Pound
United States
1970
92 Min
Color
English
Synopsis
As a group of canines awaits execution at the city pound, a mass murderer, the Honky Killer, stalks the streets of New York. Over the objections of a pedigreed bitch, an Italian terrier plans their keeper’s death. A gentle airedale, however, assures his fellows that the governor’s pardon is imminent. After unsuccessfully propositioning the pound’s female populace, an Irish setter masturbates before the enthusiastic male inmates. While a mutt bemoans her impending destruction, a Mexican hairless proclaims his sky-diving prowess and loudly laments his baldness, and a Baltimore pointer fantasizes literary fame. As a Siamese cat philosophizes, an expiring penguin is eulogized by a water spaniel. The afternoon ends and gas seeps into the cell, killing the prisoners one by one. –TCM
Director
Robert Downey Sr.
Robert John Downey, Sr. (born 1937) is an American actor, writer, film director and father of actor Robert Downey, Jr. He is known as the director and writer of the cult classic feature film Putney Swope, a biting satire on the New York Madison Avenue advertising world.
By the age of 22, Downey had served in the Army, played minor league baseball, become a Golden Gloves champion and an Off-Off-Broadway playwright. In 1961, working with the film editor Fred von Bernewitz, he began writing and directing low-budget 16mm films which gained an underground following, beginning with Ball’s Bluff (1961), a fantasy short about a Civil War soldier who awakens in Central Park in 1961.
He moved into big-budget filmmaking with the surrealistic Greaser’s Palace (1972). His most recent film was Rittenhouse Square (2005), a documentary capturing life in a Philadelphia park. —wikipedia
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