Snoopy, Come Home
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 Snoopy, Come Home DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Bill Melendez |
| Produced by | Lee Mendelson |
| Written by | Charles M. Schulz |
| Starring | Chad Webber Robin Kohn Stephen Shea David Carey Johanna Baer Hilary Momberger Christopher DeFaria Linda Ercoli Bill Melendez Lynda Mendelson |
| Music by | Richard M. Sherman Robert B. Sherman |
| Distributed by | National General Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 9, 1972 |
| Running time | 81 minutes |
| Language | English |
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Snoopy, Come Home is an 1972 musical animated film, produced by Cinema Center Films and Lee Mendelson Films for National General Pictures, directed by Bill Melendez, and based on the Peanuts comic strip. The songs are by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman.
The film was released on DVD in the U.S. on March 28, 2006, by Paramount Home Entertainment.
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[edit] Plot
Snoopy receives a letter from his former owner, Lila, who is in the hospital and wants him to keep her company. Upon receiving the letter, he immediately sets off with Woodstock to find her, facing the challenges of a world full of signs declaring "No Dogs or birds (hospital) Allowed" (which are mentioned in a song by Thurl Ravenscroft).
He finally arrives at the hospital and keeps her company for the three weeks she is in the hospital. They bid each other a tearful farewell, Lila crediting Snoopy with saving her life, and Snoopy starts to return home. He soon decides that he must return to her, and everybody bids him farewell at a large party. This occasion is especially difficult for Charlie Brown and both boy and dog break into tears.
However, when he arrives at Lila's apartment building, he notices another sign forbidding dogs from entering. Released from his personal obligation by this discovery, Snoopy leaves and returns to Charlie Brown and the others.
[edit] Song title index
- "Snoopy Come Home"
- "At the Beach"
- "No Dogs Allowed"
- "Do You Remember Me?" (Lila's Theme)
- "Getting It Together"
- "Fundamental Friend Dependability"
- "Charlie Brown's Calliope"
- "It Changes"
[edit] Trivia
- The title of the movie is a play on the title of the 1943 movie Lassie Come Home.
- When Charlie Brown mentions that a kid buried him in sand when he was younger, this was a reference to Charlie Brown's first appearance in Schulz's pre-Peanuts comic strip Li'l Folks in 1948.
- The running gag of the "No Dogs Allowed" sign was parodied in the Family Guy episode "Brian Goes Back to College". Immediately after Brian Griffin is fired from the New York Times, the boss puts up a "No Dogs Allowed" sign (complete with the deep voice singing); Brian responds by going to lie down on a nearby doghouse with the Peanuts theme playing.
- This was the first Peanuts animated project and the only Peanuts theatrical feature film that does not have Charlie Brown's name in the title.
- This was the animated debut of Woodstock and of Franklin.
- This was the first-ever Peanuts animated project without a musical score by Vince Guaraldi, who composed for all the previous Peanuts animated television specials and the first and previous film A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
- Castle Thunder (heard throughout the scene when a storm hits and Snoopy keeps Woodstock dry from the rain by using his ear as an umbrella).
- Like A Boy Named Charlie Brown, this film was rarely shown in broadcast television, though many independent television stations have aired it in the early 1990's. The children's cable network Disney Channel had aired the movie periodically from 1985 to 1999.
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| Peanuts |
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| Characters |
| 555 95472 | Charlotte Braun | Charlie Brown | Sally Brown | Eudora | Franklin | Frieda | The Great Pumpkin | Kite-Eating Tree | Lila | Little Red-Haired Girl | Marcie | Miss Othmar | Patty | Peggy Jean | Peppermint Patty | José Peterson | Pig-Pen | Poochie | Roy | Schroeder | Shermy | Joe Shlabotnik | Snoopy | Snoopy's siblings | Thibault | Linus van Pelt | Lucy van Pelt | Rerun van Pelt | Violet | Woodstock |
| Films |
| Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!) | A Boy Named Charlie Brown (feature film) | Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown | Snoopy, Come Home |
| Other Media |
| A Charlie Brown Christmas (album) | The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show | Linus and Lucy | Snoopy!!! The Musical | Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular | This is America, Charlie Brown | You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown | Peanuts in popular culture |
| People |
| Vince Guaraldi | Donna Johnson | Bill Melendez | Charles M. Schulz |
