob’s uncle], Brooks Benedict [Jack Fenton, the rival], Flash the dog [Flash, Thunder’s son], White Fawn the dog, [?] ? [the big tramp], [?] ? [the skinny tramp], [?] ? [the ambulance driver]
Gotham Productions production; distributed on State Rights basis by Lumas Film Corporation. / Scenario by Henry McCarty, from the adaptation by James J. Tynan of a screen story by Frank Foster Davis. Cinematography by Jack MacKenzie. Presented by Samuel Sax. / Released [?] October? 1925. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] Website-AFI lists the film’s length as 4039 feet, which may only have been the length of the viewed print. The film was rereleased in the USA as The War Dog, with added talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects; with a song “His Master’s Voice” by Gus Edwards (music), and Howard Johnson and Irving Bibo (lyrics); and with a music score arranged by Joseph E. Zivelli.
Drama: War: World War I.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive (Oregon Historical Society / Gene Stoller collection) [35mm nitrate positive (incomplete); and 35mm nitrate positive (incomplete)].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: African-Americans - American Red Cross - Americans (Abroad) - Animals: Dogs, Rabbits - Early sound film - Fights: Fistfights - France - Hunting - Medals - Medical: Ambulances - Parades (Military) - Soldiers (American, French, German) - Synchronized sound film - Tramps - Weapons: Grenades, Rifles, Shotguns
Listing updated: 17 August 2025.
References: Film credits, film viewing : FilmYearBook-1926 pp. 43, 329 : Website-AFI.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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