Chips, the War Dog

Chips, the War Dog is a 1990 television film that originally aired as a Disney Channel Premiere Film on March 24, 1990. The film was directed by Ed Kaplan and written by Sandra Weintraub, Michael Pardridge and Janice Hickey.
==Synopsis==
Misfits Danny Stauffer and Chips (a chicken-chasing German shepherd) are teamed up in the Army's "Dogs for Defense" program during WWII.
==Cast==
*Brandon Douglas ... Danny Stauffer
*Ned Vaughn ... Mitch Wilson
*Paxton Whitehead ... Smythe
*Robert Miranda ... Sgt. Rust
*Ellie Cornell ... Kathy Lloyd
*William Devane ... Col. Charnley
*Coby Scheldt ... Jim Hastings
*Juli Morser ... Mrs. Hastings
*Sheridan Gayr ... Peggy
*Luke Rossi ... Jimbo
*Dick Arnold ... Farmer Steele
*Lyn Tyrrell ... Mrs. Steele
*Robert Munns ... Sheriff
*Gary Taylor ... Bob Stauffer
*Corey Gunnestad ... Teen in Uniform
*Sara Hickcox ... Girlfriend
*Jason Connelly ... Teenager #1
*Ronald E. Lynch Jr. ... Teenager #2
*Krisha Fairchild ... DFD Woman
*Ted D'Arms ... Sen. Browne
*Dan Angst ... Boot Camp Doctor
*Michael Manuel ... Osterholt
*Landon Wine ... Torres
*Bill Walters ... Basic Training Soldier
*Robert Davenport ... Dog Bath Soldier
*Evelyn Perdue ... Mrs. Browne
*Harris D. Smithe ... Kennel Soldier
*Michael Blain-Rozgay ... Mall Sergeant
*Julie Pahl ... WAC
*William Dore ... Veterinarian
*Alfred Hollmann ... Mess Cook
*Tom Francis ... Soldier #1
*Brian Keilor ... Demonstration Soldier
*Robert Hardwick ... Senator #1
*Glenn Mazen ... Senator #2
*Donald Riley ... Narrator
*Peter Lohnes ... Capt. Bridges
*Stefan Enriquez ... Chateau Soldier
*Will McGarrahan ... O'Keefe
*Steven Zediker ... Radioman
*John Gliessman ... Sgt. Mead
*Marty Lewis ... Command Post Sergeant
*Charles Kahlenberg ... The General
*John Nelson ... German Soldier (uncredited)
==Trivia==
*Features the concluding scene from Donald Gets Drafted (1942) (Donald cutting potatoes).
==Goofs==
*In the first dog-feeding scene, a soldier gives a dog named Hercules a bowl of food. Hercules' dog house has a sign that says "Hercules" on it. In a following scene, Smythe gives Hercules a dog treat, and he's in a different dog house, without the name sign. In the rest of the shots, he's in the original dog house with the name sign.
==Quotes==
*Danny Stauffer: Private Stauffer, reporting for doggy duty, sir.
:Kathy Lloyd: Doggy duty?
:[stunned voice and look, over her face, after hearing his remark]
:Kathy Lloyd: Is that how you see this program?
*Danny Stauffer: [while reading a letter from Peggy and Jimbo, addressed to Chips] What's with you and chickens?
*Danny Stauffer: [Sternly to Chips, as he was eyeing a canary, of a lady, carrying a canary, bus was coming in to the bus route, but quietly to others, on bus] Don't even think about it!
:[Chips turns his head, from looking at the canary, back to Danny Stauffer after heaing his command & it is the movie's final verbal remark, then the Closing Credits begin]
*Sgt. Rust: [as Sgt. Rust goes to the barracks] The Bible had it all wrong, there is not just heaven and hell. They forgot to mention me, drill-sergeant Rust. It is time to rise and shine girls. My wish is your command.
:[louder to Danny Stauffer]
:Sgt. Rust: Are you dreaming, sweetheart? This is not your home, I am not your mother. Get up! Do you understand?
:[Sargeant Rust then lifted Stauffer's bed and knocking Stauffer to the floor and waking him up]
==Gallery==
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Category:1990 films
Category:Disney films
Category:Films
Category:Live-action films
Category:World War II films
Category:Films about animals
Category:Disney Channel Original Movies