All Dogs Go to Heaven - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[harry]

The first Don Bluth film to have a PG rating in the UK.

[edgar]

As production neared completion, the studio held test screenings and decided that some of the scenes were too intense for younger viewers, so they had to be cut. Don Bluth owned a private 35-mm print of the movie with the cut-out scenes and planned to convince Goldcrest Films on releasing a director's cut of the film after returning from Ireland in the mid-1990s, but the print was eventually stolen from Bluth's locked storage room, diminishing hopes of this version being released on home media.

[steve]

The book on Charlie's life reads Charlie B. Barkin September 13, 1937 mostly German Shepard but also part collie, part great Dane and part retriever in short a bit of a mutt. the rest is difficult to make out but may mention how he doesn't have much goodness or loyalty, tends to be on the greedy side, but a small section does mention strong love. This possibly foreshadows his change from bad to good, Director Don Bluth was coincidentally born in the year 1937.

[melinda]

The film's title came from a book read to Don Bluth's fourth grade class in school, and he resisted suggestions to change it, stating he liked how "provocative" it sounded, and how people reacted to the title alone.

[richard]

The earliest idea for the film was conceived by Don Bluth after finishing work on The Secret of NIMH (1982). The treatment was originally about a canine private eye, and one of three short stories making up an anthology film. The character of a shaggy German Shepherd was designed specifically with Burt Reynolds in mind for the role. However, Bluth's first studio, Don Bluth Productions, was going through a period of financial difficulty, ultimately having to declare bankruptcy, and the idea never made it beyond rough storyboards.

[phyllis]

The movie's title is derived from a quote by Robert Louis Stevenson: "You think those dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you they will be there long before any of us."

[ruby]

This was Judith Barsi's final film. She and her mother were murdered by Barsi's father a year and a half before the film's release. The ending theme, "Love Survives," is dedicated to Barsi's memory.

[duane]

Don Bluth: [children] Anne-Marie is an orphan.

[leo]

Don Bluth: [important object] Charlie's watch.

[ava]

Anne-Marie's appearance is based off of Snow White from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

[phyllis]

Charlie's use of the word "damn" was cut out of the film though Burt Reynolds does recall recording the actual line.

[beth]

When Charlie and Itchie come into the track at the beginning of the movie, the bowl that Charlie picks up to fill up with dog biscuits has part of the name of his voice actor ("Burt").

[duane]

The film was inspired by It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Little Miss Marker (1934) and A Guy Named Joe (1943).

[sylvia]

The first scene with the alligator led to the trope of the "Big-Lipped Alligator Moment." It's a scene that happens out of nowhere with no build-up, does not fit the context, does not advance the plot, and is never mentioned again. Some people don't consider the scene a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment because the alligator appears later in the movie to kill Carface off-screen.

[jessica]

The sixth animated film to have completed scenes cut prior to release after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Animal Farm (1954), The Lord of the Rings (1978), The Plague Dogs (1982), and The Black Cauldron (1985).

[lonnie]

On the soundtrack version of "Let Me Be Surprised", Charlie says "Damn that Carface, I'll kill him!" The "damn" was removed from the movie, though Charlie still mouths the word.

[scarlett]

The totem pole trench that Charlie, Itchy, and Anne-Marie perform in the movie is one of the most widely-recognized examples of this said trope in pop culture, along with the one that is performed in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

[stephanie]

During the scene where Charlie is almost shot by Carface, he and Anne-Marie pass by "Bluth's Bakery" - a reference to director Don Bluth.

[chad]

Vic Tayback's last film, following his death in 1990.