Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw

Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPierre DeCelles
Written byJim Carlson
Terrence McDonnell
Based onPound Puppies
Tonka
Produced byDonald Kushner
Peter Locke
Diana Dru Botsford
StarringBrennan Howard
B. J. Ward
Nancy Cartwright
Tony Longo
Edited byJohn Blizek
Music byRichard Kosinski
Sam Winans
Bill Reichenbach Jr.
Ashley Hall
Bob Mann
Production
companies
Distributed byTriStar Pictures
Release date
  • March 18, 1988 (1988-03-18)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$6 million
Box office$586,938

Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw is a 1988 American animated musical adventure film based on the Tonka toy line and the Hanna-Barbera television series of the same name, which had debuted two years before the film was released. It was directed by Pierre DeCelles, and stars the voices of Brennan Howard, B.J. Ward and Tony Longo. This was the only animated feature film produced by Carolco Pictures as well as the first animated film distributed by Tri-Star Pictures.

The Legend of Big Paw was the final theatrically released animated feature from the late 1980s to promote a major toy line, a common trend in the American cartoon industry of the time. The film received negative reviews from critics and audiences alike and was a major box office bomb, grossing only $586,938 against a $6 million budget.