A Dog of Flanders

The film is set in Belgium. The place is Antwerp and the villages around it. The time is the nineteenth century. Nello is a small boy. He has no parents and lives with his grandfather. The two of them live poorly. They make their living selling milk. They carry it on a cart they pull by hand. One day they find a dog on the road. The animal has been badly treated. They take it in and care for it. Nello has a dream. He wants to be a great painter. A painter notices him and shows him the way. But his grandfather’s death puts everything on hold. David Ladd and Donald Crisp take the leads. The film was adapted from a novel by Ouida and James B. Clark finished it in 1959.