Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw
| Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw | |
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| Directed by | Pierre DeCelles |
| Written by | Jim Carlson Terrence McDonnell |
| Based on | Pound Puppies Tonka |
| Produced by | Donald Kushner Peter Locke Diana Dru Botsford |
| Starring | Brennan Howard B. J. Ward Nancy Cartwright Tony Longo |
| Edited by | John Blizek |
| Music by | Richard Kosinski Sam Winans Bill Reichenbach Jr. Ashley Hall Bob Mann |
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| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| 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.